AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA
CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY
CONTAINING BRIEF SKETCHES AND STEEL ENGRAVINGS
OF
CANADA'S PROMINENT MEN
VOLUME I
CANADIAN PRESS SYNDICATE,
MONTREAL AND TORONTO,
1904
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Alexander, Charles 52
Allan, Andrew A 67
Allan, Bryce James 68
Allan, Hugh Andrew 29
Allan, Sir H. Montagu 16
Angus, R. B 9
Archambeault, Hon. Horace, L.L.L., LL.D., K.C. 30
Armstrong, Charles Newhou.se 93
Bagg, Robert Stanley 72
Bickerdike, Robert 43
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie 10
Bowie, Robert 32
Brosseau, Toussaint 69
Brown, Albert Joseph 101
Carbray, Felix 96
Carsley, Samuel 26
Carsley, William Francis 76
Chase-Casgrain, Hon. Thomas 21
Christie, Robert Jaffray 92
Christie, The late William Mellis 91
Cox, Edward Wm 44
Cox, Frederick George 41
Cox, Hon. George Albertus 7
Craik, Robert, M.D., LL.D 77
Crathern, James 20
Dawes.J. P 81
Dexter, David 39
Drumrnond, George Edward 12
Drummond, Thomas J 60
Drumrnond, Dr. William Henry 42
Dundonald, Earl of 74
Dunton, R. A., B.C.L., N.F 99
Dwight, Harvey Prentice 31
Edye, Lieut. -Colonel 49
Evans, Alfred Bickerton 87
Forget, Hon. Senator L. J 38
Forget, Rodolphe • • • • 4°
Foster, George G., K.C 56
Gildersleeve, Charles Fuller 61
Gouin, Hon. Lomer, K.C 28
Hanson, Edwin 108
Hanson, William 107
Hays, Charles Melville 5
Hersey, Randolph 58
Hickson, Sir Joseph 78
Hodgson, Arthur J 22
Holt, Charles M, K.C, LL.D 54
Hoskin, John P.. K.C., LL.D 27
Hosmer, Charles Rudolph 13
Jette, Hon. Sir Louis Amable 3
Jones, Hon. Lyman Melvin '9
Laporte, Hormisdas 4$
Laurier, The Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid 2
Macdonald, John 64
Macpherson, William Molson 98
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Mackenzie, Hector 102
Marshall, Noel George Lambert 23
Martin, Jean Baptiste 82
McArthur, Alex 66
McCorkell, Hon. John Charles, K.C 24
McEachran, Duncan McNab 57
McLennan, Bartlett 34
McLennan, Hugh 33
Meighen, Robert 109
Moore, Samuel John 84
Morrice, David 75
Morrice, David, jr 85
Morrice, William J 90
Morris, John Lang, K.C 50
Mulock, I Ion. Sir William 8
Murray, James Peter 89
Murray, John Alexander 53
Murray, The late William Allan 88
Owens, Hon. William 17
Parent, Hon. S. N 6
Parker, Robert 70
Paton, Hugh 46
Paul, Frank 103
Pelletier, Sir C. Alphonse P 51
Pelletier, Hon. L. P 1 8
Prefontaine, Hon. Raymond Fournier, B.C. L., K.C. 15
Rainville, Hon. Henri B /i
Ramsay, Alexander 65
Robertson, George Ross 105
Rogers, Elias 62
Holland, Hon. Jean Damien 79
Ross, Hon. George William 63
Sadler, George Walter 80
Sclater, Charles Page 106
Shaughnessy, Sir Thomas G 4
Sifton, Hon. Clifford 1 1
Sise, Charles Fleetford 47
Smith, R. Wilson 59
Smilhers, The late C. F 94
Smithers, George Hampden 95
Stairs, John Fitzwilliam 86
Stewart, Duncan M 104
Strathcona and Mount Royal, Lord I
Sutherland, Hon. James 14
Taschereau, Louis Alexandre 25
Thompson, Frederick William 97
Torrance, John 35
Turgeon, Hon. Adelard 37
Turner, Hon. Richard 36
Watson, Hugh 45
Weber, Frederick John 83
Williams, Herbert Hale ?3
Wiser, John Philip
Wyman, William Henry . . 100
PREFACE.
Within this volume will he found engravings from
steel and brief biographical sketches of some of the men
who have helped to make and are making of Canada at
the present moment a great country within itself. Only
a few names can be presented within each volume,
others w'ill follow as the engravings and sketches can
be gathered by our staff. There has been no attempt
at fulsomeness nor undue eulogy. Many of the sketches
are brief, much briefer than we might have wished as
the subjects were worthy of more space, but the matter
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lowed to use. Newspapers will generally find here
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Syndicate.
In preparing a work of this character there are
many perplexing delays and disappointments. It is a
difficult task to secure material for a sketch from a
busy and, at the same time, careless man ; it is often
harder to persuade him to allow us the use of a steel
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method of reproducing a photograph ; it is then difficult
to get him to pass upon the sketch, or to approve or
correct the printer's proof, and often these things are
entirely omitted through sheer inability to get it attend-
ed to; but in the face of nil obstacles it is our purpose
to persevere in this work until it represents the Domi-
nion as a whole, and will be, as this volume indicates,
the best work of its class ever undertaken in Canada
or to our knowledge in any other country. There have
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minion, some of them very creditable, and to them we
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THE CANADIAN PRESS SYNDICATE.
LORD STRATHCONA AND MOUNT ROYAL.
The Right Honorable Sir Donald Alexander Smith,
first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, High Com-
missioner for Canada in London, was born at Archie-
ston, Morayshire, in 1820, his father being the late
Alexander Smith. After receiving a sound business
education at the local school in Archieston, the future
peer, at the age of eighteen, entered the service of
the Hudson Bay Company, which has proved the road
to fortune of so many young Scotsmen. The first
post he was assigned to was in Labrador, and he spent
no less than 13 years in that inhospitable region.
Thence he was removed to the Great Northwest, then
known as the District of Ruperts Land, and be has
been intimately identified with the development of that
vast region ever since. Before the transfer of the Dis-
trict of Ruperts Land to the Dominion of Canada he
had attained the position of Chief Factor and Resident
Governor of the Hudson Bay Company in Canada.
His judgment, tact, and influence, with the half-breeds
was used to great advantage at the time of the Red
River troubles of 1869 and 1870, and his efforts had
much to do with the pacification of the people. After
the organization of the Province of Manitoba and the
setting apart of the remainder of Ruperts Land as the
Northwest Territory, he was elected to the first Mani-
toba Legislature for Winnipeg and St. John, and was
also appointed to the Northwest Territorial Council.
At the fVst Manitoba elections for the Dominion House
of Commons, he was returned as member for Selkirk
in the Conservative interest. At the time of the Paci-
fic Scandrl in 1873, he left his party and became a
Liberal, but when Sir John A. Macdonald was again
returned to power in 1878 he gave the Conservative
Government his independent support. He resigned
his seat in the Manitoba Legislature in 1878, but re-
presented Selkirk at Ottawa until 1880, when he was
defeated. Having, in the meantime, taken up his
residence in Montreal, Mr. Smith was in 1887 returned
to the House of Commons for Montreal West, repre-
senting that constituency until April, 1896, being then
appointed High Commissioner for Canada at London
and sworn of the Canadian Privy Council. Lord
Strathcona's name was very prominently connected
with the carrying out of that great national project,
the Canadian Pacific Railway. His Lordship, not
only gave the scheme powerful financial support, but
by his pluck, energy and personal knowledge of the
then new Northwest, did perhaps more than any other
single man to secure its successful accomplishment.
In acknowledgment of his services to the Dominion
Mr. Smith was created K.C.M.G. in 1886, and in 1896
he received promotion in the order, receiving the dis-
tinction of G.C.M.G., and having the additional honor
of personal investment at Windsor Castle. At the
time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Her Late
Majesty raised Sir Donald to the peerage with the
title of Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal of Glen-
coe in the County of Argyll, and of Montreal, Que.
Lord Strathcona became Vice-President of the
Bank of Montreal in 1882 and President in 1887. Tie
also was elected Chancellor of McGill University in
1889. He holds high office in many commercial,
charitable and patriotic organizations in England,
Scotland and Canada, and was gazetted Honorary
Lieut.-Colonel of the 3rd Victoria Rifles, Montreal,
1898. At the time of the South African War. he-
raised, equipped, and despatched to the front, at bis
own expense, a splendid regiment of irregular horse
recruited in the Northwest and known as Strathcona
Horse.
He has been a generous patron of art and a prince-
ly contributor to the funds of educational and charit-
able institutions. Tn 1887. he, with Lord Mount
Stephen, gave $i. 00x3,000 for the establishment and
endowment of the Roval Victoria Hospital, Montreal,
in honor of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, a further dona-
tion of $800,000 for maintenance being made in 1896.
His donations to McGill University, Montreal, amount
to $500,000. Cambridge and Yale conferred upon
him the degree of LL.D. in 1887, and 1892. While
residing in the Northwest Lord Strathcona married
Isabella, daughter of the late Richard Hardisty, of the
Hudson Bav service.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR WILFRID LAURIER.
The Right Honorable Sir Wilfrid Laurier G.C.
M.G., P.C., etc., Prime Minister of Canada, was born
at St. Lin, Que., November 2Oth, 1841, the son of the
late Carolus Laurier, P.L.S., by his first wife, Marcelle
Martineau. After receiving an elementary education
at the mixed school in his native parish, young Wilfrid
Laurier took a full classical course at L'Assomption
College, which has been the Alma Mater of an excep-
tionally large number of the most eminent public men
of the province of Quebec. In 1860, he entered upon
the study of law in the office, in Montreal, of the late
Hon. K. Larlamme, Q.C., afterwards Minister of Jus-
tice of Canada, and for some time one of his ministerial
colleagues. Concurrently with his office training he
followed the law course at McGill University, graduat-
ing with the degree of 1S.C.L. in 1864, and being called
to the liar in 1805. During bis student days, the
future Prime .Minister gave abundant evidence of that
lofty principle and exceptional oratorical ability, which
have been such marked characteristics of his public
career, and have been so largely responsible for his
present pre-eminent position in the Dominion. lie
practised his profession in Montreal with conspicuous
success for three years, at the same time interesting
himself in polities and journalism. As a young man
he suffered from delicate health, and the amount of
exertion to which his active mind subjected his feeble
frame caused a physical collapse. Under stringent
medical orders he retired from his promising profes-
sional practice in the metropolis, with its own exac-
tions and the various collateral distractions his ener-
getic temperament had drawn him into, and moved to
a quiet country place, L'Avenir. in the Eastern
Townships, where he found recreative occupation in
the editorial management of "Le Defricheur."
a Reform paper, previously conducted by |.
P>. E. Dorion, popularly known throughout the
province of Quebec as " L'Enfant Terrible."
The removal of the delicate young lawyer
from the turmoil of the city to the fresh
air and quiet of the country had the desired effect.
He still retained the instinct for his chosen profession,
and upon his restoration to health he opened a law
office at St. Christophe, now Arthabaska, which had
been created the chef-lien of the then new judicial dis-
trict of Drummond and Arthabaska. His private re-
sidence has remained in Arthabaska ever since". Pos-
sessed to a remarkable extent of the faculty of close
and systematic study, and with a marked gift as a per-
suasive pleader, the embryo statesman soon earned an
enviable place for himself at the P,ar. In 1880, he
was created a Q.C., and later, he was appointed to the
Royal Commission nominated to revise the Code of
Civil Procedure of the Province of Quebec.
In politics Sir Wilfrid Laurier has always been a
Liberal, at first a Liberal of the old school, which in-
cluded such men as Dorion, Laflamme and Holton ;
but, later, describing himself as " a Liberal of the Eng-
lish School," a pupil of Charles James Fox, Daniel
O'Connell and William Ewart Gladstone. His stu-
dious habits have had no less an influence- upon Sir
Wilfrid Lander's political life than upon his career at
the liar. Anyone who listens or reads the Prime Min-
ister's speeches is at once impressed with his thorough
knowledge of English literature in its widest range,
and particularly with his familiarity with the political
and constitutional history of Great Britain. It is very
doubtful whether any English-speaking member of the
Canadian House of Commons is the equal of Sir Wil-
frid Laurier in these respects.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier was first elected to public office
in 1871, being returned to the Quebec Legislature by
a majority of one thousand over E. J. Hemming, Con-
servative. In 1874 he resigned his seat and was re-
turned to the House of Commons by the same consti-
tuency. In seconding the address in reply he delivered
a speech which at once put upon him the stamp of a
parliamentarian of the first rank. November, 1876, he
entered the Mackenzie Administration as Minister of
Inland Revenue, but was defeated on appealing to his
constituents for re-election. He was at once, however,
re-elected for Quebec East, and has represented that
constituency continuously ever since. From 1878,
when the 'Mackenzie Administration was defeated at
the polls, until 1896, when the Conservative Adminis-
tration of Sir Charles Tupper met defeat, Sir Wilfrid
Laurier sat in the front row of the Opposition benches,
for the last nine years of the period being leader of the
( )pposition. Being called upon to form a government,
.Mr. Laurier was sworn into office as president of the
Privy Council, July, 1896, and four days later finished
his task of forming a cabinet. Conspicuous among
the events of the Prime Minister's official life was his
visit to England at the time of Queen Victoria's Dia-
mond Jubilee in 1897, his powerful oratory and splen-
did personality attracting world-wide attention and
challenging universal admiration. While in England
he was sworn of the Imperial Privy Council, appointed
a G.C.M.G. and honored with degrees by both Oxford
and Cambridge Universities. Crossing to the Con-
tinent, Sir Wilfrid was appointed a Grand Officer of
the Legion of Honor by the President of France, and
received at the Vatican by the Pope. Upon his return
to Canada, Sir Wilfrid was accorded public receptions
in all the chief cities, and Toronto University and
Queen's University, Kingston, conferred upon him the
degree of L L.D.
From 1869 to 1898 Sir Wilfrid Laurier served as
ensign in the Arthabaskaville Infantry Company, and,
being on active service during the Fenian Raids of
1870, received the service medal. Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier was married May I3th, .1868, to Miss Zoe Lafon-
taine, of Montreal, who, posessing a goodly amount of
woman's tact, judgment and devotion, has contributed
not a little to the success of the distinguished states-
man's public career.
HON. SIR LOUIS AMABLE JETTE.
The Honorable Sir Louis Amablc Jette, K.C.M.G.,
K.C., LL.D., etc., was born at L'Assomption, Quo.,
January I5th, 1836, his parents being Amable Jette,
formerly a merchant of L'Assomption, P.Q., and Caro-
line Gauffreau, whose grand father was a San Do-
mingo planter. He was educated at L'Assomption
College, being a fellow student there with the Right
Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, studied law after his gradu-
ation and was called to the liar in 1857 taking up
practice in Montreal. A sound student and capable-
pleader, the young lawyer soon established a good
clientele and he came prominently to the front at the
time of the celebrated Guibord Burial case, he being
counsel for the Seminary of St. Sulpice. It was but
natural that such a hard student as Mr. Jette showed
himself to be, during the days of his practice at the
Bar, should identify himself with legal literature, and
we find him becoming editor of "La Revue Critique
de Legislation et de Jurisprudence du Canada," and
a correspondent of "La Revue de Droit International
de Gand (Belgium)." In 1887, he was named one
of the commissioners for the revision of the Quebec
Code of Civil Procedure and published conjointly with
his fellow commissioners, in 1888, "Observations re-
lative au Code de Precedure Civile," which is the
standard review of the Judicial system and Procedures
Acts of the Province of Quebec. His natural incli-
nation to letters, and his earnest principles as a Liberal
led him for a time into political journalism, and for
some months he was editor of "L'Ordre"
In his practice at the Bar, he was much respected
by the members of the profession, and for a time he
was Treasurer of the Bar Association. He was
called to the Bench as a Puisne Judge of the Superior
Court, September 2nd, 1878, and the same year ap-
pointed Professor of Civil Law in Laval University,
Montreal, and had conferred upon him the degree of
LL.D. He subsequently became Dean of the Fac-
ulty. He is also a member of the Financial Syndi-
cate of the above University and was from 1878 to
1898 a member of the Provincial Council of Public In-
struction. He has, in fact, always taken much inter-
est in educational matters, and in 1886 the students
and professors of Laval University presented him with
an address and purse by way of an acknowledgement
of his efforts on behalf of this institution. In 1891,
he presided over the Royal Commission, appointed to
conduct an inquiry into the ISaie des Chaleurs Railway
matter, presenting a minority report of special force.
January 2Oth, 1898, he was appointed Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor of the Province of Quebec, and re-appointed to
a second term in 1903. In .March, 1903. he was ap-
pointed one of the liritish Commissioners, represent-
ing Canada on the Alaska Boundary Commission,
which sat in London, and he. with his associate Ca-
nadian Commissioner, presented a written protest
against the finding of the Commission which com-
manded world-wide attention. Sir Louis [ette had
quite a notable political record before ascending the
Bench. He was first returned to the House of Com-
mons in 1872 for Montreal East, defeating Sir George
E. Cartier by upwards of 1,200 votes, and held the
seat until appointed Judge.
In April, 1862, Sir Louis Jette married Berthe,
(laughter of Toussaint Larlamme, Montreal, sister of
the late Hon. Rodolphe Laflamme, who was Minister
of Justice in the AlacKenzie Administration. One
of their daughters is the wife of the Hon. Rodolphe
Lemieux, Solicitor-General in the Laurier Govern-
ment.
SIR THOMAS G. SHAUGHNESSY.
Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy, president of the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway, has an enviable reputation as a
railway man. which is not confined to Canada, but
extends over the length and breadth of America. His
native place was .Milwaukee, Wis., where lie was
born of Irish parents, October 6, 1853. Born with-
out influence, he has to thank his own energy and
perseverance for his advancement. His parents gave
him a good common school education, and he started
in life in a subordinate position in the purchasing
department of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway, July, 1860,. His seriousness and general
capacity did not long await recognition, and he gained
steady promotion in the purchasing department of the
road, until January, 1873. when he was appointed to
the responsible position of general store keeper of that
great system. In this position his sound judgment
and great capacity for work attracted the attention of
Mr. W. C. Van Home, now Sir Win. C. Van Home,
and when that gentleman assumed the herculean task
of the organization and management of the Canadian
Pacific Railway in 1882, and he cast about for reliable
and capable lieutenants, he picked upon Air.
Shaughnessy as one of them, and brought him to
Montreal as general purchasing agent of the then new
Trans-Continental road. Mr. Shaughnessy soon
showed himself a power on the staff of the big com-
pany, and within two years after he assumed office in
the service, he was appointed assistant to the general
manager. In 1885, the responsibilities and functions
of his office were extended and its designation changed
to assistant general manager. In June, 1891, he was
elected a director and vice-president of the C. P. R.,
and upon the retirement of Sir William from the posi-
tion of president of the company, Mr. Shaughnessy
was selected to succeed him, and has discharged the
responsible duties of that high office with marked
ability. In recognition of his services to the C. P. R.
and to Canada, Mr. Shaughnessy was knighted in
i (jo i. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, besides being presi-
dent or director of various allied railway companies,
such as the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic, the
Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railways, the B. C.
Southern Railway, the Montreal and Western Rail-
way, etc., he is also a director of the Royal Trust
Company, Montreal, and a governor of the Royal
Victoria Hospital.
The power wielded by Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway is fairly
tremendous. To-day the Canadian Pacific Railway
stands unrivalled as the greatest transportation com-
pany in the world. Owner of ten thousand miles of
railway track, and sixty inland and ocean-going
steamers,. it carries goods and passengers not only from
one end of Canada to the other, but also from the
crowded cities of Europe to the utmost limits of the
Far East, without transhipment to another flag.
CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS.
Charles Melville Hays was born at Rock Island,
III., May 16, 1856. He entered the railway service
Nov. loth, 1873, as a clerk in the passenger depart-
ment of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, in St. Louis.
He worked successively in the Auditor's and General
Superintendent's offices until 1877, when he became
Secretary to the General Manager of the Missouri
Pacific. In 1884, he took a similar position with the
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific, becoming Assistant Gen-
eral Manager of that road in 1886. In July, 1887, he
was appointed General Manager of the Wabash West-
ern, and later, of the Consolidated Wabash System,
becoming Vice-President and General Manager in
1894. During this period was Director of the Chi-
cago & Western Indiana, R.R. ; Belt Railway, of Chi-
cago ; Detroit Union R R. & Station Co. ; Hannibal
Union Station Co. ; Keokuk Union Station Co. ; Kan-
sas City Union Station Co. ; Terminal R.R. Associa-
tion of St. Louis, of which Company he was also
Chairman of the Executive Committee. Represented
the Wabash Railroad in Western Traffic As-
sociation, Central Traffic Association, and on the
Joint Traffic Association. On January 1st,
1896, he became General Manager of the Grand
Trunk Railway System, which office he relin-
quished on January ist, 1901, to become President
of the Southern Pacific Railway, retiring from that
office the latter part of lyoi to return to the Grand
Trunk Railway System as Second Vice-President and
General Manager. Is President of the Central Ver-
mont Railway ; Grand Trunk Western Railway ; De-
troit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway ; Toledo,
Saginaw & Muskegon Railway ; Michigan Air Line
Railway ; Chicago, Detroit & Canada Grand Trunk
Junction Railroad ; Detroit & Toledo Shore Line ;
Canadian Express Company ; St. Clair Tunnel Com-
pany ; International Bridge Company ; Montreal
Warehousing Company ; Portland Elevator Company,
and New England Elevator Company. Mr. Hays
also represents the Grand Trunk Western Railway
as Director of the Chicago & Western Indiana R.R.,
and licit Railway ot Chicago.
RON, & N. PARENT.
The Honorable Simon Napoleon Parent, Premier
of the Province of Quebec, was born at Beauport, near
the City of Quebec, September I2th, 1855, n's parents
being Simon Pqlycarpe Parent, merchant, and Luce
Belanger, his wife. He obtained his primary educa-
tion by studying at Laval Normal School and private
tuition, then entering the faculty of Law of Laval
University, graduating with the degree of L.L.L.,
cum laude, and winning the Lome Gold Medal and the
Tessier Prize. He was called to the P>ar in 1881, and
has successfully practiced in Quebec ever since. In
the profession he holds quite an enviable position as a
sound business lawyer, and the firm of which he is
the head has the largest practice in the Ancient Capi-
tal.
Mr. Parent's very active and useful public career
may be said to date from his election as an alderman
to the Quebec City Council in 1890. At the general
elections the same year he was returned to the Pro-
vincial Legislature for St. Sauveur in the Liberal in-
terest. He has sat in the Quebec City Council ever
since, during the past ten years as Mayor. Coinci-
dent with Mr. Parent's long period of office in the
mayoralty there has been a remarkable renewal of com-
mercial and industrial activity in Quebec, and a mark-
ed improvement in the appearance of the city.
Streets have been widened and permanently paved,
public parks acquired, public buildings have been con-
structed, City Hall, Theatre, the methods of the vari-
ous municipal services modernized, and an efficient
rapid transit system installed. And all of this has
been accomplished without imposing any appreciable
additional burden of taxation upon the ratepayers. In
fact, Mr. Parent has gained for himself the reputa-
tion of being a progressive, yet cautious mayor, and his
exceptional record as a wise municipal administrator
has had much to do with his rapid advancement in the
field of provincial politics. Was re-elected alderman
1 5th February, 1904, and was re-elected for the
sixth term (12 years,) on the first day of March, 1904.
He was re-elected to the Legislature from St.
Sauveur in 1892, 1897 and 1900. He was called to
the Marchand administration as Minister of Crown
Lands, May 2oth, 1897, and upon the death of Premier
Marchand, September 251)1, 1900, he was summoned
by the Lieutenant-Governor to form an administra-
tion, and he has been Premier of the Province of Que-
bec ever since. He also holds the portfolio of Min-
istr of Lands, Mines and Fisheries. His administra-
tion of the affairs of the Province has been character-
ized by scrupulous economy. October I7th, 1877,
Mr. Parent married Marie Louise Clara, daughter of
Ambroise Gendron, timber inspector of Beauport.
He is also the President of the Quebec Bridge and
Railway Company, which will be the largest Cantilever
Bridge of the world.
HON. GEORGE ALBERTUS COX.
Senator Cox's connection with the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railrvvay and numerous other enterprises makes
him one of the most prominent figures in Canadian
public life to-day. He is of English decent, his family
having migrated to the United States from the Mother
Land in 1810. Eight years later they removed to Can-
ada, first taking up land in I'rince Edward and after-
wards in Northumberland County, Out. He is the son
of Edward W. Cox by his wife Jane Tanner, and was
born at Colborne, Out., May 7th, 1840. Educated there
he commenced life as an operator in the service of the
Montreal Telegraph Company. After two years spent
in its office in his native town he was sent, .May, 1858,
to take charge of the Peterborough office, where he
lived for thirty years and is still largely interested in its
prosperity. He continues to use unabated interest in
everything that contributes to the welfare of his old
home, which is now one of the most prosperous and
progressive towns in Ontario, taking an active part in
the direction of the Canadian General Electric Com-
pany, the Peterborough Lock Company and other local
organizations. The young agent speedily asserted his
individuality and took an active part in the municipal,
educational and commercial interesets of Peterborough.
For seven years he was mayor, being successful three
times in contested elections and four times he was elec-
ted by acclamation. In 1871 Mr. Cox stepped from the
municipal into the political field and contested the rid-
ing of West Peterborough for the legislature, with the
late W. H. Scott. He won the fight, but the election
was set aside and in the following year he was defeat*
ed by Mr. Scott by a majority of one. In 1887 Mr.
Cox contested the same riding for the House of Com-
mons, with Mr. James Stevenson. He was again de-
feated, but the majority was only sixteen.
Mr. Cox soon became interested in enterprises of
interest to the country at large and in 1878 became
President of the Midland Railway at the request of the
creditors of the Company, which at the time was in
financial difficulties. During the term of his presidency
the road was placed in first-class condition, new rolling
stock provided and four other railways amalgamated
with the Midland system. The consolidated sys-
tem was afterwards sold to the Grand Trunk Railway,
at which time the securities were worth more than par
although when Mr. Cox assumed the management the
first mortgage bonds were selling at seventeen cents on
the dollar. This was the most important financial
event up to that time in Mr. Cox's career, and its suc-
cess was no doubt the foundation of his fortune. .He
was also a member of the 1 lowland Syndicate which
offered to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
In 1884 Mr. Cox founded the Central Canada Loan
and Savings Company, becoming its first 1 'resident,
which office he still retains. In 1885 he became a direc-
tor of the Canadian ISank of Commerce and President
in 1890, still retaining that important office. He is also
President of the Canada Life Assurance Company,
having beeen closely identified with its interests since
1861 ; is President of the Western Assurance Com-
pany, the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company and the ISri-
tish American Assurance Company, and, is also inter-
ested in and closely identified with a number of other
large companies, among them being the National
Trust, the Dominion Iron and Steel, and the Domi-
nion Coal companies.
A Liberal in politics Mr. Cox was called to the Sen-
ate of Canada in November, 1896, by the Earl of
Aberdeen.
Senator Cox is a staunch supporter of the Metho-
dist Church and in conjunction with the Rev. Dr. Potts
is Treasurer of Victoria University, in which institu-
tion he has established a Chair in New Testament
Exegesis and yearly donatees a gold medal for Natural
Science. He is also a member of the Trustee Board of
Toronto University.
Mr. Cox is a member of the Toronto and National
Clubs. In 1862 he married Margaret, youngest daugh-
ter of Daniel Hopkins, of Peterborough.
HON. SIR WILLIAM MULOCFL
The Honourable Sir William Mulock, M.A.,
LL.D., K.C., P.C., Toronto, Member of the House
of Comonms of Canada, for North York, and Post-
master General for the Dominion of Canada, was born
at Bond Head, Ontario, January I9th, 1843. His
father was the late Thomas Homan Mulock, a member
of the Royal College of Surgeons, a native of King's
County, Ireland, and his mother was Mary, daughter
of the late John Cawthra, of Yorkshire, England.
Sir William was educated -at Newmarket Grammar
School and at Toronto University, graduating with
the degree of M.A., and gaining the gold medal for
modern languages in 1863. In 1871 he took the de-
gree of M.A., and in 1894, received the honoru-y de-
gree of L.L.D.
Choosing the law as his profession, he was called
to the Bar of Ontario in 1868, and soon won an envi-
able position as a thorough, painstaking and forceful
lawyer. In 1890 he was appointed Queen's Counsel,
at that time being head of the leading law firm of Mul-
ock, Miller, Thomson and Lee, Toronto. He wa.s
for four years Examiner in and Lecturer on Equity
for the Law Society of Ontario. In 1873 he was
elected a Senator of Toronto University', and has
served his Alma Mater in that responsible capacity up
to the present time, and with great benefit to the 'Uni-
versity. In 1881 lie was elected to the honorable po-
sition of Vice-Chancellor of the University, and was
continuously re-elected until 1900 when he resigned,
owing to the pressure of other public duties. A per-
petual reminder of his intelligent activity in the in-
terest of the University is the William Nlulock schol-
arship in Mathematics, founded by him.
A staunch Liberal, he, from early manhood, mani-
fested a keen interest in political affairs, and did a
great deal of hard work for his party. At the Gen-
eral Elections of 1882 he was returned to the House
of Commons for North York, and has represented the
Constituency ever since. During the time the Lib-
eral Party was in opposition he was recognized as one
of the most consistent and effective critics of the Gov-
ernment of the day, and after success of the Liberal
Party at the General Elections of 1896 his selection
as a member of the new Laurier administration was
regarded as a foregone conclusion. When the Cabi-
net was formed July I3th, he was given the portfolio
of Postmaster General, and he has shown himself a
most progressive Minister. In 1898 he introduced
into Parliament his famous measure, empowering the
Governor General in Council to reduce domestic post-
age from three cents to two cents an ounce At the
same time he announced his belief in the principle of
Imperial Penny Postage, and he was in course of time
largely instrumental in securing the practical adoption
of that principle.
As a result of his efforts an Imperial Postal Con-
vention was held in London, England, in July, 1898,
meet'n He m°Ved the following
u " That it is advisable, in the interests of the Brit-
Empire that the rate of postage for the con-
veyance of letters (other than inland letters)
throughout the entire extent of the Empire, be re-
" duced from the present rate of twopence halfpenny
'• per half ounce to one penny."
This Resolution was carried by a small majority,
being opposed by the seven Australian Colonies and
New Zealand, whose representatives withdrew from
the Conference, leaving the countries favouring the
reduction to work out the scheme. Thereupon, he
arranged with the Imperial Government that as the
first step towards giving effect to the reduction the
penny rate as between the United Kingdom and Can-
ada should go into effect on Christmas Day, 1898.
The reduction accordingly took effect on that date.
Subsequently other portions of the Empire came into
the arrangements, and to-day the penny rate obtains
between Canada and every part of the Empire, except
Australia, and even as to Australia the rate from Can-
ada to the Commonwealth has been reduced to the
penny rate although as yet the Commonwealth has
not yet made the corresponding reduction on its letters
to Canada. A week after the inauguration of this
Inter-Imperial Penny rate in Canada, namely on the
first January, 1899, the Canadian domestic letter rate,
and also the Canadian rate on letters to the United
Stages, was reduced to two cents per ounce. The re-
sult of these reductions has been accompanied by a
large increase in the postal revenue of Canada.
He was sent as a delegate to represent the Domin-
ion of Canada at the inauguration of the first Parlia-
ment of the Commonwealth of Australia, June, 1901,
and was also one of the Canadian representatives at
the Coronation of King Edward VII. at London dur-
ing the summer of 1902. At the Colonial Confer-
ence at London at that time he moved and secured the
adoption of the following Resolution, respecting
newspaper postal rates : —
" That it is advisable to adopt the principle of
" cheap postage between the different parts of the
" British Empire on all newspapers and periodicals
"published therein, and the Prime Ministers desire to
" draw the attention of His Alajesty's Government to
" the question of a reduction in the outgoing rate."
" They consider that each Government should be
" allowed to determine the amount to which it may
'' reduce such rate and the time for such reduction go-
" ing into effect."
The Canadian Post Office Department made appli-
cation to every part of the Empire for consent to a re-
duction in newspaper rates. Most of the Govern-
ments have given their consent and in consequence
the Canadian domestic rate upon newspapers carries
Canadian papers to the following portions of the Em-
pire : — United Kingdom, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermu-
da, British Honduras, Ceylon, Cyprus, Falkland Is-
lands, Gambia, Hong Kong, Leeward Islands (in-
cluding Antigua, &c.), New Zealand, Sarawak, Sierra
Leone, Transvaal, Turks Islands, Zanzibar.
Sir William Mulock was married in May, 1870, to
Sarah, eldest daughter of the late James Crowther,
Toronto, and their family consists of four children,
namely :— William Mulock, Edith May, wife of Mac-
Dowall Thomson, Ethel, wife of Arthur Kirkpatrick,
and Cawthra Mulock.
Sir William Mulock is a member of the Toronto
Club, and the Rideau Club, Ottawa.
He was created a K.C.M.G. the 26th June, 1902.
R. B. ANGUS.
Mr. R. B. Angus, Montreal, capitalist, was horn at
Bathgate, near Edinburgh, Scotland, May, 28, 1831.
At an early age he left Scotland and entered the ser-
vice of the Manchester and Liverpool bank, lie
came to Montreal in 1857, and took a position on
the staff of the Hank of Montreal. He advanced
steadily in the service of Canada's chief bank-
ing institution, and in 1862 took charge of
the Chicago Agency, a few years later pro-
ceeding to New York as one of the agents of
the Bank at that city. From New York he returned
to Montreal as local manager, and in 1869, succeeded
the late E. H. King, as general manager. In 18/9 he
retired from the service of the Hank, in which he had
risen so rapidly to assume a position in the manage-
ment of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Rail-
way. In 1880 he associated himself with Mr. George
Stephen, Mr. Donald A. Smith and others to form the
syndicate for the construction of the Canadian Pacific
Railway. How the great Canadian undertaking was
carried out to completion in 1885 is a matter of na-
tional history. Mr. Angus returned to Montreal to
reside in the year 1881. Has a house in Drummond
Street, and a country home on the Lake of the Two
Mountains, near St. Ann's. Mr. Angus is a generous
patron of art, is an ex- President of the Montreal Art
Association, and has one of the finest private art col-
lections in Canada.
He has devoted considerable time, and with good
effect, to charitable work in Montreal, particularly to
that in connection with the Royal Victoria Hospital,
of which splendid institution he is President. He is
also a director of the Montreal Sailors Institute, and
a past president of the St. Andrews Society. He is
connected officially with McGill University as a mem-
ber of the Board of Governors, is a governor and
ex-president of the Eraser Institute, and a governor of
the Montreal Numisatic and Antiquarian Society.
He is a director of the Bank of Montreal, the Can-
adian Pacific Railway Co., Dominion Coal Co., Domi-
nion Iron and Steel Co., the Dominion Bridge Co., the
Merchants' Manufacturing Company, the Northwest
Land Company, and the London and Lancashire Life
Assurance Company.
Mr. Angus is a member of the St. James and
Mount Royal Clubs, Montreal ; Forest and Stream
Club, Dorval ; Royal St. Lawrence Yach': Club ;
Rideau Club, Ottawa ; Toronto Cl»b, Toronto, and
Manitoba Club, Winnipeg.
SIR MACKENZIE BOWELL.
The Honorable Sir Mackenzie Bowell, K.C.M.G.,
etc., Belleville, Out., was born at Rickinghall, Suffolk,
England, December 271)1, 1823, his father being the
late John ISowell, a carpenter and builder, who emi-
grated to Canada with his young family in 1833. The
subject of this sketch was at the time between nine and
ten years of age. The family settled in Belleville,
Out,, and the year after their arrival, young Mackenzie
Bowell entered the office of the Belleville 'Intelli
gencer' as an apprentice, in the employ of the late
George Benjamin.- The lad was ambitious, and he be-
came in succession, journeyman printer, foreman, edi-
tor-partner and finally proprietor of the 'Intelligencer.'
While gradually and industrously improving his busi-
ness position he found time to devote attention to pub-
lic matters and he attained public influence at a com-
paratively early date. He for several years took an
active interest in local educational matters, and for
eight or ten years was Chairman of the Common
School Board. For two years he sat as Chairman of
the Grammar School Society. He joined the militia
as ensign in the Belleville Rifle Company in 1857, and
was on active service with the corps of observation
stationed on the Amherstburg frontier during the civil
war in the United States in 1864-5, after the St.
Albans Raid. He was also on active service at Pres-
cott at the time of the first Fenian Raid, as Captain of
No. i Company of the 1 5th Battalion. He was pro-
moted to be Major of the 49th upon its organization in
February, 1867, and attained the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel in February, 1872. He retired, retaining rank,
in 1874. At an early age he identified himself with
the Orange Order and beginning with the office of
outside tyler of Benjamin L. O. L. , No. 274, of
Belleville, he has obtained unique distinction in the
order. He passed through the successive stages of
Master, District Master, County Master, Provincial'
Grand Master and Grand Master of British North
America. In 1876, at Londonderry, Ireland, he reach-
ed the top round of the ladder, being elected President
of the Imperial Triennial Council, the highest office
attainable by any Orangeman in the world. He was
for a time Vice-President of the Ontario Agricultural
and Arts Association, and served a term as President
of the Ontario Press Association. It is as a politician
and statesman that Sir Mackenzie Bowell is best
known to the people of Canada. After an unsuccess-
ful attempt in the Conservative interest to capture the
seat for North Hastings in the Canadian Assembly at
the general elections of 1863, he successfully contested
the seat for the House of Commons at the first Domi-
nion general elections in 1867 and held the seat con-
tinuously for a period of twenty-five years, then being
called to the Senate. In 1878 he entered the Cabinet
of Sir John A. Macdonald, holding the portfolio of
Minister of Customs for fourteen years. On the
death of Sir John A. Macdonald, and the formation of
a Cabinet by Sir John Abbott, Mr. Bowell accepted
the portfolio of Minister of Militia, which he held
until Sir John Thompson formed his Cabinet, when
he was transferred to the new department of Trade
and Commerce, holding that portfolio until called
upon after the death of Sir John Thompson, in De-
cember, 1894, to form a Cabinet. The new Premier
became at this time President of the Council. He
retired from the Government on April 2nd, 1896,
and was succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper, Bart.
In 1893 he went on an important trade mission to
Australia, which resulted in the trade conference at
Ottawa the following year. January ist, 1895, he
was appointed a K.C.M.G. He was elected leader
of the Conservative Opposition in the Canadian
Senate August 25th, 1896.
Sir Mackenzie Bowell was elected one of the direc-
tors of the Imperial Life Assurance Company of
Canada at its organization, and has always taken a
deep interest in its welfare. In 1903 he succeeded to
the Presidency, which office he now holds.
December, 1857, he married Harriet Louisa,
eldest daughter of the late Jacob G. Moore, of Belle-
ville, Ont. Mrs. Bowell died in April, 1884. Sir
Mackenzie Bowell is a member of the Albany Club,
Toronto, and the Rideau Club, Ottawa.
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HON. CLIFFORD SIFTON,
The Hon. Clifford Sifton, K.C., Minister of the
Interior, was born in the County of Middlesex, Out.,
March loth, 1861, the son of John W. Sifton, former-
ly Speaker of the Manitoba Assembly, and Catherine
Watkins, his wife. The Siftons are of Irish
descent, and the subject of this sketch posesses in a
marked degree the oratorical force and brilliancy which
is characteristic of the race. Mr. Sifton was educated
at the High School, London, Ont., at the Boys' College,
Dunclas, and at Victoria University, Cobourg, Ont.,
graduating from the last named institution of learning
with the degree of 1>.A., and winning the Prince of
Wales gold medal in 1880. Called to the Manitoba
Bar in 1882, he removed to Brandon, and remained in
practice there until 1896 when he joined the adminis-
tration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier as Minister of the Inte-
rior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs,
which portfolio he still holds. He was created a ( ).C.
by Lord Aberdeen in 1895.
His active political career began with his election to
the Manitoba Legislative Assembly for North I'.ran-
don in 1888. May I4th, 1891, he was called to the
Manitoba Government as Attorney-General in Mr.
Greenway's administration in succession to the Hon.
Joseph Martin. In June, 1893, he was one of the
vice-presidents of the Ottawa Reform Convention.
During Mr. Greenway's illness in 1895, Mr. Sifton was
acting Premier of Manitoba, and in June introduced
in the Legislature the resolution declaring the intention
of Manitoba to refuse to carry out the Order-in-Coun-
cil of the Dominion Government for the re-establishing
of the separate school system in the province. The fol-
lowing February he introduced in the Legislature the
resolutions protesting against the adoption by the
Dominion Parliament of the Manitoba Remedial Bill
then under consideration. He was one of the commis-
sioners named later by the Manitoba Government to
meet delegates appointed by the Dominion Government
to discuss the school question, and he subscribed to the
refusal of the Manitoba Government to accept the Do-
minion Government's demands. In the department
of Provincial legislation his most important work was
the Code of Civil Procedure, which regulates all pro-
cedures in Superior Courts. It is founded upon the
old practice with modifications suggested by the
English Legislature Act. This code greatly siiiiplfies
legal procedure and has proven extremely satisfac-
tory in practice.
After accepting his present portfolio in the Laurier
administration he was returned to the House of Com-
mons by acclamation for I'.randon, which seat he has
held ever since.
As Minister of the Interior he is specially charg-
ed with matter relating to the Government of the
North-West Territories and Yukon Territory and all
unorganized and outlying territories of the Dominion.
In 1898 he introduced and carried through legislation
giving responsible government to the Xorth-West Ter-
ritories. He has expressed the opinion that the imme-
diate settlement of the west is the most important
national duty of Canada, and has accordingly devoted
special attention to the question of immigration. Mr.
Sifton has devoted much serious attention to the de-
velopment of Canada's great mineral reserve in the
Yukon district, and the opening up of that region has
been greatly facilitated by his efforts. He personally
visited the district in 1897, investigating the White and
Chilkoot passes and other routes.
Mr. Sifton was recommended by the Canadian Gov-
ernment and appointed by the British Government to
act as British agent before the Alaska Boundary Tri-
bunal, under treaty of January, 1903. He spent sev-
eral months in London, 1903, superintending the pre-
paration and presentation of the British case.
Mr. Sifton was married, August I4th, 1884, to Eli-
zabeth Anna, daughter of H. T. Burrows, formerly of
Ottawa.
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GEORGE EDWARD DRUMMOND.
Mr. George Edward Drummond, Merchant and
Manufacturer, Montreal, was born in 1858, in the
County of Leitrim, Ireland, being the son of George
Drummond and Elizabeth Soden, his wife. He came
with his parents to Montreal in 1864, his father dying
twelve months later. His mother is still living. Mr.
Drummond was educated in Montreal, and a sound
preliminary business training, in the year 1881, in con-
junction with Mr. James T. McCall and his brother,
Mr. T. J. Drummond, founded the present widely-
known firm of Drummond, McCall & Company, iron
and steel merchants, and founders of the Canada Iron
Furnace Company, Limited, the Montreal Pipe Foun-
dry Company, and other kindred industries. Mr.
Drummond is at present Managing-Director and
Treasurer of the Canada Iron Furnace Company,
Limited, at present operating the plants at Radnor,
Que., and Midland, Ont, and is also a Director of the
Montreal Pipe Foundry Company, the Canadian Iron
and Foundry Company, the Londonderry (N.S.) Iron
and Mining Company, Limited, and the Liverpool
and London and Globe Insurance Company. Mr.
Drummond is recognized as a leading authority on the
Canadian Iron and Steel trade, and has contributed
several widely read articles to technical journals on
the subject. He is well-known in general commercial
circles, at the present time holding the very honorable
positions of President of the Montreal Board of Trade
and President of the Canadian Manufacturers' As-
sociation. To both of which offices he was elected
by acclamation.
Mr. Drummond is an ardent and active Imperialist.
At the 5th Congress of Chambers of Commerce of
the British Empire, held in Montreal in 1903, he had
the honor of opening the proceedings by moving one
of the most important resolutions offered to and un-
animously adopted by that important body, a resolu-
tion in favor of Colonial contribution to Imperial de-
fence. In presenting the motion, Mr. Drummond
delivered a powerful and comprehensive speech, which
commanded marked attention in all parts of the Brit-
ish Empire.
Mr. Drummond is an active adherent of the Church
of England, occupying now for some time the position
of Warden of St. George's Church, Montreal. He
is also Vice-President of the Montreal Church Home,
and a Governor of the Montreal Diocesan Theological
College.
Mr. Drummond married February, 1890, Elizabeth
Foster, daughter of Ignatius Cockshutt, of "The
Cedars," Brantford, Ontario.
Mr. Drummond is Vice-President of the Lauren-
tian Club, and a member of the Montreal, St. James
and "Canada" Clubs, Montreal.
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HON. JAMES SUTHERLAND.
The Honourable James Sutherland, M.P., for
North Oxford, is a son of the late Alexander Suther-
land, a native of Caithness-shire, Scotland, who came
to Canada in 1841, and of his wife, Allison, daughter
of the late John Renton. Horn July 17. 1849. Kdu-
cated at Grammar School, Woodstock, Out.
In 1869, when only 20 years of age, he started a
mercantile business in Woodstock, and afterwards be-
came interested in various manufacturing industries.
On the discovery, by Mr. Thomas L. Willson, of cal-
cium carbide as a commercial commodity, lie became
connected with the inventor in its manufacture, and
several large factories have been established in the
provinces of Ontario and Ouebec. .Mr. Sutherland
has been successful in his business undertakings, and
his career has been characterized by energy, tact and
a large amount of 'Scotch caution.
Mr. Sutherland has always taken a great interest
in the development of the County of Oxford and the
City of Woodstock, where his home is. and has been
actively connected with the railway and other enter-
prises, which have tended to their growth and de-
velopment.
In 1876 he was elected to the Town Council and
for three years was Reeve of the Town and a Member
of the County Council: in 1880 he was Mayor. He
has always taken an active part in educational matters,
holding the position of Trustee of the Woodstock
Grammar School for many years. During his tenure
of office, the school rose steadily through the various
grades of High School and Collegiate Institute until
it became widely known as one of the foremost edu-
cational centres of the Province.
Mr. Sutherland is a Charter Member of the.Wood-
stock Hoard of Trade and has been Trustee of the
Woodstock Hospital since its inception. In fraternal
circles he has been connected with the Masonic Order
and the Independent Order of Oddfellows, being P.G.
of Olive Branch Lodge, I.O.O.F., and P.M. of Ox-
ford Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and Grand Senior Warden
of the Grand Lodge of Ontario. He has also been
Royal Chief of the Order of Scottish Clans.
In militia matters he has also been prominent; he
joined the 22nd Battalion of Oxford Rifles when a boy
and still holds the position of Paymaster in that bat-
talion with the rank of Major.
Mr. Sutherland's Parliamentary career commenced
in 1880, when he was elected to represent North Ox-
ford at the bye-election, caused by the sudden death
of Mr. Thomas Oliver, M.P., and he has remained
the representative of that riding ever since, having
been successively re-elected at the general elections
of 1882-87-91-96-1900, and again in 1902, on his ap-
pointment as Minister of the Crown with a portfolio.
For many years he was Assistant Whip of the Liberal
Party in the House of Commons, and, on the death
of the late James Trow, M.P., was chosen Chief Lib-
eral Whip. In this position he did his party good
service and won the esteem alike of political friends
and opponents. In 1893 he was Chairman of the
Committee of General Arrangements of the Liberal
Conference at Ottawa, that notable and historic gath-
ering of prominent and representative men from all
parts of the Dominion, which contributed so much to
the success of the Liberal party at the next general
election. He also had charge of the tonr taken
by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and a party of prominent
leaders of the then opposition to the Pacific Coast in
1894: and which was very successful in arousing
party enthusiasm and increasing the zeal of the var-
ious organizations throughout the different sections
of the Dominion. Mr. Sutherland has always been
found an active supporter of every movement, looking
to the development of the resources of the Dominion.
He has visited almost every part of the country, and
no one is more familiar with the local conditions or
has a clearer grasp of the necessities of each district.
( )n the formation of the Laurier Administration in
1896 he was offered a portfolio, but, on account of his
many business interests, declined. From 1896 to
1900 he was Chairman of the Railway Committee of
the House of Commons. On the 3Oth of September,
1899, ne was called to the Privy Council as Minister
without portfolio. In the absence of the Hon. Mr.
Sifton, during the session of 1900, he was Acting
Minister of Interior; and was Acting Postmaster
General in 1901, while Sir William Mulock was absent
in Australia as Canadian representative at the inau-
guration of the Australian Commonwealth. In Jan-
nary, 1902, he was sworn in as Minister of Marine
and Fisheries, and, while occupying this position, took
up the improvement of the aids to navigation, especial-
ly along Canada's great waterway, the St. Lawrence,
and in other parts of the Dominion as well, with a
vigor and success which gave great satisfaction to the
shipping and mercantile interests of the country. In
October of the same year he was transferred from the
Department of Marine and Fisheries to that of Pub-
lic Works. He is unmarried. A Presbyterian.
Address, Woodstock, Ont. Is a member of the To-
ronto and National Clubs, Toronto ; the Rideau, Ot-
tawa, and St. James, Montreal.
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HON. RAYMOND FOURNIER PREFONTAINE, B.GL.,K.G
The Hon. Raymond Fournier Prefontaihc, B.C.L.,
K.C., Montreal, member of the Parliament of the Do-
minion of Canada for Maisonneuve, and Minister of
Marine and Fisheries, was born at Longueuil, Chambly
County, Que., September i6th, 1850. He is a des-
cendent of the oldest and most honorable families in
the Province of Quebec, his ancestors having settled
in what was then New France in 1680. His father
was the late Mr. Toussaint Fournier Prefontaine of
Longueuil, his mother's maiden name being Ursulc
Lamarre.
The Hon. Mr. Prefontaine was educated by private
tuition and at St. Mary's College and McCiill I'ni-
versity, Montreal, graduating with the degree of
B.C.L. from the last named institution of learning in
1873. The same year he was called to the I Jar at
Montreal, and entered into the active practice of his
profession. He soon built up a most lucrative prac-
tice at the Bar, and his present firm, known under the
style of Prefontaine, Archer and Perron, has one of
the largest practices in the city of Montreal. He was
created a Queen's Council in 1893.
At a very early age he became powerfully attract-
ed to public affairs. His first appearance as a candi-
date for the suffrages of the electorate was in 1875,
when he accepted the Liberal nomination for the Que-
bec Legislature in his native County of Chambly, just
across the St. Lawrence from the City of Montreal.
He won his first election in spite of overwhelming
odds, and was making quite a mark for himself in the
Legislature when defeated on coming up for re-elec-
tion at the general election of 1878. The successful
candidate was, however, unseated, and at the bye-elec-
tion to fill the vacancy, in June, 1879, Mr. Prefontaine
was re-elected. General elections occurred frequent-
ly in those days. There was one in 1881. The Con-
servative Government swept all before them, and Mr.
Prefontaine was among the defeated.
In 1879 ne was elected a councillor of the then
town of Hochelaga, the principal East-end suburb of
Montreal. Mr. Prefontaine at once pronounced
himself in favor of a progressive policy, and set him-
self at work to have it adopted and carried out. And
he succeeded, new streets being opened, sewers con
structed, manufacturing industries encouraged, and so
on. Hochelaga developed by bounds under the im •
pulse of the enterprising municipal administration.
He saw that the best assurance of Hochelaga's future
lay in annexation to the City of Montreal, persisted in
an annexation policy and had the satisfaction of see-
ing the union consummated in 1884. He was at that
time and had been for several years previously. Mayor
of Hochelaga, and when the suburban municipality
became Hochelaga Ward of the City of Montreal, he
was sent to the City Council as one of its aldermen.
He represented the Ward continuously until February,
1898, when he was elected Mayor of Montreal by ac-
clamation. He was re-elected by an overwhelming
majority in 1900. and withdrew voluntarily, refusing
a nomination tendered him in 1902. Meantime, Mr.
Prefontaine had been making his mark in national
politics. In the midst of the excitement of Louis
Kiel, after the Northwest Rebellion, the Government
of Sir John A. Macdonald opened Hochelaga County,
apparently to test its strength. Mr. Prefontaine was
chosen as the Liberal standard bearer and a close and
bitter campaign resulted. The eyes of Canada were
turned upon Hochelaga and .Mr. Prefontaine's de-
cisive victory at the polls created a profound impres-
sion throughout Canada. He was re-elected at the
general elections of 1887 and 1890, and at the general
elections of 1896 was elected first member for the new
constituency of Maisonneuve, which formed part
of Hochelaga County. His majority was I s~o. At
the general elections of Hpo lie was again re-elected
by the tremendous majority of 1774. In the same
elections he was Liberal candidate in Terrebonne
County, hitherto a strong Conservative stronghold,
defeating his opponent at the polls and thus being
elected to the House of Commons from two con-
stituencies, and having more votes cast for him than
any other candidate in the whole Dominion of
Canada.
When a reconstruction of the Laurier cabinet was
necessitated by the resignation of the Hon. J. I. Tarte
in November, 1903, Sir Wilfrid selected Mr. Prefon-
taine as a minister, and he was sworn of the Privy
Council as Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Novem-
ber nth.
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SIR H, MONTAGU ALLAN.
Sir Hugh Montagu Allan, Montreal, was born at
Montreal, in 1860, being- the second son of the late
Sir Hugh Allan, founder of the Montreal Ocean
Steamship Company, owners of the Allan Line of
Steamers.
Mr. Allan was educated at Bishops College School,
Lennoxville, and under the terms of his late father's
will, entered the firm of H. & A. Allan on attaining
his majority, lie is now one of the senior members
of the firm. Mr. Allan is an active member of the
Montreal Hoard of Trade and was for several years
a member of the Council of that body, and an office
bearer. He is President of the Merchants Rank of
Canada, the Acadia Coal Company, the Canadian Rub-
ber Company, the Canada Paper Company, the Rail-
way Securities Company ; and Director of the Mon-
treal Rolling .Mills Company, the Montreal Street
Railway Company, the Montreal Light, Heat & Power
Company, the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, (Ltd.),
the Canadian Transfer Company, and the Labrador
Company.
Mr. Allan has for some years occupied a leading
position in the social life of Montreal. He is an ex-
master of the Montreal Hunt, and Vice-President of
the Montreal Racquet Club. He is also a Director
of the Montreal Sailors' Institute, and a member of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
( ktober, 1893, Mr. Allan was married to Mar-
guerite Ethel, daughter of the late Hector Mackenzie,
of Montreal, merchant. Mr. Allan is a member of
the St. James Club, Mount Royal Club, and Hunt
Club, Montreal; Forest and Stream Club, Dorval ;
Toronto Club, Toronto ; Rideau Club, Ottawa ; Mani-
toba Club, Winnipeg ; Knickerbocker Club, New
York ; Junior Carlton Club, London, England.
Mr. Allan was created a Knight Bachelor by His
Majesty King Edward VII., on the ocasion of His
Majesty's official birthday celebration, June 24th,
1904.
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HON. WILLIAM OWENS.
The Honourable William Owens, Montreal, mem-
ber of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada, was
born May I5th, 1840, in the township of Chatham,
Argenteuil County, Que. His father, Owen Owens,
of Denbigh, Wales, came to Canada in 1812. The
Carillon and Grenville Canals were then being built
by the Imperial Government, and those works
attracted him to the section where he settled, in
the Township of Chatham. He entered into busi-
ness as a general merchant and soon became a
leading man in the district, holding the positions of
Postmaster, Councillor, School Commissioner, etc.
During the troublous times of the rebellion of 1837-
1838 he took an active part against the rebels. He
retired from business in 1861. Mr. William Owens'
mother's name was Charlotte Lindley. and she was
born in Yorkshire, England.
Mr. Owens was educated in Argenteuil County,
entering his father's store early in life. In 1861 his
brother, Thomas, and he took over their father's busi-
ness, which they extended and carried on successfully
in connection with their lumber business, under the
first name of T. and W. Owens. In 1887, Mr. Owens
retired from the business, which has since been car-
ried on under the name of T. Owens and Sons. In
1888 he purchased from the estate of the Hon. L. J.
Papineau, all the unconceded land in the Papineau
Seignory, comprising 130 square miles, an area rich
in timber and minerals, and in which he still retains
a half interest.
Mr. Owens, being at once popular and public
spirited, has played quite a conspicuous part in the
public affairs. He was for years Councillor and
.Mayor of the Township of Chatham, Argenteuil
County. During the Fenian excitement of 1866 he-
joined Lieut. -Colonel Cushing, in raising a company
of the nth Argenteuil Rangers, and in 1870 proceed-
ed on active service with that battalion with the rank
of lieutenant.
In 1 88 1 he was elected to represent Argenteuil
County in the Quebec Legislature, as a Conservative,
defeating the lion. Frank Ciilman, Liberal. In 1886
he was re-elected by acclamation, and in 1900 was
again re-elected, this time defeating Mr. W. A. Weir.
In icjoi he resigned his seat in the Legislature and
contested Argenteuil in the Conservative interest for
the House of Commons, being defeated by the late
Dr. Christie. He was appointed to the Senate in
1896.
Since retiring from active business Senator Owens
has resided in Montreal during the winter months,
but spends the greater part of the summer at Monte-
bello, where he has an extensive dairy farm and a
splendid herd of Ayrshire cattle.
In 1862 Mr. Owen married Catherine Matilda
Powers, daughter of Orlando Powers, of Lachute,
there being issue of the union one daugh.er, Catherine
Mana Owens, now wife of Mr. F. S. Maclennan,
K.C., of Montreal. In 180.0 Mr. Owens married
Margaret Caroline AfcMartin, daughter of the late
John McMartin, formerly of Montreal, and of this
union there has been issue one daughter, Willa Mei'k
Owens, and one son, William Earl Foster Owens.
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HON. L. P. PELLETIER.
The Honorable Louis Phillippe Pelletier, K.C.,
was born at Trois Pristoles, Que., in 1857, his parents
being' the Hon. Thomas P. Pelletier, Legislative Coun-
cillor, and Caroline Casault, his wife. His ancestors
were of Mreton origin, and came to Canada during the
French regime. He is a nephew of Sir L. N. Casault,
Chief Justice of the Superior Court, and of the late
Rev. L. Jacques Casault, founder of Laval University.
He was educated at the Ste. Ann de la Pocatiere Col-
lege and Laval University, Quebec, graduating from
the last named institution of learning with the degree
of Pi. A., in 1876. Taking up the course of the faculty
of Law in the same university, he graduated therefrom
in 1880 with the degree of L.L.D., and honors, and
winning the gold medal offered by the Marquis of
Lome and Princess Louise. He was called to the
Bar at Quebec the same year and has practiced his
profession in that district ever since, he being at the
present time head of the well-known firm of Pelletier,
Drouin & I'aillargion. For several years he acted
with marked success as one of the Crown Prosecutors
of the District of Quebec, and was created Queen's
Counsel in 1893.
Mr. Pelletier has had a particularly active political
life. Tn his youth a fervent Conservative, he found
time even in the earlv days of his professional practice
to devote considerable attention to politics, and was
active in the election work, and among the party clubs
of Quebec City and District. As an acknowledge-
ment of his work and talents, he was elected President
of the Cartier Club, which position he held until its
disorganization in 1886. About this time the alleg-
i-incc of Mr. Pelletier to his party, as that of thousands
of other sincere voung French Canadian Conserva-
tives, was strained to the breaking point by the execu-
tion of Louis "Rid, the leader of the Northwest Half-
Pireeds. At this trying time, when nationalist spirit
was stirred to its depths, Mr. Pelletier gave in his ad-
hesion to the new national Conservative party,
taking a leading place therein, and eventually suc-
ceeding the late Senator Trudel as President
of the National Conservative Association of the
Province of Quebec. He was associated with the
late Colonel Amyot, M.P., in the establishment
at Quebec of "La Justice," and was for some
years one of that paper's leading editors. While
the so-called Riel excitement was at its height
he presented himself unsuccessfully as a candidate in
Temiscouata at the Provincial general elections of
1886. At the Dominion General Elections the fol-
lowing year he presented himself in Three Rivers as
a candidate for the House of Commons, again unsuc-
cessfully. May nth, 1888, he was appointed a mem-
ber of the Legislative Council by the Hon. Honore
Mercier, then Provincial Premier, but a few months
later he resigned to accept the national — conserva-
tive nomination for the Legislature for Dorchester
County, being elected by acclamation Decem-
ber 2Oth, 1888. He has represented Dorchester
in the Legislature ever since, being re-elected
at the general elections of 1890, 1892, 1897
and 1900. At first an ally and powerful sup-
porter of the Mercier Administration, he, with
others of the Government's national-conservative sup-
porters, towards the end of the administration, felt
compelled to secede from Mr. Mercier's extravagant
leadership, and supported the movement which result-
ed in the dismissal of the Mercier Government from
power December ifith, 1891, Upon the formation of
a Cabinet by the Hon. C. B. De Boucherville, to
whom his Honor, the Lieutenant-Governor, en-
trusted the reins of power, Mr. Pelletier was en-
trusted with the portfolio of Provincial Secretary,
which he retained after the re-organization of the
Cabinet by the Hon. L. O. Taillon, December i6th,
1892. Upon the transfer of the premiership from
the Hon. Mr. Taillon to the Hon. E. J. Flynn, May
ist, 1896, Mr. Pelletier accepted the portfolio of
Attorney-General, retaining it until the defeat of
the Government at the polls, May nth, 1897.
Since the Liberals regained power, Mr. Pelletier
has been one of the most aggressive and effective
leaders of the Conservative Opposition in the Legisla-
ture, a position for which he is eminently suited by
reason of his untiring energy and keen debating ca-
pacity.
Mr. Pelletier was married January nth, 1883, to
Adele, daughter of the late Simon Lelievre, advocate,
of Quebec.
Last year Laval University conferred upon him the
degree of L.L.D. Mr. Pelletier has been retained in
nearly all the celebrated cases before the courts in
this district.
He is the legal advisor of the People's Bank of
Halifax, the Hochelaga Bank, the Manufacturer's Life
Insurance Company, the Canadian Electric Light
Company, the Provincial Bank, and a number of im-
portant commercial corporations.
Mr. Pelletier is a member of the Garrison Club.
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HON. LYMAN MELVIN JONES.
The President and General Manager of the Massey-
Harris Company, Limited, of Toronto , which enjoys
the unique distinction of being the largest concern en-
gaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements
under the British flag, is the Hon. Lynian Melvin-
Jones, Senator. He was born in York County, Out.
In 1868 he entered into the mercantile business. In
1873 he gave up his business, going to Brantford
to take a position with Messrs. A. Harris, Son & Com-
pany, manufacturers. Four years later he was admit-
ted to partnership, and in 1879 he removed to Winni-
peg, where he assumed the management of the Com-
pany's business in Manitoba and the North-West Ter-
ritories. In 1881, when the firm of A. Harris, Son &
Company became a joint stock company under the
name of A. Harris, Son & Company, Limited, he
was elected a director. In 1886, he was elected an
alderman of the City of Winnipeg and appointed
Chairman of the Finance Committee. He was elected
Mayor of that city in 1887, and was Vice- 1 'resident
of the Board of Trade. He was re-elected Mayor
both years by acclamation, and in January of that
year, upon the defeat of the Provincial Government,
he accepted a portfolio in the new Government as
Provincial Treasurer, and represented the County of
Shoal Lake. During the year he negotiated in Lon-
don, Eng., for the first Provincial loan of $1,500,000
to build a competing line of railway from the
boundary (where it connected with the Northern
Pacific), to Winnipeg, Brandon and Portage-la-
Prairie. In the general election of 1888, he was
elected to represent North Winnipeg.
Resigning his position of Provincial Treasurer in
1889, but retaining his seat in the Legislature until the
end of the term, he returned to the City of Brantford
to accept the position of General Manager of his Com-
pany, which had been rendered vacant by the sudden*
death of Mr. John Harris.
Upon the formation of the Massey-Harris Com-
pany. Limited in 1891, Senator Melvin-Jones removed
to Toronto, was elected a director and appointed gen-
eral manager of the consolidated companies, which
position he occupied until 1903, when he was also
elected President and General Manager of the com-
pany. In 1893 he became a member of the Toronto
Board of Trade, lie is a director of the Verity Plow
Company, Limited, of Brantford, and is President of
the Bain Wagon Company, Limited, of Woodstock,
and in both of these associate companies he takes an
active interest. He is also a director of the Cana-
dian Bank of Commerce,' Xova Scotia Steel and
C'oal Co., Limited, and Ontario Jockey Club.
Senator Melvin-Jones is a member of the Toronto
Club, the National Club, the Country and Hunt Club,
the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, life member of the
Toronto Cricket Club, lie has always shown a
great interest and encouraged the practice and devel-
opment of amateur sports.
In 1882 Senator Melvin-Jones married Louise, a
daughter of Thomas Irwin. They have one daughter;
Eallien Necora. The Senator is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. The Senator is possessed of
unusual keen powers of observation and as head of a
great industry in touch with all parts of the Dominion
of Canada and all foreign grain growing countries, is
exceptionally well posted regarding affairs both in
Canada and foreign countries. This wide general
knowledge, coupled to good judgment and lucidity of
expression, makes his opinion on matters of general
interest valuable and eagerly sought after. No other
man in Canada has done so much to develop our
manufacturing industries, not only for home, but
in foreign countries, where through the introduction
of their machinery the company, of which he is Presi-
dent and General Manager, have made a name for
themselves (and for Canada) unequalled by any
other industry in the world. Altogether, he may
well be considered among the most representative
Canadians of his time.
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JAMES CRATHERN.
Mr. James Crathern, merchant, No. 22 Macgregor
Street, Montreal, formerly head of the great hardware
firm of Crathern and Caverhill, is one of Montreal's
representative men. He is an ex-President of the
Montreal Board of Trade, and at present occupies a
seat on the Montreal Harbor Commission as a repre-
sentative of that important body.
He is closely identified with the administration of
many of the country's most influential commercial cor-
porations, being President of the Merchant's Cotton
Company and the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Com-
pany, and a Director of the Canadian Bank of Com-
merce, the St. Lawrence Sugar Refining Company,
the National Trust Company, and the Consumer's Cor-
dage Company.
Mr. Crathern has for many years taken an active
interest in the work of the Montreal General Hospital
and other city charities, and is at the present time
President of the important institution mentioned.
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HON. THOMAS CHASE-CASGRAIN.
The Honorable Thomas Chase-Casgrain, K.C.,
L L.D., M.P., for Montmorency, was born at Detroit,
Mich., U.S.A., July 28th, 1852. His parents were
the Honorable C. E. Casgrain, M.D., of Windsor, Out.,
Member of the Senate of Canada, and a descendant
of one of the oldest French-Canadian families, and
Charlotte Mary Chase, his wife. Mr. T. Chase-Cas-
grain received his education at the Seminary of Que-
bec, and Laval University, Quebec, graduating from
the last named institution with the degree of Master
of Laws, siimma cum laudc, and taking the Dufferin
medal. He at once entered upon the practice of his
profession in Quebec. He was granted the degree
of Doctor of Law by his alma mater October I3th,
1883, and has for some years held a chair in the fac-
ulty as Professor of Criminal Law. He was appoint-
ed Queen's Council in April, 1887, and represented the
Crown during several terms of the Court of Queen's
Bench, at Quebec. As junior counsel for the Crown
at the trials of Louis Kiel and the rebels at Regina,
N.W.T., in July, 1885, his name came prominently be-
fore the people of Canada. He received the high
destination of election to the office of Batonnier-Gen-
eral of the Bar of the Province of Quebec in 1894, and
from 1893 to 1897 held the appointment of Chairman
of the Commission to revise the Code of Procedure
in the Province of Quebec. At the present time he
is a member of two distinct influential law firms : —
"McGibbon, Casgrain, Ryan & Mitchell," Montreal ;
and "Casgrain, Lavery, Rivard and Chauveau," Que-
bec. Fie has resided in Montreal for several years. An
ardent Conservative, and possessed of fine oratorical
powers, combined with the talents of wit, repartee and
fine sarcasm, it was but natural that he should take to
and make a mark in the political arena. He sat in the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec from
the general elections of 1886 until May, 1896, \vhen
he resigned to accept nomination to the Dominion
House of Commons.
He was appointed member of the Executive Coun-
cil of the Province of Quebec December 2Oth, 1891,
becoming Attorney-General in the l)e Boucherville
administration. He was subsequently alloted the
same portfolio in the Taillon administration. He
was elected to the House of Commons in Mont-
morency in 1896, and re-elected at the general
election of 1900.
May 151)1, 1878, he was married to Marie Louise,
daughter of Alex. LeMoine, Esq., Quebec, and they
have one son, Alexander Chase-Casgrain.
The Hon. T. Chase-Casgrain is a member of the
Garrison Club, Quebec ; the St. James Club, Montreal ;
and the Rideau Club, Ottawa.
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ARTHUR J, HODGSON,
Mr. Arthur J. Hodgson, merchant, Montreal,
President of the firm of Hodgson Brothers, Limited,
Produce and Commission merchants, was born in
Birkcnhead, England, in 1860, and educated at the
Liverpool Institute, Mount Pleasant. L:pon the com-
pletion of his education, he entered the service of the
great Liverpool produce house of Hodgson Bros.,
established by his father in 1856. The Liver-
pool house established a branch here in 1874, and
the firm of Hodgson Brothers is the successor of the
business thus established, and the oldest in the trade.
The present members of the Canadian firm are Mr.
Arthur J. Hodgson, and his brother Mr. Henry A.
Hodgson. The latter came to Montreal in 1874 to
assume charge of the Canadian business, and is an
active and well-known citizen of Montreal, who has
held various positions of honor, including that of
President of the St. George's Society.
Mr. Arthur J. Hodgson, held most of the posi-
tions connected with the English business until 1885,
when he came to Montreal to join his brother, owing
to the prospects of increasing prosperity in Canada.
In 1891 it was decided, owing to the difficulty of the
Canadian branch competing for the custom of other
Liverpool merchants outside of the home firm, to make
the branch at Montreal a separate and distinct busi-
ness. Accordingly the brothers, Henry and Arthur
Hodgson, retired from their partnership in the Eng-
lish firm, and succeeded to the entire ownership and
control of the present Canadian house. The wisdom
of the policy of this arrangement has been amply
proven by the steady growth taking place each year
since the change in the Canadian business, the turn-
over increasing from $1,500,000 during the year pro-
ceeding the change to nearly $5,000,000 for the year
succeeding. The firm has a special agent in Win-
nipeg, and has also branches at Stratford, London,
Xapanee, Belleville, Brockville, St. Hyachinthe and
Charlottetown.
Mr. Arthur J. Hodgson is a very active and pro-
minent member of the Montreal Board of Trade, after
serving two years as a member of the council, being
elected and serving successively as Treasurer, second
Vice-President and President. He occupied the last
named important office at the time of the holding of
the fifth Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of
the Empire in Montreal, in 1903, the position impos-
ing many responsible duties upon him, which he dis-
charged with conspicuous success.
NOEL GEORGE LAMBERT MARSHALL,
One of the most prominent merchants in the city of
Toronto, Noel George Lambert Marshall, was born /in
London, England, coming with his parents to Canada
in 1857. His father, Kenric R. Marshall, who was a
brilliant linguist, established an academy in Toronto,
and, subsequently, for many years, was one of the lead-
ing teachers of languages in the High Schools of the
city. Noel Marshall, after completing his education,
entered the employ of L. Coffee & Company, remain-
ing with that firm for three years. He then obtained
a position with George Chaffey & Brothers, coal mer-
chants, and gained a thorough and expert knowledge
of the fuel industry in all its branches, and has ever
since been engaged therein. He is the President
and General Manager of the Standard Fuel Company,
of Toronto, Limited, of No. 90 King street East, which
was incorporated in 1888, and, indeed, has been man-
ager of that well-known enterprise from the first incep-
tion of its now extensive business.
In connection with his association with the fuel in-
dustry, Mr. Marshall earned the gratitude of his fellow
citizens, by being actively concerned during the winter
of 1902-1903, when the coal famine was raging over
the North American Continent, in keeping down the
prices as low as possible, the poorer classes especially
looking upon him as a public benefactor in that time of
misfortune. His philanthropic efforts in this direc-
tion have been undoubtedly, if unexpected, rewarded,
by the rapid expansion of the business interests of the
company which he manages.
Mr. Marshall has always taken a keen interest in
the prosperity of the city of Toronto, is a member of
the Council of the Hoard of Trade, and was a member
of the Toronto School Hoard, being Chairman of the
Night School Committee. He is President of the
Faramel Feed Company.
Noel Marshall is an important figure in Toronto
Society. He is President of the .National Club, a life
member of the St. George's Society, a member of the
Albany, Royal Canadian Yacht. Toronto Country and
Hunt, and Caledon Fishing Clubs, and the Kuffalo
Club. He has always been an active participant in
the sports of yachting, fishing, cricket, lacrosse, was an
oarsman in his time of no small merit, and, in fact, is
a staunch supporter of athletics and all manly outdoor
sports.
For twenty years Xoel Marshall has been a
church-warden of St. Matthew's Church, Toronto,
having assisted in laying the corner stone of the
edifice, and was one of its founders. On the loth
of December, 1879, he was married to a daughter of
John Hogg, J.P., and has two sons: Kenric R.. and
Noel Clifford Marshall. His residence is at No. 623
Sherbourne street.
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HON. JOHN CHARLES McCORKILL, ICC
The Honorable John Charles McCorkill, King's
Counsel and Provincial Treasurer of the Province of
Quebec, was born at Farnham, P.Q., August 3ist,
1854. His father, the late Robt. McCorkill, who died
June, 1874, was a country gentleman, having no
occupation, who assisted in organizing the Goth Mis-
sisquoi Uattalion after the Fenian Raid of 1866. He
was appointed captain of No. 4 Company, with head-
quarters at Farnham, and was present with his com-
pany at Fccles Hill, Fenian Raid of 1870. He moved
his family to Montreal in 1866, to give his three sons
the advantages of a better education than the school
at Farnham afforded. The Hon. Mr. McCorkill's
mother, whose maiden name was Margaret Meighan,
died at Farnham in October, 1888. His paternal
grandfather, John McCorkill, and wife, Mary Graham,
immigrated from Glasgow, Scotland, about 1818, and
lived a short time at Mount Johnson, County of Iber-
ville, and at Chambly, and then took up land at
Farnham on the banks of the Yamaska (where Dr.
R. C. McCorkill, grandson, now resides), and was one
of the pioneers of that locality, and erected the third
house at what is now known as the town of Farnham.
He died about 1834. His maternal grandfather, Wil-
liam Meighan, died in north of Ireland. His widow,
Jane Breakey and family, immigrated to Canada and
settled in the Eastern Townships, a short distance from
Farnham. Part of the family afterwards removed to
the United States.
Hon. Mr. McCorkill was educated at the Farnham
District School and Academy ; the St. John's, P. Q.
High School, the McGill Model School and Normal
School, Montreal, and at McGill University, Montreal,
graduating from the last named institution of learn-
ing with the degree of B.C.L. in April, 1877. During
two years of his law course at McGill, he engaged in
educational work in Montreal, as first assistant in the
Royal Arthur School from 1st of October to Christmas
holidays, 1874; and as principal of the British &
Canadian School (14 teachers and 500 scholars) from
January, 1875, to June, 1876, under the Protestant
board of school commissioners.
Mr. McCorkill was admitted to the Bar of ihe
Province of Quebec, in January, 1878, and practised
law in Montreal until the autumn of 1886. He has
practised law continuously at Cowansville or Sweets-
burg (which are adjacent villages) since May, 1888,
and has been connected with some of the most impor-
tant cases, criminal, civil and municipal, in that dis-
trict, since that time. He took silk in 1898. He ii
the owner of extensive properties in the town and
township of Farnham, and occupies an extensive resi-
dential property in Cowansville, which is admitted to
be one of the finest in the Eastern Townships.
Mr. McCorkill was Liberal candidate in the Pro-
vincial election, October 1886, against E. E. Spencer,
the retiring member in the County of Missisquoi. He
was then a resident of Montreal, and was defeated by
105 majority. He was again a candidate against
Spencer in the bye-election of 1888, and again defeated
by 91. He then organized the Liberal Association, of
Missisquoi, and was elected president, since which
time he has continued to be president and direct the
organization of the party. He was elected in the
Provincial elections, 1897, over his old opponent E.
E. Spencer, by 405 majority. Ht resigned his seat
in the Assembly to accept a seat in the Legislative
Council as successor to the late Hon. Thomas Wood
for the District of Bedford, November, 1898, and
took an active part in all legislation which Cf.me before
the council. Upon the death of the late Hon. H.
Thomas Duffy, Provincial Treasurer, he was offered
the treasurership and the Liberal nomination ;n
Brome. He resigned his seat in the council, and was
elected member for Brome by 338 majority over
David A. Manson, Conservative on the 2gth of
October, 1903.
Mr. McCorkill accepted a commission in the 5th
Battalion Royal Scots of Canada, Montreal, April,
1879, anfl rosc to rank °f niajor, being senior major,
when he retired November, 1887, retaining rank. He
is president of the Amalgamated Rifle Associations
(six in number), of the District of Bedford, whose
annual matches take place at Sweetsburg.
May 2 ist, 1884, he married Apphia Mary Leonard,
youngest daughter of the late Honorable Senator
Leonard, of London, Ont. Mr. McCorkill is a mem-
ber of the Garrison Club, Quebec ; the Canadian Order
of Foresters and the Independent Order of Odd-
fellows. Mr. McCorkill was mayor of Cowansville
for several years, resigning in January, 1897.
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LOUIS ALEX ANDRE TASCHEREAU,
Mr. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, M.L.A., of Que-
bec, advocate, was born in the city of Quebec, March
5th, 1867, his father being the Hon. Jean Thomas Tas-
chereau, Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, and
time Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec.
Mr. Taschereau belongs to one of the most eminent
French-Canadian families in the province of Quebec, a
family which has provided Church and State with
some of their most distinguished men and brightest
ornaments. His ancestors came to Canada from Tours,
France, and he is a brother of Judge Henri T. Tasche-
reau of the Superior Court, Montreal, a nephew of the
late Cardinal Taschereau, and a cousin of Sir Henri
Elzear Taschereau, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Canada.
Mr. Taschereau was educated at the Quebec Semin-
ary and Laval University, where he had the distinction
of winning medals offered by Lord Stanley of Preston,
at the time Governor-General of Canada ; Lieut. -Gov-
ernor Angers and Judge Tessier. He was admitted to
the Bar in 1889, and entered into partnership with the
Hon. C. Fitzpatrick, now Minister of Justice of Can-
ada. The firm is now Fitzpatrick, Parent, Taschereau,
Roy & Cannon. The Hon. S. N. Parent is, at the pre-
sent time, Prime .Minister of the Province of Quebec,
and has been for many years mayor of the city of Que-
bec. This firm occupies a commanding position at the
Quebec liar, representing various leading banks and
commercial corporations, such as the Hank of Mont-
real, the Molsons l>ank, etc. Mr. Taschereau has a
large personal practice in both the civil and criminal
courts, his marked success as counsel for Messrs.
Gaynor and Greene in the historical extradition pro-
ceedings being still fresh in the minds of all Canadians.
Mr. Taschereau is a Liberal in politics, and since
December, 1900, when he defeated his opponent, Mr.
E. Bouffard, by 61 1 majority, he has representel the
county of Montmorency in the Quebec Legislature.
He was married May 26th, 1891, to Miss Adine
Dionne, of Quebec, and their family consists of five
children, Paul, Robert, Gabrielle Charles and Juliette.
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SAMUEL CARSLEY,
Samuel Carsley, the founder of the great down-
town departmental dry goods business, now known as
the S. Carsley Company (Limited), Montreal, and
which business ranks among the largest of its kind in
Canada, was born in Shropshire, England, coming to
Canada in the year 1857.
Mr. Carsley was apprenticed to the dry goods trade
when a mere lad in the market town of Ellsmere, and
thus begun a training in this line, which was continued
for a few years in the great centres of Liverpool, Man-
chester and London, before embarking for Canada.
Nearly fifty years spent in this country has resulted
the immense mercantile house situated on Notre
in
Dame, St. James and St. Peter streets, Montreal, which
is so well-known throughout the entire country.
Mr. Carsley, about two years ago, relinquished the
active management of the business to his sons, but still
remains a director of the company.
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JOHN HOSKIN, K.C, LL.D.
An eminent member of the Chancery Bar in To-
ronto, few lawyers in Canada are more widely known
than John Hoskin, K.C., LL.D., D.C.L. He was
born at Holsworthy, Devonshire, England, in
May, 1836, and received his education in the
English metropolis. Coming to Canada in 1^54,
he was called to the Bar in 1863, and has
ever since practised law in Toronto. He is the senior
member of the firm of McCarthy, Osier, Hoskin &
Harcourt, having been a partner therein since 1877.
When a law student John Hoskin had the advantage
of studying in the office of the following eminent
members of the Ontario Bar, the late Robert Ar-
mour, the late Chief Justice Sir Matthew Cameron,
the late Chief Justice Sir George Burton and the Right
Honorable Sir Henry Strong, lately Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court. From 1874 to November, 1902,
Mr. Hoskin held the office of Guardian ad litem and
official Guardian of Infants for the Province of Onta-
rio, and resigning the office at the latter date, the Gov-
ernment appointed him Advisory Counsel to his suc-
cesor. In 1873 John Hoskin was created Queen's
Counsel by the Earl of Duffern, and was first elected
a Bencher of the Law Society, 1876. He is a Senator
of Toronto University (Hon. LL.D., 1889), am' was
elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of that in-
stitution, vice Hon. E. Blake on his appointment as
Chancellor in 1892. He was, however, an unsuccess-
ful candidate in 1895 for the Vice-Chancellorship of
Toronto University.
Mr. Hoskin is intimately connected with numerous
financial and mercantile corporations, being on the
directorate of the Canada Life Assurance Company,
of the Bank of Commerce and of the ISritish American
Assurance Company, a Vice-President of the Canada
Landed and National Investment Company, and Presi-,
dent of the Toronto General Trust Corporation. He
has been authoritatively described as a man of great
business experience, fine ability and good judgment.
Mr. Hoskin takes the deepest interest in all works
of a charitable and philanthropic character. He is a
member of the Toronto Club, and of the Grosvenor
Club, London. England.
In 1866 John Hoskin married Mary Agnes, daugh-
ter of the late Walter Mackenzie, Barrister-at-Law, of
Castle Frank, Toronto. He resides at the Dale, To-
ronto.
HON. LOMER GOUIN, ICC
The Honorable Lomer Gouin, K.C., 28 St. Denis
Street, Montreal, Advocate and Minister of Coloniza-
tion and Public Works for the Province of Quebec,
was born at Grondines, Que., March iQth, 1861, his
father being- N. Gouin, M.D., a well-known local
practitioner.
Mr. Gouin's classical studies were made at the
Sorel and Lcvis colleges ; his law studies in Montreal,
first under Mr., afterwards Sir J. J. C. Abbott, Q.C.,
and then under Hon. R. Laflame, former Minister of
Justice. His first partnership after being; admited
to the Bar in January, 1884, was with the present
Judge Pagnuelo and the Hon. L. O. Taillon. He
has since been associated with the Hon., now Judge
Robidoux, Mr., now Hon. Raymond Prefontaine, the
late E. N. Saint-Jean, Q.C., the late Hon. Honore
Mercier, Mr. Rodolphc Lemieux, M.P., and Mr.
Evariste Brassard, the firm's name now being Gouin,
Lemieux & Brassard.
Mr. Gouin soon made a mark for himself at the
Bar, especially in railway and election cases. He
has frequently appeared in important cases for such
influential corporations as the Grand Trunk Railway,
the Montreal and Chaplain Railway Company, the
Beauharnois Railway Company, the Chateauguay
Northern Ry. Co., and the Montreal Terminal Rail-
way Co., invariably with credit to himself.
A strong liberal, and possessed of a good command
of language and close reasoning capacity, he was,
while yet a young man, drawn into the whirl of poli-
tics, and figured conspicuously in the work of the lib-
eral clubs of Montreal district. In 1891, he was ten-
dered and accepted the nomination to contest the
County of Richelieu in the Liberal interest against
Sir Hector Langevin, the then Minister of Public
Works, who defeated him by a narrow majority. In
the general elections of 1897, as the party candidate
for the Provincial Legislature in Montreal, No. 2 Di-
vision (St. Jamesj, he was elected by a round majority
over Mr. Auger, M.P.P., which seat he has held ever
since.
In February, 1900, Mr. Gouin was elected to a
seat in the Montreal City Council as alderman for the
East Ward, but resigned a few months later upon re-
ceiving the portfolio of Public Works in the Parent
administration, to which the oortfolio of Colonization
was added the next year. His official work has been
characterized by the exercise of sound common sense,
while his special talent as a cool, capable debater, has
been a great strength to the government on the floor
of the Legislature and in electoral contests.
Mr. Gouin has been a member of the Catholic sec-
tion of the Council of Public Instruction for three
years. One of his latest legislative achievements
was having the age-limit for admission to factory labor
raised from 12 to 13 years. He has always been a
forcible defender of Montreal's civic autonomy in the
Quebec House.
In 1888 Mr. Gouin was married to Eliza, daughter
of the late Hon. Honore Mercier, and their surviv-
ing family consists of two sons, Leon Mercier
Gouin and Paul Gouin.
Mr. Gouin is a member of the Club Canadien,
Montreal, the St. Denis Club, Montreal, the Montreal
Reform Club, and the Garrison Club, Quebec.
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HUGH ANDREW ALLAN.
Hugh Andrew Allan, the head of the firm of H.
and A. Allan, the representatives of the famous Allan
Steamship Line in Montreal, was born in that city on
the 22nd September, 1857. He is the second son of
of the late Andrew Allan, the former head of the
firm, and President of the Merchants Bank of Canada,
his grandfather being Captain Alexander Allan, the
founder of the Allan Line. Hugh Andrew Allan was
educated at the Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh,
and completed his studies at Rugby School, under
those well-known head masters, Dr. Hayman and Dr.
Jex. Blake. Returning to Canada Mr. Allan spent
three years in the Merchants Bank of Canada, he then
entered the offices of the Allan Line, working through
every department and thoroughly mastering the ship-
ping business in all its details.
In 1880, when the firm opened branch offices in
Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. H. A. Allan went to that
city in the capacity of Assistant Manager, remaining
there two years, then he resumed his duties at the
Montreal headquarters. After marrying in Quebec
in 1884, he returned to Boston in 1887, and assumed
entire control of that branch. For five years he oc-
cupied that position, until in 1892, he took charge of
the business of this firm, which he still manages, in
conjunction with his brother Andrew. Mr. H. A.
Allan personally directs the London and Liverpool
business of the Allan Company, Mr. Andrew Allan
Superintending its Glasgow interests.
The principal recreation of Hugh Andrew Allan
in his leisure time, has ben fox-hunting, an expert
horseman from boyhood, he takes a keen delight in
horses and hounds. In 1879 he established the Ard-
gowmi pack of fox-hounds, importing them from
Kngland. He hunted this pack from Lachine over
the western part of the island as far as St. Ann's. In
connection with the Myopia Club of Boston, Mr.
Alhn, in 1881, started a fine pack of hounds, hunting
them from Winchester first, and subsequently from
Wenham and Hamilton. Riding has always been the
chief occupation of the leisure moments of Mr. Allan's
life, snatched, as they are, from the hard routine of
the heavy duties attached to his large business inter-
ests, but he has always also been a hearty supporter
of all manly outdoor exercises and sports.
Mr. H. A. Allan is President of the Montreal Tele-
graph Company, a director of the Merchants Bank of
Canada, the Canada Paper Company, the Canadian
Rubber Company, the Allan Line Steamship Company,
and the Acadia Coal Company, Nova Scotia. He
is a member of the Mount Royal Club, the St. James
Club, the Forest and Stream, Racquet and Golf Clubs
of Montreal, the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, and
the Garrison Club, of Quebec.
In 1884, Hugh Andrew Allan married the daughter
of William Rae, the representative of the Allan Line
in Quebec, and has one child, Margaret Rachel Allan.
He resides at 289 Stanley Street, Montreal, his county
seat being at The Knoll, Point Claire.
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HON. HORACE ARCHAMBEAULT, L.L.L., LL.D., K.G
The Hon. Horace Archambcault, L.L.L., L L.D.,
K.C Speaker of the Legislative Council and Attorney
General for the Province of Quebec, was born at L'As-
somption, P.Q., March 6th, 1857, and was the son of
the la<^ Hon. Louis Archambeault, formerly Commis-
sioner of Public Works for the Province of Quebec in
the Chauveau and Ouimet Governments, and Elizabeth
Dugal, his wife.
He was educated at L'Assomption College, and
taking up the study of the law, followed the course at
Laval University, Quebec, graduating with the degree
of L.L.L. (summa cum laudc) in 1878, and taking the
degree of L L.D. in course in 1886. He was called to
the Bar in 1878, has since practiced his profession in
Montreal, and is at the present time a member of the
firm of Rainville, Archambeault, Gervais & Rainville.
In 1 88 1, he was appointed Professor of Commer-
cial and Maritime Law at Laval University, Montreal,
and has retained that chair ever since.
He was called to the Legislative Council of the
Province, June 5, 1888, was appointed a Member of
the Council of Public Instruction, 1890, and in the
same year was created a Q.C. by the Earl of Derby.
On the formation of Mr. Marchand's Administration
in Quebec, May, 1897, Mr. Archambeault accepted
office therein as Attorney-General, and again, in 1900,
in Mr. Parent's Administration, he accepted the same
office. He has thus held this office continuously since
May, 1897, that being a longer continuous official
career than any of his predecessors. He has also held
for the same period of time the position of Speaker of
the Legislative Council.
In religion Mr. Archambeault is a Roman Catholic,
politically, he is a Liberal. He married, September,
1882, Lizzie, daughter of Roger Lelievre, of Quebec.
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HARVEY PRENTICE DWIGHT.
The President of the Great North Western Tele-
graph Company, Harvey Prentice Dwight, who has
long been known as "The Father of Canadian Tele-
graphy," is a splendid example of what determined
hard work, perseverance and undaunted resolution
can accomplish. He was born at Belleville, Jefferson
County, New York, on December 23rd, 1828, his an-
cestors being of New England extraction, and with no
education save that obtainable at a backwoods country
school, left home at the age of fifteen and spent three
years in a small country store in ( )swego County, New
V'ork. In 1847, — tne vt'ar of its inception — he entered
the service of the Montreal Telegraph Compam,
serving first as operator at ISelleville, Out., and after-
wards at Montreal. In 1850 he took charge of the
Toronto office of the Company, and shortly afterwards
was appointed General Western Superintendent.
While acting in this capacity, extensions were proposed
and carried out throughout the whole of Western On-
tario under his direction. When an amalgamation of
telegraph interests in the Dominion was brought about
in 1881, and the lines of the Montreal and Dominion
Telegraph Companies were merged under the charter
of the Great North Western Telegraph Company, Air.
Dwight was appointed General Manager of the com-
bined system. He was elected President a few years
later, and occupied both those offices until October.
1903, when he retired from the General Managership
of the Company, retaining the office of President.
Thus for upwards of fifty-six years he has devoted
his life to the advancement of the Canadian telegraph
service, keeping it fully up to modern requirements,
and furthering its extensions, until it has developed
into the present existing system. To Mr. Dwight
Canada undoubtedly owes its present scale of cheap
telegraph rates.
Mr. Dwight has necessarily avoided any associa-
tion with politics, but on many occasions rendered ser-
vices of the utmost importance to the Government of
the country. During the Fenian Raid the distribution
of operators along the various frontiers where trouble
existed, or was threatened, was placed in his hands.
During the North-West rebellion of 1885, he also ren-
dered signal service to the Government along similar
lines, his services in this connection being publicly
acknowledged in Parliament by the Minister of Mili-
tia. Aside from his connection with the telegraph
service. Mr. Dwight is first Vice-President of the Can-
adian General Electric Company. He was one of the
pioneer promoters of electric lighting, and is a director
of the Toronto and I ondon Electric Companies, Pres-
ident of the Birkbeck Investment and Savings Company,
Chairman of the Investigating Governors of the Royal
Canadian Humane Association, and has identified him-
self with the progress of Toronto, taking an active
interest in the civic government of the city.
His recreation has been in annual hunting and fish-
ing visits to the Canadian woods in Northern Ontario
and New Brunswick, and although in his seventy-fifth
yc'ir, he is in vigorous health, and has apparently many
years of useful life before him, for eventually a man
of such restless energy, will undoubtedly die in harness.
He encourages golf, being a member of the Lambton
Golf Club, and he is also a member of the Toronto
Club.
On November 29th, 1876, Harvey Prentice Dwight
married Miss Margaret Helliwell, of Toronto. His
name will ever be indissolubly connected with the es-
tablishment of land telegraphy in Canada.
ROBERT BOWIE.
Mr. Robert Bowie, Brewer, of Brockville, Ont, was
born at London, Eng., in 1840. His father was Alli-
son Bowie, who was born in Glasgow in 1811, and who
came to Canada with his family in the service of the
Imperial government in 1846, to open and take charge
of the military prison on St. Helen's Island opposite
Montreal. Mr. Allison Bowie held the position named
until his death in 1852. His wife, Martha Grasby,
mother of Mr. Robert Bowie, was born near Hull,
Yorkshire, in 1818. After being educated at the High
School of Montreal and the Montreal College, Mr.
Robert Bowie proceeded to Brockville to enter a groc-
ery house, serving three years to learn the trade. From
that date he remained engaged in mercantile pursuits
until 1880, when he entered into partnership in the
brewery business in Brockville, of which he is now sole
owner, though the active business management is in
the hands of his son Allison. Mr. Bowie has always
taken a very active interest in the municipal affairs of
the Town of Brockville. He was for some years a
member of the town council, and is at present chairman
of the Light and Power Department. One of Mr.
Bowie's principal accomplishments in municipal work
was his being largely instrumental in securing control
for the corporation, of the Brockville waterworks,
which was only successful after many defeats and re-
burfs. The project has already justified itself finan-
cially, and can be quoted as a satisfactory test of the
principle of municipal ownership. Mr. Bowie had the
honor of being elected Mayor of Brockville in 1882.
He was connected with the Active Militia force of
Canada for seventeen years, retiring with the rank of
Captain in A. Company, Brockville, at present No. i
Company, 4ist Regiment.
Mr. Bowie was married at Brockville in 1866 to
Margaret E. McClean, and their family consists of two
sons and four daughters.
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HUGH McLENNAN.
Hugh McLennan was born in Glengarry, Ont,
22nd of June, 1825, being the second son of John Mc-
Lennan. He came to Montreal in 1842, and entered
the firm of Scott & Shaw, hardware merchants. With
this introduction to mercantile life he turned to trans-
portation on the St. Lawrence, with which he remained
identified during all his lifetime, forming in 1869 the
Montreal Transportation Co., and he remained Presi-
dent of this company until his death. In 1854 he joined
his brother John in the grain export business, and they
remained in partnership till 1866. During part of this
time Hugh McLennan lived in Chicago, but returned
to Montreal in the latter date, when 'his brother John
retired from active business, and he carried on the
gram export trade till the end of 1898. During his
business career in .Montreal he was identified with
many of the commercial interests of the City, serving
his term as President of the Corn Kxchange and Board
of Trade, and being the former body's representative
on the Montreal Harbor Commission for twenty years.
He was a Director of the ISank of Montreal, President
of the Williams Manufacturing Co., Vice-President of
the Montreal Rolling Mills, Canada Sugar Refining
Co., The Montreal Gas Co.. and also a Director in var-
ious other industrial corporations. He took a great
interest in the McGill University, of which he was a
Governor, and gave much of his time during the later
years of his life to this body. He died suddenly on the
2 ist November, 1899.
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BARTLETT McLENNAN.
.Mr. Hartlett McLennan, merchant, Montreal, was
born in the Canadian commercial metropolis in 1868,
being the youngest son of the late Hugh McLennan
and Isabella Stewart, his wife.
The name of the late Mr. Hugh McLennan will al-
ways be intimately associated with the development
of the inland carrying trade. He was the founder,
and up to the time of his death, three years ago, Presi-
dent of the Montreal Transportation Company. He
was a native of Glengarry County, being born there in
1825, and coming to Montreal in 1842, entering the
service of a line of steamers then plying between Mon-
treal and Kingston in the capacity of purser. He soon
became freight agent and wharfinger for the company
at Kingston, and the following year removed to Mon-
treal in the same capacity. In 1853 he entered into
partnership with his brother, Mr. John McLennan, and
the firm carried on a grain and transportation business
until 1867, when Mr. John McLennan retired. The
transportation part of the firm's business extended and
incorporated under the name of the Montreal Trans-
portation Company.
Mr. Bartlett McLennan was educated at Lyall's
School, Montreal, and the Royal Military College,
Kingston. After graduating from the last-named in-
stitution, he entered his father's business and upon that
gentleman's death succeeded him as President of the
Montreal Transportation Company. He is also Vice-
President of the Williams Manufacturing Company
and a director of the Montreal Grain Elevating Com-
pany.
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JOHN TORRANCE.
John Torrance, merchant, is a son of the late David
Torrance, President of the Bank of Montreal, by his
wife, Jane Torrance. He was born in Montreal, Au-
gust 8th, 1835, and received his education at the High
School of Montreal, graduating with the distinction
of dux of that fai.nous institution of learning. In
1850 he entered the firm of David Torrance and Com-
pany, of which he is now the principal, and which firm
has for years acted as the agents of the Dominion Line
of steamships, plying between Montreal and Liverpool
and Bristol. Mr. Torrance served terms as 2nd Vice-
President and 1st Vice-President of the Montreal
Board of Trade, and was a member of the Council for
years, but was defeated for the Presidency in 1897.
He was for many \ears a member of the Montreal
Board of Harbor Commissioners, and has consistently
worked for the deepening of the ship channel, between
Montreal and Quebec, and the improvement of the
terminal facilities in the Harbor of Montreal.
In January, 1860, Mr. Torrance married Margaret
Watson, youngest daughter of the late Senator James
Ferrier, and his residence is No. I Beaver Hall
Square, Montreal, Que.
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HON. RICHARD TURNER.
1 he Hon. Richard Turner, merchant and legislator,
of the city of Quebec, was born in that city in 1843.
His father was a native of Rochester, England, and
his mother was born in Kilfinan, Ireland. Immediately
after completing a sound business education, he entered
upon a business career, and in 1870 entered into part-
nership as wholesale grocers with Mr. J. Whitehead,
under the firm name of Whitehead & Turner. In 1885,
Mr. Whitehead retired and Mr. Turner has carried on
the business, under the old name, on his own account.
Although his extensive private business has made most
exacting calls upon his time, he has found time to iden-
tify himself with various public enterprises and to de-
vote considerable intelligent attention to public affairs.
He has large interests in the shipping and lumber busi-
ness and in railways, and is an extensive importer from
the West Indies, China and Japan.
He was formerly a director of La Banque Natio-
nale, is president of the Wholesale Grocers' Associa-
tion, firm of LeBoutillier Bros. & Co., Ltd. ; past presi-
dent of St. George's Society and chairman of the Que-
bec High School. Air. Turner had the honor of occu-
pying the position of president of the Quebec Board of
Trade for three consecutive terms. He also, for some
years, sat as alderman in the City Council.
A staunch believer in the principles of the Liberal
party, he is, and has been for some years, honorary
president of the Quebec Liberal Club.
He was called to the Legislative Council of the
Province of Quebec, vice D. A. Ross, deceased, July,
1897. He is chairman of the Railway Committee in
the Council. He takes an active part in all charitable
work, and that which is in the interest of his city and
development of the province of Quebec.
In 1867, he married Miss Emily Ellis, and their
family consists of four sons and two daughters.
An Episcopalian.
HON. ADELARD TURGEON.
The Honorable Aclelard Turgeon, Minister of Ag-
riculture in the Quebec Provincial Government, was
born at Beaumont, Que., December ujth, 1863, the son
of Damase Turgeon, farmer and merchant, and Chris-
tine Turgeon, his wife. After receiving a classical
and scientific education at Levis College he entered the
faculty of law of Laval University, Quebec, graduat-
ing in 1887, and being called to the Bar July 12th, the
same year. For six months he engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession alone, then entering into partner-
ship with Mr. Henry G. Carroll in the City of Que-
bec, under the firm name of Turgeon and Carroll. In
1897 a change took place in the firm, the designation
of which was changed to Turgeon and Lachance.
To-day it enjoys one of the best practices in the City
of Quebec.
While still a young student Mr. Turgeon won an
enviable reputation as a fluent and powerful orator,
and careful study, his professional practice, and his ac-
tive participation in practical politics, have imparted
to his naturally powerful style of oratory a grace and
finish to which few public speakers have attained. It
has been said by some well able to judge that with the
single exception of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr. Turgeon
is the most graceful and classical orator Canada pos-
sesses. His style is very much the same as that ot
the silver-tongued Prime Minister, there being a scrup
ulous care about his phraseology and a fair roundnesi
to his sentences, which never fail to impress the listen-
er. By instinct a strong Liberal, and possessing in
such a marked degree the talent for public speaking,
it is not surprising that as early as 1884, when but
twenty-one years of age, we find him engaged in the
turmoil of politics and taking the platform as an ex-
ponent of the principles of his party. He thus early
in life made for himself a provincial reputation as a
brilliant orator, but being very young and having the
founding of his professional career still before him,
some years were to elapse before he was to make his
first appeal for the votes of the electorate. His op-
portunity came in 1890 when he was chosen as Liberal
candidate in the County of Bellechasse for the Quebec
Legislature. The fight was a hard one. Air. Turgeon
being pitted against a veteran campaigner in the person
of Mr. Faucher <le St. .Maurice, himself an orator and
literateur of 110 mean order. Mr. Turgeon carried
the County by the substantial majority of 257. He
was re-elected in 1892 and 1897, and as a private
member on the floor of the House rendered conspicu-
ous service to his party. When the Hon. G. Alai-
chand, May iith, 1897, formed his administration,
he called Mr. Turgeon to his Cabinet as Commissioner
of Colonization and Mines, and the young minister,
on appealing as usual to his count}', was returned by
acclamation. At the general elections of 1900 he was
once more returned by acclamation. When the Hon.
G. Marchand died, September 251)1, 1900, thus dis-
solving the Government, the Hon. S. X. Parent was
called upon to form a government, and he called Mr.
Turgeon to his Cabinet as Commissioner of Coloniza-
tion and Alines, and Secretary and Registrar pro-tern.
Upon the re-organization of the Cabinet in 1903, Afr.
Turgeon was given the portfolio of Minister of Agri-
culture, which he at present holds.
In 1898 Air. Turgeon visited France and repre-
sented the Province of Quebec on the Champlain
Alonument Committee, which met at Honfleur, France,
on July i-jth, receiving from the Government of
France the decoration of Officier d'lnstruction
Publique.'
Mr. Turgeon is President of the Standard Copper
Company and Vice-President of the Levis Gun Club.
He was married in July, 1884, to Eugenie, daughter of
Air. Etiennie Samson, ship-builder, of Quebec, and is
a member of the Garrison Club, Quebec, and of the
St. James Club, Montreal.
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HON. SENATOR FORGET.
The Honorable Louis Joseph Forget, member of
the Canadian Senate, was born at Terrebonne, Que.,
March nth, 1853, and educated at Masson College.
He is descended from an old Norman family which
came to Canada in the seventeenth century. He has
been in business as a stock broker in Montreal since
1873, being the founder and head of the leading firm
of stock brokers of L. J. Forget and Company. He
had the honor of being President of the Montreal
Stock Exchange in 1895 and 1896, and has been close-
ly identified with many of the leading financial cor-
porations of Montreal. He was elected President of
the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company in
February, 1895, and President of the Montreal Street
Railway Company in 1890, and still in office. For
some years he has been a Director and Vice-President
of the Royal Victoria Life Insurance Company.
Vice-President Dominion Cotton Mills Co., etc. He
is Vice-President of the Board of Governors of Laval
University, Montreal ; a Life Governor and Director
of Notre Dame Hospital ; Life Governor of Montreal
General and Western Hospitals ; and a Life Governor
of the Montreal Numismatic and Antiquarian So-
ciety.
He is Conservative in politics and was called to the
Senate in June, 1896. Senator Forget was married
in Montreal in May, 1876, to Maria, daughter of Gus-
tave A. Raymond, and resides at 951 Sherbrooke
Street, Montreal.
He is a member of the Mount Royal, Royal St.
Lawrence Yacht, Montreal Hunt, and St. James
Clubs, Montreal.
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DAVID DEXTER.
David Dexter, of Hamilton, Out, President and
Managing Director of the Federal Life Assurance
Company of Canada, was born April 4th, 1848, near
St. Thomas, Ont. His parents were Ransom and
Margaret Dexter, the former being a clergyman and
farmer, who, when a boy six years of age, came with
his father and mother from New York State to Little
York (Toronto) in the year 1798. When quite a
young man he enlisted in the York Militia, and was
one of the "brave York Volunteers" who won im-
perishable renown with General Brock at the battle of
Queenstown Heights. Mr. Dexter's ancestors on his
father's side emigrated from England to the New
England colonies early in the i8th century. Those on
his mother's side also hailed from England, settling in
Virginia.
Mr. Dexter was educated in St. Thomas, Ont.
Owing to ill health he was taken from school and
taught farming on his father's farm, subsequently for
a few years managing a manufacturing business in St.
Thomas. He left mercantile life to become the mana-
ger of a loan and saving company, filling this position
with marked success till the organization of the Fed-
eral Life in 1881, being managing director of the com-
pany in question from the first.
Mr. Dexter's ability and popularity were testified by
his election to the Presidency of the Life Officers' As-
sociation of Canada. In his leisure hours he has taken
an interest in educational matters, he having been for
fourteen years a member of the Educational Hoard ot
Hamilton, became Chairman of its several Committees
and Chairman of the P.oard. Nor does he neglect the
lighter side of relaxation, being an enthusiastic curler
and bowler.
He was married December. 1868, to Isabella Mc-
Lachlin, of Aylmer, Ont., and has two children, Adah
E., and Zella R. Dexter. He is a member of the Ham-
ilton Club, Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, Hamilton
Jockey Club, Hamilton Thistle Curling Club, all of
Hamilton, and the National Club, Toronto. He is also
a member of the St. George's Society and of the Ma-
sonic Order.
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RODOLPHE FORGET.
Mr. Rodolplie Forget, broker and financier, Mon-
treal, was born in Terrebonne, Qne., December loth,
1 86 1, his father being- a descendent of a respectable
Norman family, -who came to Canada in 1655. He
obtained his education at Masson College, Terrebonne,
and shortly after leaving that institution, came to Mon-
treal, and entered the office of his uncle, and present
partner, Mr. (now Senator,) L. J. Forget. Shortly
afterwards he was taken into partnership, and at pres-
ent the firm of L. J. Forget and Company is one of
the largest, best known and most enterprising stock
broking firms in Canada. In 1889 Mr. Forget was
elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Montreal Stock Ex-
change, but later resigned, and has since refused any
office in that body. Mr. Forget has been a most in-
fluential personality in the Montreal world of finance,
and his influence has been exerted for the betterment
of the financial positions of some of the principal fin-
ancial corporations of Canada. He practically was
instrumental in securing the re-organization of the
Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, and the
modernization of that Company's service. His mind
conceived the idea of the Montreal Light, Heat and
Power Company, and it was largely due to his energy
that the idea was carried out. The capital of the
Company is $17,000,000. He was also chiefly in-
strumental in securing the re-organization of the Mon-
treal Street Railway Company, and the obtaining of
that Company's present contract with the City of Mon-
treal. At present Mr. Forget is President of the
Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, Vice-
President of the Montreal Light, Heat and Power
Company, President of the Royal Electric Company,
Director of the Montreal Gas Company, the Mont-
morency Cotton Company, the Crown Life Insurance
Company, President of The Mount Royal Fire Insur-
ance Company, etc.
Mr. Forget has taken an active and generous in-
terest in charitable and educational work. He is an
administrator of Laval University, Montreal, Gov-
ernor of Notre Dame Hospital, the Montreal General
Hospital and the Western Hospital. He has been
particularly devoted to the interests of Notre Dame
Hospital.
Mr. Forget has been twice married, and has four
children. He was first married October I2th, 1885,
to Miss Alexandra Tourville, and the second time to
Miss Blanche McDonald, April, 1904.
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FREDERICK GEORGE COX,
Prominent in the Canadian insurance world Fre-
derick George Cox, the Managing Director and the
Vice-President of the Imperial Life Insurance Com-
pany of Canada, is the second son of Senator George
A Cox. He was horn on September 2/th, 1866, at
Peterboro, Ontario, where he was educated at the Col-
legiate Institute. Upon completing his education, he
entered the Peterboro office of the Midland Railway,
and occupied a position under Mr. Arthur White, who
was then the General Traffic Manager of the road.
When the road was purchased by the Grand Trunk
System, Mr. Frederick Cox became the Manager of
the Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, re-
maining in that important position until 1897, tne .vear
in which the Imperial Life Insurance Company of Ca-
nada was organized. He was appointed Managing
Director of this Company, and has devoted his entire
time since to its furtherance and development, until it
has become one of the most important and extensive
insurance institutions in Canada, which, in a great
measure has been due to his experience, judgment and
indefatigable efforts. The only other company with
which Mr. Frederick Cox is officially connected is the
Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, of which
he is the Vice- President. A man of great care and
financial intelligence, Mr. Cox is, undoubtedly, an im-
portant factor in the insurance industry of the Domi-
nion and in Toronto business.
In 1889 Frederick George Cox was married to a
daughter of Dr. L. H. Swan, of Woodstock, Ontario.
His residence is at No. 414 Sherbourne street, Toronto.
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DR. WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND.
William Henry Drummond, M.D., L L.D., was
born in 1854, in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, the
son of George Drummond and Elizabeth Soden, his
wife. He came -with his parents to Canada in 1864,
his father dying twelve months later. His mother
is still living. Since coming to Canada Dr. Drum-
mond has always lived in Montreal. He has three
brothei s occupying prominent positions in the busi-
ness community, namely, John J. Drummond, Me-
chanical Engineer, and George E. Drummond, and
Thomas J. Drummond, of the firm of Drummond,
McCall & Company. Dr. Drummond was educated
at the High School of Montreal and Bishops College,
graduating from the last named institution with the
degree of M.D., and entering at once upon the practice
of his profession. Dr. Drummond, at present, oc-
cupies a chair on the medical faculty of his alma mater
as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. Apart from
an honorable place in the medical profession, Dr.
Drummond is widely known in the fields of literature
and sport. He has published several short stories and
three books of verse, namely, "The Habitant," "John-
nie Courteau" and "Phil-o-rum's Canoe," all dealing
with the life of the French Canadian habitant, voya-
geur and trapper. This literary work of Dr. Drum-
mond has been unique, opening up a rich field of hu-
mor, sentiment and pathos previously unexploited, and
doing it so skillfully as to put satisfactory imitation
out of the question. Dr. Drummond has not been
inaptly described as the Bret Harte of French Canada.
In recognition of his literary work Dr. Drummond
had conferred upon him by Toronto University the
degree of L L.D. He is also a Fellow of die Royal
Society of Literature, England, and a fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada. Another hobby of Dr.
Drummond is the protection of fish and game. His
father was a sportman, and so is the doctor. He is
a member of the North American Fish and Game Pro-
tection Association, and the Province of Quebec Fish
and Game Protective Association. For strictly
sporting purposes Dr. Drummond belongs to three
well-known Fish and Game Clubs, the Laurentian, the
St. Maurice and the Winchester Clubs, all situated in
the Province of Quebec.
Dr. Drummond is a member of the Church of Eng-
land, and in politics nonpartisan, believing in meas-
ures rather than party.
ROBERT BICKERDIKE.
Mr. Robert Bickerdike, M.P., live stock shipping
and insurance agent, member of Parliament, repres-
enting Montreal Centre, St. Lawrence Division in the
Canadian House of Commons, was born at Kingston,
Ont, 1843, ms father being the late Thomas Bicker-
dike, of Yorkshire, England.
Although born in Ontario Mr. Bickc-rdike has spent
nearly the whole of his life in the Province of Que-
bec, his father moving to St. Louis de Gonzaque,
Beauharnois County, and taking up a farm there when
his son Robert was quite a child. After acquiring
an elementary education at the country school of the
district, Mr. Bickerdike helped his father for some
time on his farm, but at the age of seventeen moved
to Montreal, shortly after arriving taking his first
position away from home, that of a butcher's boy.
Ten years after he arrived in Montreal he entered into
the pork packing trade for himself. His well-
equipped factory was destroyed by fire, only to arise
again, phoenix-like, from its ashes. In this instance
the work of reconstruction was begun the morning
after the fire. He sat for several years in the St.
Henri town council, and for many years was an en-
ergetic and devoted President of the Protestant Board
of School Commissioners of the same municipality.
In 18/6 he entered the export business, then prac-
tically a new industry, and for the twenty years suc-
ceeding was one of the largest cattle exporters in Can-
ada. He organized the Dominion Abattoir and Stock
Yards Company, the Dominion Live Stock As-
surance Company and the Standard Light and
Power Company. He has for a number of years re-
presented the Marine Department of the Western
Assurance Company, and in addition has for the
past few years assumed the agency for the fire
department for the Island of Montreal.
For many years Mr. Bickerdike has been a director
of the Bank of Hochelaga, and for the past fifteen
years its Vice-President.
He was for many years a member of the Council
of the Montreal Board of Trade, and in 1896 was
elected President of tint influential body. He is a
life governor of the Montreal General Hospital, a life
member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society.
In 1897 he was elected in the Liberal interests to
represent St. Antoine Division of Montreal in the
Quebec Provincial Legislature, and in recognition of
his services on behalf of the City of Montreal, was
tendered and accepted a public banquet given by mem-
bers of the Montreal Board of Trade. In the general
elections of 1900 he resigned his seat in the Quebec
Legislature and was elected to represent St. Law-
rence Division, Montreal, in the House of Commons.
In addition to the positions mentioned above, Mr.
Bickerdike holds many others. He is a member of
the Montreal Board of Harbor Commissioners. Pres-
ident of the Dominion Live Stock Insurance Com-
pany, President of the Robert Bickerdike & Com-
pany, Limited, member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa,
the "Montreal and Canada Clubs, Montreal, a life
member of the M.A.A.A.. and a prominent member
of St. George's Society.
Politically, Mr. Bickerdike is a Liberal, in religion
a Presbyterian. He married in 1866 the eldest
daughter of the late James Reid, formerly of the
7ist Highland Light Infantry. Residence. "Elm-
croft," Summerlea.
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EDWARD WILLIAM COX.
That a man not yet forty years of age should be
called to fill the highest executive position in the Can-
adian insurance world would have been considered
well-nigh an impossibility a few years ago. And yet
it seems the fitting thing to-day that Edward William,
Cox should be General .Manager of the Canada Life
Assurance Company, for he has attained the position
through a series of progressive steps, thoroughly fitt-
ing himself in each position for that above it.
Mr. Cox was born in Peterborough, Ontario, on
the i8th of June, 1864, and is the eldest son of Hon.
Geo. A. Cox, Senator. He was educated at Peter-
borough Collegiate Institute and Toronto University,
devoting his holidays to assisting his father, at that
time manager of the company's largest branch.
In 1885 Air. Cox was admitted as a partner with
his father, and in 1887. when the expansion of their
business made necessary their removal to Toronto, the
commercial centre, he assumed full charge of the
field workers.
Under Mr. Cox's efficient direction the Eastern.
Ontario Branch easily maintained its position as the
largest and most important of the Company, and when
the Canada Life Head Offices were remove'd to Toron-
to in 1899, 't was fitting that Mr. Cox should be tender-
ed the position of Assistant General Manager. This,
office he continued to hold until the annual meeting in,
February, 1902, when he was advanced to the position
of General Manager, whose duties he had for some
time discharged.
While Mr. Cox has attained and held with success
the various offices to which he has been called through
native ability coupled with long and thorough training,
the marked growth of the Company in the past few
years is due not alone to these qualities in its manager.
It is owing rather to that spirit of enthusiasm for his
life work which is a marked characteristic of Mr.
Cox, and which imparts itself to those about him in
office and field.
Mr. Cox, besides being a director in the Canada
Life Assurance Company, is a director in a number of
other important corporations, among them being the
Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, the Bri-
tish America Fire Assurance Company, and the Na-
tional Trust Company.
He is a member of the National Club, the Granite
Club, the Hunt Club and various social organizations.,
He was married on the 24th October, 1888, to a
daughter of the late Charles Brown.
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HUGH WATSON,
Mr. Hugh Watson, of "Hillcrest," Westmount,
Montreal, manufacturer of wall papers, and President
of the Watson, Foster Company, Limited, was born
January 23rd, 1839, at "Sandyflat," Maryhill, Glas-
gow, Scotland. His father was John Watson, a
grain and produce merchant and farmer, while his
mother's maiden name was Ann Goodwin.
Mr. Hugh Watson was educated at the Parish
School of Maryhill, Glasgow, and on completing his
schooling, served for four years in the office of a large
produce commission merchant in Glasgow. He had
a good grounding in sound business habits and
methods which has been of great benefit to him in his
business career.
He came to Montreal in 1860 and joined an elder
brother in an Importing business, principally earthen-
ware, china, paper hangings, etc.. which was carried
on successfully until the year 1880. With the in-
troduction of the National Policy in that year Mr.
Watson, in company with his brother and Mr. F. S.
Foster, both now deceased, started the manufacturing
of wall papers in Montreal, the business, from a com-
paratively small beginning, growing to very consider-
able dimensions.
In the year 1896 the factor}- building occupied
by the company in the city was found too limited ow-
ing to the greatly increased output, and the large and
well-equipped factory, warehouse and offices now oc-
cupied at Maisonneuve were built by the Company,
where very much bettei facilities exist to meet the
growing needs of the business and prospective future
expansion. Besides an extensive trade throughout
the Dominion, Newfoundland and the Yukon, the
Company do a considerable trade in Australia and
New Zealand with every prospect of a much enlarged
business in the near future.
In the year 1897 the business was formed into a
joint stock company — the Watson-Foster Company,
Limited, — of which Mr. Watson has been President
since its organization. Mr. Watson is a member of
the Montreal Hoard of Trade, and for two years, 1902
and 1903, a member of the Council of that body. He
is a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital, a
life governor of the Homeopathic Hospital, Montreal,
a life governor of the Protestant House of Industry
and Refuge, and a life member of the Natural His-
tory Society, Montreal.
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HUGH PATON.
Mr. Hugh Paton, 911 Sherbrookc Street, Montreal,
President of the Sheclden Forwarding Company
(Limited), was born at Johnstone, Renfrewshire,
Scotland, October 5th, 1852. His parents were WH-
liam Paton and Mar}- Shedclen, of Kilbirnie, Ayr-
shire, Scotland. Having received a sound education
at the grammar school at Paisley, Scotland, Mr. Paton
came to Canada in 1871 to join his uncle, the late Mr.
John Shedclen, railway contractor, Toronto. En-
tering Mr. Shcdden's office he remained there until
1873, when Mr. Shedden was killed by a trair while
participating in the celebration of the opening of the
Toronto and Nipissing Railway, of which he was
President. Upon Mr. Shedden's death the busine ;s
he had established as geneial forwarder, carrier and
cartage agent for the Grand Trunk Railway was taken
over by a joint stock company, under the name of the
Shedden Forwarding Company (Limited,), and Mr.
Paton assumed the functions of Secretary-Treasurer
of the company, making his headquarters in Mon-
treal, where he has resided ever since. He occupied
this position until 1879, when he became manager and
secretary, and later President, which position, he at
present holds. Mr. Paton is moreover the principal
shareholder in the company, which has developed its
business greatly, and is one of the most powerful busi-
ness corporations in Canada. He is also Chairman
of the allied company, operating a similar business in
the United States. A shrewd and energetic business
man, Mr. Paton's services have been eagerly sought
after by various other influential commercial bodies,
and besides being President of the Shedden Forward-
ing Company ( Limited j, Montreal, and Chairman of
the Shedden Cartage Company (Limited,), of Detroit,
he is a director of the Bell Telephone Company, of
Canada, the Canadian Transfer Company (Limited,),
the Canadian Express. Company, the Northern Elec-
tric Manufacturing Co., Limited, the Wire and Cable
Company and the Sincenes-McNaughton Company.
Besides his investments in Canada and the United
States, Mr. Paton retains a considerable interest in the
well-known manufacturing firm of Win. Paton (Lim-
ited), in Johnstone, Scotland, established by his late
father, and now directed by his brothers.
Mr. Paton is a great lover of good horses and an
enthusiastic gentleman farmer. He has a beautiful
country home, "The Island," Bord-a-Plouffe, and his
model farming operations extend over property on
Isle Jesu as well as on the Island of Montreal. He
was for four years Honorary Secretary-Treasurer of
the Montreal Tandem Club. From 1879 to 1886 he
was Honorary Secretary-Treasurer of the Montreal
Hunt Club, and in 1887 he was honored with election
as M.F.H.. Mr. Paton has run his own horses at
i.iany meetings and several times carried off the
Queen's Plate. His love for dumb animals led Mr.
Paton to identify himself with the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, and he has been for
some years a member of the Executive Committee of
that body. In 1896 he was elected Vice-President of
the St. Andrew's Society, Montreal, with the charit-
able work of which organization he has been intimate-
ly identified, and in 1897 he was honored with election
to the position of president.
In 1884 he was married to Isabella, daughter of
the late Andrew Robertson, a former well-known Mon-
treal merchant, whose name was long identified with
the position of Chairman of the Harbor Commission-
ers.
Mr. Paton is a member of the Mount Royal, St.
James and City Clubs, Montreal, Royal and Outre-
mont Golf Clubs, Montreal Racket Club, Forest and
Stream Club, Dorval ; Montreal Hunt Club, the To-
ronto Club ; the Manitoba Club, Winnipeg ; Manhat-
tan Club, New York, and the Junior Athenaeum
Club, London, England.
CHARLES FLEETFORD SISE.
Charles Fleetford Sise, Montreal, President of the
Bell Telephone Company of Canada, was born in the
United States in 1834, his father being Edward Fleet-
ford Sise, merchant and ship owner. Mr. Sise's
grandfather, Edward Sise, went to the United States
from Ireland in 1784.
After being educated in the United States, Mr.
Sise went to sea for several years, and after command-
ing vessels in the Atlantic, Pacific and Australian
Lines, took charge of his father's shipping and cotton
business at New Orleans and Mobile. After the
Civil War in the United States he went to England
as head of the Liverpool House. He came to Can-
ada in 1880, and established the P>ell Telephone Com-
pany of Canada, being connected with that powerful
corporation ever since. He also identified himself
with other important business corporations of his
adopted country. At the present time he is Presi-
dent of the Hell Telephone Company, the Wire and
Cable Company, the Northern Electric & Manufac-
turing Company and the Xorth American Telegraph
Company. He is a Director of the Canadian West-
inghouse Company, the Xorth P>ritish & Mercantile
Insurance Company, the Sincennes McXaughton Line,
the Nova Scotia Telephone Company and the New
Brunswick Telephone Company.
Mr. Sise is a member of the St. James's Club,
Mount Royal Club, Hunt Club, and Forest and Stream
Club of Montreal, the Algonquin Club, Boston ; Ridcau
Club, Ottawa, and Toronto Club, Toronto.
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HORMISDAS LAPORTE.
Hormisdas Laporte, Mayor of the City of Mon-
treal, is the senior member of the great wholesale
grocery firm of Laporte, Martin and Company, St.
Peter St., Montreal. He was born November 6th, 1850,
at the village of. Lachine, Jacques Cartier County,
One., his parents being Jean ISaptiste Laporte, miller,
and Marie Jubinville, his wife. His ancestors were
ami ing the earliest settlers from France.
.Mayor Laporte, as he is proud to admit, is pre-
eminently a self-made man. After an elementary
education at the village school of Sault an Recollet,
lie worked in a nail factory until 1870, when lie
started business for himself in a modest way as a re-
tail grocer on St. James street. Under shrewd, care-
ful management the business rapidly expanded, and
in 1881 it had taken on somewhat of a wholesale
character. In 1889 the business became a wholesale
one entirely, and Mr. Laporte took into partnership
Mr. J. 1!. A. Martin, at the time manager of another
wholesale firm and J. ( ). Boucher, his chief clerk, and
in 1897 he admitted as partner Mr. L. A. DeLorme,
his head book-keeper, Mr. Jos. Ethier, his head sales-
man, and Mr, J. A. Martin. These gentlemen, with
the principal, still constitute the firm of Laporte, Mar-
tin & Co., whose record of continuous success has
seldom been equalled in any city on the Continent.
The firm are direct importers from Europe, India,
China, Japan and the "West Indies. Mr. Laporte is
connected with many commercial and financial insti-
tutions, being a director of the Banque Provinciale,
the National Life Assurance Company, La Sauve-
garde Insurance Co., and American Surety Co. He
is, and has been for some years, President of the
Dominion Wholesale Grocers' Guild, and President of
the Alliance Nationale. He is an ex-President of
the Chambre of Commerce, Montreal, and an ex-
member of the Council of the Montreal Board of
Trade.
Mayor Laporte's name, even before his election
to fill the Mayoralty Chair, was a household word in
Montreal, on account of the excellent work he had
doiie as leader of the reform movement in the City
Council, which effected great economies in the civic
administration during the years succeeding 1899. ^n
this part of his municipal work he required an un-
usual amount of courage, resource, public spirit and
judgment, and he has never been found lacking in any
of those respects. He was elected Mayor of Mon-
treal by a majority of 12,500, Februaly ist, 1904, both
of his opponents losing their deposits, polling less than
half the number of votes obtained by Mr. Laporte.
Mrs. Laporte's maiden name was Mirza Gervais,
and her family consists of a daughter and son, Maria
and Joseph:
Mayor Laporte is a member of the St. Vincent de
Paul Society, and a member and Vice-President of the
St. Jean Baptiste Society.
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LIEUT, -COLONEL EDYE.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lour'enco Edye, Commissioner
of the Trust and Loan Company of Canada in Mon-
treal, was born in South America, at Rio de Janeira
on 2nd March, 1849. He was educated in Paris and
England. Joining H. M. Royal Marines as Second-
Lieutenant, on 28th December, 1866, his military rec-
ord is an enviable and honorable one. He was pro-
moted First-Lieutenant 3rd August, 1867 ; Captain
ist July, 1881 ; Brevet Major, 8th December, 1887 ;
Major, 29th August, 1888; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel,
8th December, 1894; and Lieutenant-Colonel, 8th De-
cember, 1895. In addition to the list of rapid pro-
motions, Lieutenant-Colonel Edye received during his
career various appointments from time to time, the
principal of which were Interpreter to Her Majesty's
Fleet (China Station) 28th October, 1870; Assistant-
Instructor in Musketry (Chatham Division,), I5th No-
vember, 1879; Captain and Quartermaster, Battalion
Royal Marines for service in Egypt, 4th August, 1882 ;
Captain and Paymaster, 2nd Battalion Royal Marines,
for service in Egypt, 8th November, 1884; Signalling
Officer to the R. M. Forces for service in the Soudan,
1st March, 1885 ; Brigade Signaller, 2nd Brigade, by
Sir J. McNeil, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., in Soudan
Campaign, 8th April, 1885 ; Instructor of Gymnasia
R. M. Depot, Walmer and Member of the Naval In-
telligence Department, Admiralty, ist February, 1892.
In order also to qualify for service in the Judge Ad-
vocates Department he studied for and was called to
the English Bar, Middle Temple, 1886.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edye served as Captain and
Quartermaster of the Royal Marine Battalion during
the War in Egypt, 1882. He was present at the ac-
tion of Malaha as Orderly Officer to Commanding Of-
ficer R. M. (mentioned in despatches), present at the
actions of El-Magfar, Tel-el-Mahuta, Masarneh, Kas-
sassin Lock, Kassassin, and Tel-el-Kebir (Egypt Med-
al, Clasp for Tel-el-Kebir, Khedive Bronze Star). He
served with the Royal Marine Battalion in the East
Soudan (1884-5,), f°r tne defence of Suakim, as Cap-
tain and Paymaster, 2nd Battalion Royal Marines, for
service in Egypt. Afterwards as Signalling Officer
during the operations in advance of Suakim. He
was present at the actions of Hasbeen, Tofrek (the
Zerebaj, Reconnaissance on Jeselah, and capture and
burning, being mentioned in the despatches, and re-
ceiving clasps for Suakim, 1885, and Tofrek. Be-
sides being awarded numerous certificates of conduct
and honorary mentions in the despatches, he received
the thanks of the Lord Commissioners of the Admir-
alty for services rendered at the wreck of the big
"Eliza" in Mount Batten Bay during a furious gale on
8th December, 1872, and again was the recipient of
thanks from the same high officials for services ren-
dered at the Naval Intelligent Department between the
years 1892 and 1897.
Retiring from active service in 1898, Colonel Edye
was offered the appointment which he now fills as a
Commissioner of the Trust and Loan Company of
Canada, which he accepted, coming to Canada in the
same year. He has chief control of the Montreal
Branch of that pioneer financial institution.
On 5th July, 1873, Colonel Edye married Clara
Frances, daughter of Richard Laws, of the Honorable
East India Company. His only child, Russell Ern-
est Courtenay Edye in due course entered H. M.
Army, and is now a Captain in the South Lancashire
Regiment, Third Battalion, and has already rendered
distinguished military services to his country.
Colonel Edye is a member of the United Service
Club, London, and the St. James Club, Montreal.
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JOHN LANG MORRIS, ICC
John Lang- Morris, K.C.. a leading member of the
liar of Montreal was horn at Perth, Out., in 1835,
his parents being the late Hon. William Morris, form-
erly Receiver-General of Canada, and Elizabeth
Cochran, his wife. Mr. Morris was educated at the
High School of Montreal and McGill University,
graduating with the degree of R.C.L., and being
called to the liar in 1859. He has practiced his pro-
fession continuously in Montreal, his partners at
various times including the late Judge Torrance. the
late T. \Y. Ritchie, O.C., and Mr. (now Sir) \Vm.
Rose. He is now practicing with Mr. C. M. Holt,
K.C. Mr. Morris has made a specialty of commer-
cial, civil and ecclesiastical law, and" has attained
distinction in those branches of his profession. He
was created a Q.C. by the Marquis of Lansdowne,
then Governor-General, in 1887.
Mr. Morris is an Elder, and a very well-known
member of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, es-
pecially on account of the very active part he took in
connection with the union movement in 1875. He has
been counsel of the Church for many years, and repre-
sented the Church and conducted successfully the vari-
ous cases concerning the Temporalities funds, before
the Imperial Privy Council and the committees of the
Canadian Parliament. Mr. Morris is Vice-President
of the Montreal Loan and Mortgage Company. Mr.
Morris is an ardent devotee of the game of golf, and
has contributed in a very considerable degree to the
development of the sport in Canada.
Mr. Morris, like his father and his elder brother,
the late Lieut. -Governor Morris of Manitoba, is a Con-
servative in politics, but has never been a candidate
for public office.
In 1860 he married Agnes, youngest daughter of
the late Dr. M. McCulloch, Montreal, and he resides at
present in the Bellevue Apartment House. Mr. Mor-
ris is a member of the Mount Royal Club, and a mem-
ber and ex-Captain of the Royal Montreal Golf Club.
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SIR C ALPHONSE P. PELLETIER,
The Honorable Sir Charles Alphonse Pantaleon
Pelletier, K.C.M.G., K.C., B.C.L., LL.D., P.C.,
etc., was born at Riviere Ouelle, Que., January 22nd,
1837, his parents being the late J. M. Pelletier, of that
place, and his wife, Julie, daughter of Joseph Pain-
chand. He obtained his primary and classical edu-
cation at the Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere College, after
wards entering the law faculty of Laval University,
Quebec, and graduating with the degree of B.C.L. in
1858. Two years later he was called to the P>ar at
Quebec, beginning a lengthy practice at the P>ar of
that district, which brought him much distinction.
He has acted in the capacity of Syndic and Batonnier
of the Bar of Quebec, and was created a Q.C. in 1897.
He is the City Attorney of Quebec since over thirty
years.
Like so many other members of the Bar in the
Province of Quebec Sir Alphonse Pelletier has, from
his youth, devoted much attention to politics. He is,
and always has been, an ardent Liberal. He repre-
sented Kamouraska in the House of Commons from
1869 to February 2nd, 1877, when he was called to
the Senate of Canada, as Government leader in that
chamber, he having entered the MacKenzie Cabinet
as Minister of Agriculture on January 26th, of the
same year. During part of his term as a member of
the House of Commons, from February, 1873, to Jan-
uary, 1874, he also represented Quebec East in the
Quebec Legislature, retiring from that Assembly in
accordance with an Act putting a stop to dual repre-
sentation. He retained the portfolio of Minister of
Agriculture until the retirement of the MacKenzie
Government in October, 1878. While Minister, he
acted as President of the Canadian Commission at the
Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878, and received the
C.M.G. in recognition of his services. He \vas speak-
er of the Senate from July 1896 to 1901, and was cre-
ated K. C.M.G. May 241)1, 1898. Received from Laval
University Hon. degree of L.L.I)., 19(32.
Sir Alphonse Pelletier, while yet a young man,
joined the Militia force and was on active service with
his regiment, the 9th Voltigeurs, Quebec, at the time
of the Trent Affair. He became Captain and adju-
tant of the 9th in 1863, was promoted Major in i86f>.
commanded his regiment during the Fenian Raid cf
that year, and retired retaining rank. Sir Alphonse's
son, Lieut. -Colonel Oscar Charles Casgrain Pe'.letier,
has inherited his father's military spirit. lie entered
the 9th as a subaltern in 1884, and the following year
was transferred to the Royal Canadian Artillerv, he
having the same year, as an attached officer, gon,e
through the Northwest Campaign with B. Battery, and
being' severelv wounded in the action at Cut Knife
Hill, where lie greatly distinguished himself. In
1897 he was appointed D.O.C. at Quebec. Lieut. Col-
onel Oscar Pelletier accompanied the ist Canadian
Contingent to South Africa as major, being severely
wounded at Paarderberg, and mentioned in despatches.
Taking a great interest in the national movement
among the French Canadians, Sir Alphonse Pelletier
has been several years President of the St. Jean Bap-
tiste Society of Quebec. He is Vice- President of the
Quebec Fire Assurance Company. He has been twice
married, first in 1861 to Susanne, daughter of the late
Hon. Charles E. Casgrain, M.L.C., who died in 1862,
and secondly in 1866, to Virginie A., second daughter
of the late Hon. M. P. deSales La Terriere, M.D., and
M.L.C.
Sir Alphonse Pelletier is a member of the Garrison
Club.
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CHARLES ALEXANDER.
Mr. Charles Alexander, Montreal, retired confec-
tioner and Justice of the Peace, was born in 1816, at
Dundee, Scotland, his father being John Alexander
and his mother's maiden name, Marina Mudie. Hav-
ing been educated at the Parochial Grammar School
at Dundee, he was apprenticed to the great firm of
Keillor and Sons, who are famous the world over as
manufacturers of marmalade, etc. April 5th, 1840,
Mr. Alexander left Dundee for Montreal on the ship
Atlantic, which ran ashore and was wrecked during
the night of May 5th at Torbay, near St. Johns, New-
foundland. All of- the passengers, with the exception
of one. boy, were saved ; all of their possessions with
the exception of what they had on were lost. It was
June before the ship-wrecked immigrants reached Mon-
treal, and for a year after his arrival he worked at his
trade, removing at the end of that period to London,
Out., where he entered into a partnership with Mr.
11. J. Matthewson. At the end of another year he
returned to Montreal, where, after working as a
journeyman for some months, opened in business for
himself in 1842. He started in the general confec-
tionery and manufacturing business, and established
the pioneer temperance dining rooms in Montreal.
Public spirited and charitable to a degree, he was
identified with church and municipal work, even in
the days of his early struggles. In 1845 he was elect-
ed deacon of Zion Church, and as an active member
of a committee of the St. Andrew's Society, went to
Quebec to look after the survivors of the steamer Mon-
treal, destroyed by fire on the way from Quebec to
Montreal. For several years he represented West
Ward in the City Council, was Chairman of the Fin-
ance Committee, and also represented Montreal in the
Quebec Legislature as an independent Liberal, in that
capacity being largely instrumental in securing a re-
formatory school as a separate place of detention for
the younger class of criminals. He was also largely
instrumental in securing the establishment of a separ-
ate jail for female offenders. The list of official posi-
tions in charitable institutions held by Mr. Alexander
is a formidable one, being in part as follows : — Mem-
ber of the Board of Management of the Montreal Gen-
eral Hospital from 1860 to May, 1900, when, he, then
being Vice-President, resigned, owing to increasing
deafness. Elected on first Board of Management
Protestant House of Industry and Refuge, 1863, life
member 1867, President 1887 to 1900, when, resign-
ing he was elected Honorary- President ; President of
the Boys Home since its erection, 1873; Member of
the Board of Management of the Mackay Institute
for Deaf Mutes and blind since the beginning of the
work, and President for the first six years, at the end
of that time resigning in favor of the late Joseph Mac-
kay ; re-elected President in 1900, and still holding
office. One of the founders of the Protestant Hos-
pital for the Insane, Verdun, is a life governor ; was
Vice-President and is now Honorary Vice-President.
Vice-President for many years of the Montreal Sail-
ors Institute and now President. Has been and is
still President of the Canadian S. P. C. A. Is a
founder and still committeeman of the S. P. W. & C.,
is a life member of the M.A.A.A., Mechanics Insti-
tute, Caledonian Society, Orphan Asylum, Y. M.
C. A., Montreal Dispensary. President of the
Homeopathic Association, and of the Widows and Or-
phans Fund of the Congregational Union of Canada.
Chairman and Hon. -Treasurer of the Fresh Air Fund,
and a trustee of the Sheltering Home. Member of
the Montreal Board of Trade, Citizens League, Good
Government Asssociation, and Montreal Aft Associa-
tion.
In 1838 Mr. Alexander was married in Dundee,
Scotland, to Margaret Kyle, and there have been issue
of the union the following sons and daughters : —
Thor..as K. Alexander, Henry M., Charles M., Mrs.
Robert Warren, of Chicago, John F., James K., and
Mrs. Robert Darling, of Toronto. Of the above
Thomas K., Henry M., and James K. are deceased.
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JOHN ALEXANDER MURRAY.
No merchant in Ontario is perhaps more widely
or favorably known than Major John Alexander Mur-
ray, Vice-President of the famous Toronto dry goods
house of W. A. Murray & Co., Limited. He was born
on the 1 7th July, 1854, in Limerick, Ireland, where his
father the late W. A. Murray was for several years
head silk buyer for Messrs. Todd & Co. The follow-
ing year the family came to Hamilton, Canada, where
they remained for two years, when they removed to
Toronto, when Major Murray's father established the
firm of "Wylie & Murray." A short time after Mr.
Wylie retired and the W. A. Murray & Co., was then
formed. Major Murray was educated at St. Michael's
College, Toronto, and St. Hyacinthe's College,. St
Hyacinthe, Quebec. On completing his studies he en-
tered his father's business and has since devoted his
time to its management and development until it has
grown into the vast enterprise which exists at the pre-
sent time with a reputation for high class goods and
honorable dealing unexcelled in the Dominion. He is
also President of the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing
Co., Limited, which concern has developed by leaps
and bounds, and to-day is acknowledged as makers of
the best goods in their particular line in the Dominion
of Canada. The Major is exceedingly popular, and
equally well-known through his military career. For
the past twenty-six years he has been a member of the
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, first joining as a pri-
vate in 'F' Company, and a couple of years later taking
a commission. He took a prominent part in reforming
the Old University Company of that regiment, and
now holds the high rank of Senior Alajor, and second
in command of that splendid body of loyal Canadians.
He takes the warmest interest in athletic sports, and
all the great Canadian games and pastimes. One of
his early exploits is still fresh in the memory of many
in aquatic circles when he rowed in 1877 with Telfer
Arthurs across the lake to Xiagara, accomplishing the
trip in eight hours. The Major is a member of the
National Club and in politics a Conservative.
Major .Murray has also been greatly interested in
the development of the Scarborough Heights, his own,
delightful country house being situated on the Heights
overlooking the lake. He married a daughter of Cap-
tain Chas. Perry and has four children. Charles
Alexander liruce, John Allan, Mary Marjorie and
Gordon M. Murray — his town residence is at 170
Jarvis St.
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CHARLES M. HOLT, ICC, LL.D.
Mr. Charles M. Holt, K.C., L L.D., is a native of
Quebec, being a son of the late Judge Charles G. Holt,
of that city. He was educated at Bishops College
School, Lennoxville, and Laval University. He is a
member of the Montreal liar, and of the Library Com-
mittee of that body. He is lecturer in McGill Uni-
versity, post graduate course ; author of the standard
work, 'Insurance Law of Canada,' cited in our Courts
in all important insurance cases, and lecturer on In-
surance Law. He has been a contributor of law ar-
ticles of wide reputation to various legal journals, and
has been in active legal practice in Montreal ever since
his admission to the Bar.
Mr. Holt is a Director of the Montreal General
Hospital, the Charity Organization Society, the Anti-
Tuberculosis League, the Lennoxville School Asso-
ciation and other educational and charitable institu-
tions.
In politics Mr. Holt is a Conservative, in religion
a Presbyterian, and he is married to Mabel, daughter
of the late Senator Cochrane. His residence is No.
215 Milton Street, Montreal, and he is a member of
the Royal Montreal Golf Club, the Montreal Hunt
Club and the St. James Club.
JOHN PHILIP WISER.
Of the prominent men in Canada who had their
birthplace in the United States and have cast in their
lot as British subjects with Canada, is John Philip
Wiser, of the town of Prescott, in the Province of On-
tario.
Born in Trenton, Oneida County, in the State of
New York, one of the United States of America, the
son of Isaac John Wiser and Mary Egert, his wife,
educated in the schools of his native County, he came
to Canada as manager for Egert and Averall, then con-
ducting the distillery business in Prescott.
In the year 1857 he purchased an interest in the
firm and in the year 1862 acquired all his partner's
interest in the distillery business. This business has
been operated by Mr. Wiser since 1857, and its pro-
ducts are sold throughout the Dominion of Canada and
exported to the United States, China and the Philip-
pine Islands.
The distillery gives employment to nearly 100 men
and is the third in capacity in the Dominion. Besides
the above Messrs. J. P. Wiser & Sons, Ltd., which is
the present style of the firm of which Mr. Wiser is
President, own and operate in connection with their
farm of 600 acres, situated half mile west of Prescott,
a large brick yard, giving employment to forty men in
the manufacture of pressed and common brick and
drain tile.
The stables in connection with the distillery are
capable of feeding 1000 cattle. From these barns the
first cattle were exported to Great Britain, and Mr.
Wiser can claim to be the pioneer in the export cattle
trade.
In addition to his interest in Canada, Mr. Wiser
was the President of the Dominion Cattle Co. that
operated a ranch of 1,750,00x3 acres in the PanHandle
district of Texas, U.S., when their lands were opened
for settlement by the United States. Mr. Wiser ac-
quired a ranch in Lyon & Waubunsee Counties, Kan-
sas, where he had as many as 4,000 cattle that were
bred and fattened for the Kansas City and Chicago
markets. Selling out the above interests in 1895, he
has since confined his attention to his business in Pres-
cott.
To the live stock industry of Canada, the enterprise
and intelligence of Mr. Wiser has been of great value.
He served as a member of the ( Jntario Agricultural
Commission in 1880, and imported at great expense
the celebrated Rysdyk 1 lambletonian Stallion and
other high-bred trotting stock into Canada, notably
Chestnut Hill, Phil Sheridan, Hiram Woodruff, Or-
ient, Win. IJ. Smith, i'.arbara Patchen and Joe ISrown,
which were trained and stood on his farm.
Mr. Wiser is President of the 1'rescott Elevator Co.
and a director in the Montreal Stock Yards Co., Mon-
treal Lighterage Co., and Imperial Starch Co.
A Liberal in politics, he was returned to the House
of Commons in 18/8, but did not seek re-election.
Married to Emily, second daughter of Hon. H.
Godard, of St. Lawrence County, X.Y. Issue, four
sons and two daughters. Harlow G., Eugene Franlc,
John Abel, Isaac P., Mary Kate and Alice Maude.
Those surviving are Eugene F., Treasurer ; Isaac P.,
Vice-President of J. P. Wiser & Sons, Ltd., and Mary
Kate, wife of W. C. Brown, Chief Engineer of the
Worthington Pump Co., of Brooklyn, N.Y.
GEORGE G. FOSTER, ICC
Mr. George Greene Foster. K.C.. attorney, of
Montreal, was born at Knowlton, One., Jan. 2ist.,
1860, his parents being Samuel Willard Foster and
Kllen Greene, his wife. Mr. Foster was educated at
Knowlton Academy and McGill University, Montreal,
graduating from the last-named institution of learning
with the degree of 15.C.L., in March, 1881. After be-
ing admitted to the liar, he practised his profession at
Knowlton from July, 1881 to August, 1886, coming to
Montreal in the latter year and has practised here ever
since. Me has been associated at different times in
partnership with the Hon. Judge W. W. Lynch, Judge
J. S. Archibald, and Judge Girouard of the Supreme
Court of Canada, and is at present at the head of the
firm of Foster, Martin, Archibald & Mann. This firm
has a large general, railway and insurance practice,
having been engaged in the principal insurance litiga-
tion in Montreal for ten years, always on behalf of the
insurance companies. The firm are the attorneys for
the New York Central Railway, the St. Lawrence &
Adirondack Railway, the Rutland Railway, the Mid-
land Railway, and the Or ford Mountain Railway.
A member of an old Conservative family, and a
staunch member of the Conservative party himself,
Mr. Foster has always taken an active interest in
public affairs, and in 1896 unsuccessfully contested the
County of Brome, being defeated by the Hon. S. A.
Fisher, Minister of Agriculture. Was elected presi-
dent of the Eastern Townships Conservative Associa-
tion in 1894.
Mr. Foster was married January 1st, 1896, to Mary
Maud, only daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Justice
Buchanan, and their family consists of a son and
daughter, George Buchanan Foster and Ruth Elizabeth
Foster.
Mr. Foster is a member of the Rideau Club,
Ottawa ; the Montreal Club, and the Montreal Hunt
Club.
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DUNCAN McNAB McEACHRAN,
F.R.C.V.S. Lon., V.S. Edin., D.V.S. McGill.
Duncan McNab McEachran, until very recently
Dean of the Faculty of Comparative Medicine of Mc-
Gill University, was born at Campbelltown, Argyle-
shire, Scotland, Oct. 27111,1841. Duncan McEachran,
after receiving a sound elementary education at the
schools of his native place, at the age of seventeen pro-
ceeded to Edinburgh to complete his education, and
soon after, entering the Veterinary College there, com-
menced the study of veterinary surgery under the late
Professor Dick. Shortly after completing his pro-
fessional studies, in the autumn of 1862, he came to
Canada, and for three years engaged with marked
success in the practice of his profession at Woodstock,
Ontario, at the same time preceding to Toronto dur-
ing part of the winter to give lectures on professional
subjects. In 1866 he removed to Montreal, where
he soon built up a large and lucrative practice.
Through the influence of the late Major Campbell,
President of the Board of Agriculture, and supported
by Principal (later Sir William,) Dawson, and the late
Dr. G. W. Campbell, Dean of the Medical Faculty of
McGill University, an arrangement was made whereby
Professor McEachran was to deliver a course of lec-
tures on veterinary science in connection with the
regular medical course of the University. This may
be said to have been the nucleus of the Montreal Vet-
erinary College.
In 1875, to accommodate the increasing number of
veterinary students the Montreal Veterinary College
was established by Dr. McEachran, and the College
buildings on Union Avenue, erected at the personal
expense of the founder and principal. This college
was long considered the very highest of its class in
America, and ranked high among the veterinary col-
leges of Europe. The Montreal Veterinary College
made rapid progress, the thoroughness of its system
of training, and the high standing of its graduates
attracting students from all parts of the United States,
Canada, the West Indian Islands, Japan and Great
Britain. In 1890, the college became more closely
affiliated with McGill University, becoming the Fac-
ulty of Comparative Medicine, its Principal, Dr. Mc-
Eachran, taking the official position of Dean of the
Faculty, which position he held till March, 1903, when
he resigned his position on the staff of the University,
having decided to devote his whole attention to his
western stock raising enterprise. It was on the ad-
vice of Dr. McEachran that the Dominion Govern-
ment created the present cattle and quarantine service,
Dr. McEachran was appointed Chief Inspector for
the Dominion, and was practically given charge of
the organization of the service. This position he
held for twenty-six years, when he resigned, taking
the position of Hon. -Adviser to the Government on
all matters relating to health of animals. The thor-
oughness of his work has since been abundantly test-
ed. The export cattle trade also owes much to Dr.
McEachran's skill and foresight, for in the early days
of the trade he did much to direct it along the right
channels, and to secure the enforcement of eminently
sensible government regulations which have done
much to assure the steady advancement of the trade.
He repeatedly represented Canada at Scientific Con-
gresses in German}- and liritain, the last being the Tub-
erculosis Congress held at London in 1891.
On the raising of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons to university rank in 1875 J-*r- McEachran
was elected a fellow, being the only Canadian thus
honored. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace
in 1886, and served in the Active Militia for ten
years as veterinary surgeon of the 3rd (Montreal)
Field Battery. He did good service in assisting ma-
terially in raising and organizing the famous Strath-
cona Horse. Dr. McEachran was one of the original
pioneers of the Alberta ranching industry. In 1881,
four years in advance of the C. P. R. line, he visited
Alberta in company with the late Senator M. H.
Cochrane, of Compton. They proceeded via the Mis-
souri river to Fort Benton, Mont., thence driving
across the plains to the site of the present city of Cal-
gary at the junction of the Bow and Elbow rivers. He
was Vice-President of the Cochrane Ranche Company
till 1883, when he became General Manager of the
Walrond Cattle Ranche Company, of which the late
Sir John Walrond, Bart., was President, and which
is now the largest and one of the most successful
ranches in Canada. Dr. McEachran being the present
President and General Manager.
June Qth, 1868, Dr. McEachran was married to
Esther, youngest daughter of the late Timothy Plas-
kett of St Croix, West Indies, and their family con-
sisted of two daughters, Evelyn Victoria, who died
May 24th, 1869, and Jennie Blackney McEachran, now
Mrs. H. B. Young, Westmount, Montreal.
Dr. McEachran is a member of the St. James
Club. Montreal, the Forest and Stream Club, the
Manitoba Club, Winnepeg, and MacLeod Club, Al-
berta.
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RANDOLPH HERSEY.
Randolph Hcrsey, Montreal, President of the
Pillow and Hersey Manufacturing Company, Limited,
was born at Canton, Oxford County, Maine, Nov.
30th, 1829, his parents being John Hersey and Mary
Howe Holland, his wife. Mr. Kersey's ancestors
came from England in 1630, and 1635 settling in
Massachusetts ; his father was a farmer, merchant and
manufacturer of starch ; he also held important official
positions in the Town, County and State where he re-
sided.
Mr. Hersey received a common school education,
such as was obtainable in the country sixty to seventy,
years ago ; also atended a High School three terms of
about twelve weeks each. At the age of sixteen he
was obliged to provide for himself, his father having
lost his property, caused by the great blight to pota-
toes (Potatoe Rot). The same year terrible distress
was caused in Ireland, many dying from starvation
through the same cause. The disease among potatoes
was so great that it was impossible to procure them
for starch-making, and his father being under con-
tract to Boston merchants to supply them with starch,
had to succumb to the inevitable. He had just
property enough to pay his liabilities in full, which he
did, leading him pennyless. Mr. Hersey left Ills
home, went to Massb.. nussetts, learned the trade of
making shoes, worked at that trade in Massachus-
setts, Maine, St. Louis, Missouri, and New York
City, and was purser on a freight and passenger
steamboat, plying on the Ohio, Mississippi, Cumber-
land and Illinois Rivers. Now-a-days this craft would
be called a "tramp" boat. Mr. Hersey abandoned
steamboating on account of his duties entailing so
much night work. There with various other employ-
ments, attended with trials more or less severe, as is
usual with young men in starting out for themselves,
occupied Mr. Hersey's time until 1852, when he came
to Montreal and has made that city his home since.
He learned the trade of making cut nails with his
uncle, Mansfield Holland, of the firm of Holland &
Dunn, who were among the first to manufacture nails
in Canada. During this year Mr. Dunn sold out to
Mr. Holland and went to Australia, where the gold ex-
citement was a* its height. The following year, 1853,
Mr. Hersey was made foreman of the shop, subse-
quently becoming a partner in the business. In 1858
and 1859 Mr. Holland built the first Rolling Mill in
Montreal, the one now operated by the Pillow & Her-
sey M'f'g. Co. It was removed from Mill street, its
original site, to St. Patrick street, the area on the
former street being too small for the increasing
business.
In 1862 Mr. Hersey sold his interest in the nail
business to his uncle and his uncle's son, and entered
the firm of T. D. Bigelow & Son, which was founded
by Mr. T. D. Bigelow 's father, the pioneer nail-maker
in Canada. After the death of Mr. T. D. Bigelow
(about 1864) the firm's name changed toj. T. Bige-
low & Co., the partners being J. T. Bigelow,
Randolph Hersey and John A. Pillow. This
Company continued for three years. Then the
year after the death of J. T. Bigelow, the
firms name was changed to that of Pillow,
Hersey & Co., the partners being John A. Pillow
and Randolph Hersey. In 1887 the Company
was incorporated under the name of the "Pillow
& Hersey M'f'g. Co., Ltd.," with Randolph Hersey
as President, John A. Pillow, Vice-President and Gen-
eral Manager, and Mr. W. S. Bryden, Secretary. Mr.
John A. Pillow was made President in 1890 and held
the office till his death in February, 1902. Mr. Her-
sey was then again elected President and still holds
that office.
The plant of the Pillow and Hersey Manufacturing
Company in Montreal, now covers 250,000 square feet
and gives employment to about 700 employees., The
paid up capital of the Company is $600,000, and the
product of its works goes all over the world, though
its chief market is found in Canada.
Mr. Hersey being a man of wide experience and
sound business judgment, holds responsible positions
in other commercial corporations, being Vice-President
of the Page, Hersey Iron and Tube Company, and Di-
rector of the Gould Cold Storage Company.
Mr. Hersey was married in 1856 to Miss Mary
Louise Price, of the union, there being ten children,
eight sons and two daughters, of whom six sons and
one daughter are still living. After the death of his
first wife, he, in 1874, married Miss Margaret Ann
Crawford, of which mafriage there have been four
daughters, all of whom are living.
He is a life governor of the Montreal General
Hospital, the Western Hospital and the Protestant
Hospital for the Insane. For more than forty years
he has been a member of the Mechanics' Institute.
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R. WILSON-SMITK
Mr. Richard Wilson-Smith came to Montreal from
Ireland about a quarter of a century ago, and has lived
in the commercial metropolis of Canada ever since,
building up in the interval a business and a place in the
public life of the city, which have placed him in the
very fore-front of financial and public affairs in Mont-
real. A few years after arriving in Montreal, Mr. R.
Wilson-Smith became publisher and chief editor of the
" Insurance and Finance Chronicle," a publication
which has since occupied a prominent place in the
financial journalism of Canada. As a tribute to his
position in the journalistic world, Mr. Wilson-Smith
was elected President of the Province of Quebec Press
Association. He has become best known as a financial
agent and investment broker, and has very extensive
and valuable connections. As an authority on insur-
ance and financial matters he has few equals, a remark-
able tribute to his capability as a financier and to his
high standing in the community, being the tender to
him by the Hon. E. J. Flynn, Prime Minister of the
Province of Quebec, in 1896, of the office of Provincial
Treasurer, an offer Mr. Wilson-Smith declined. In
1893 he was elected to the City Council of Montreal as
alderman for St. Lawrence Ward, and at once took a
leading position among the party of aldermen specially
interested in the subject of municipal reform. His ad-
vice and experience proved particularly valuable in
connection with the discussion of the grave financial
problems with which the city was at that time con-
fronted. He was largely instrumental in securing the
passage of the legislation which put a period to reckless
expenditures, and fixed reasonable limits to the city's
borrowing power. To accomplish these important
reforms Mr. Wilson-Smith secured and held the hearty
co-operation of the Council of the Board of Trade and
leading bankers as well as of others of the most influ-
ential members of the financial community, a powerful
deputation accompanying him to Quebec, and support-
ing him in his demands for restrictive amendments to
*he City Charter. As a reward for his invaluable ser-
vices of the city, Mr. Wilson-Smith was in 1896,
unanimously elected Mayor of Montreal, a position he
filled with conspicuous dignity and success. During
his term of office many important events took place,
such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and the visits of
the British Medical Association, the British Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, and the largest
squadron of British warships which has ever come to
Montreal. On his retirement from his two years'
mayoralty term, the citizens tendered him a banquet at
the Windsor Hotel and also presented him with an
address. Those present at the banquet included the
Governor-General, the Premier, the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, the Roman Catholic and Protestant Archbishops,
and other leading citizens of Canada. In the general
elections of the same year he unsuccessfully contested
St. Lawrence division for the House of Commons in
the Conservative interest.
In 1892 Mr. Wilson-Smith became a member of the
Montreal Board of Trade, and in 1898 he purchased a
seat on the Montreal Stock Exchange, forming a
separate partnership with Mr. G. H. Meldrum, under
the name of R. Wilson-Smith, Meldrum & Company,
in connection with stock exchange business. In 1897
he formed a syndicate to which was allotted $1,250,000
of the Fielding loan.
He has large interests in several industrial and
mercantile enterprises. He was one of the original
directors of the Lachine Rapids Hydraulic and Land
Company, which undertook successfully the develop-
ment of the vast water power of the Lachine Rapids.
He is President of the Canada Accident Company, a
trustee -:'f ihe Guardian AsMirance Company, Vice-
President of the Montreal Trust and Deposit Com-
pany, the National Security Company, of Xew
York, etc.. and resident Vice-President of the
American Surety Company.
Mr. Wilson-Smith was for some years a member of
the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, Mont-
real, and is a governor of the Montreal Diocesan Theo-
logical College, and a trustee of the University of
Bishop's College. He is also a member of the Synod
of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, president of the
Montreal Horticultural Society and Honorary Lieuten-
ant-Colonel of the and Regiment of Canadian Artil-
lery. He is a governor of Verdun Asylum and of the
Montreal General, Notre-Dame and Western Hos-
pitals. He is also a member of the City, St. James
and Canada Clubs.
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THOMAS J. DRUMMOND.
Mr. Thomas J. Drummond, Merchant and Manu-
facturer, Montreal, was born September 26th, 1860,
in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, his parents being
the late George Drunimond and Elizabeth Soden, his
wife. He came with his parents and the other mem-
bers of his family to Canada in 1864, and has made
his home in Montreal ever since. He was educated
in Montreal. In 1881, in conjunction with James T.
McCall. and his brother, Mr. George E. Drummond,
he founded the present well-known firm of Drum-
mond, McCall & Company, and has been closely iden-
tified with the iron and steel industry of Canada ever
since. Mr. Drummond is at the present time Presi-
dent of the Londonderry, (N.S.) Iron and Mining
Company; President of the Montreal Pipe Foundry
Company, Yice-President of the Canadian Iron and
Foundry Company, whose plant is at Hamilton, Ont.,
Yice-President of the Montreal Water and Power
Company, a director of the Iron Furnace Company,
and Imperial Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Drummond has been for many years an active
member of the Montreal Board of Trade, and was for
some time a member of the council of that body.
Mr. Drummond married Oct. loth, 1892, Edith,
daughter of General A. L. Chetlain of the United
States Army, Chicago, 111.
Mr. Drummond is a member of the St. James,
Canada and Montreal Clubs, and the Toronto Club,
Toronto.
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CHARLES FULLER GILDERSLEEVE
Mr. Charles Fuller Gildersleeve, Kingston, Out.,
President af the Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte
Steamboat Co., is of the sixth generation of this
family which has been engaged in the building, owner-
ship and management of shipping. On his mother's
side Mr. Gildersleeve is of Old United Empire Loyal-
ist stock. His father was the late Mr. Henry Gilder-
sleeve, who went to Kingston, Out., in 1816, to assist
in the building of the "Frontenac," the first steamboat
launched on Lake Ontario ; his mother's name being
Sarah Finkle. He was born at Kingston, Out., Oct.
I7th, 1833, and was educated at Upper Canada Col-
lege. Being intended for the legal profession he un-
derwent the usual course, and was called to the l!ar
in 1859. He practised with success for several years,
but in 1864, on his brother's death he relinquished his
practice to assume the management of the steamboat
business established by his father in 1817, and main-
tained by his father and brother ever since that date.
Mr. Gildersleeve has remained in the steamboat busi-
ness since 1864, having built and owned the "Corin-
thian," "Norseman,'' "Maud," "Welshman" and
"North King," and having owned the "Empress,"
"Bay of Quinte," "Hastings" and "Hero," all of
which vessels are well-known on the inland waterways
of Canada. In 1893 MH Gildersleeve organized the
Lake Ontario and Bay of Quinte Steamboat Company,
which took over his steamers, he becoming the first
manager. In 1894 he was appointed general mana-
ger of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company,
Montreal, which owns over twenty-five steamers and
operates the principal passenger and freight lines be-
tween the head of Lake Ontario and the River Sagne-
nay. Under his active management the business of
the company developed greatly — new steamers, the
finest on inland waters were built, and during the
whole of his term the shareholders received regular
dividends, although for eight years previously none
whatever had been paid. In 1904 he resigned from
the R. & () and resumed charge of the L. O. & 15 of
O. Steamboat Co., which he has controlled since its
formation. While a resident of Kingston, and espe-
cially between the years 1864 and 1894, Mr Gilder-
sleeve took an active interest in public affairs. A
Liberal in politics he was foremost in redeeming
the city from its former Conservative proclivities.
He served as alderman for many years and one yeai
as mayor, and largely through his leadership the
finances of the city were placed in a healthy condition,
and new waterworks and other improvements con-
structed. He took the chief part in the promotion of
the Kingston & Pembroke Railway and was President
of the company from its formation in 1870 until in
1901 it became part of the Canadian Pacific Railway
System. He also took an active part in the establish-
ment of the Kingston School of Mining and Agricul-
ture.
Mr. Gildersleeve married Mary Elizabeth, daughtei
of Charles L. Herchmer, of Belleville, Out., and theii
family consists of one daughter, Maud Gertrude, mar-
ried to Lt.-Col. Victor B. Rivers, of the Militia head-
quarters staff, Ottawa, and one son, Henry H. Gilder-
sleeve, general manager of the Northern Navigation
Company.
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ELIAS ROGERS.
The mercantile community of the city of Toronto
contains few more prominent figures than that of Elias
Rogers, the President of The Elias Rogers Company,
Limited, which is undoubtedly one of the largest and
best equipped coal, wood and fuel concerns on the Con-
tinent, and certainly the largest retail business of its
kind in Canada.
Klias Rogers is a native Canadian, having been
born in the township of Whitchurch, York County,
Ontario, where his father, the late Elias Rogers, was a
farmer. The subject of this sketch was educated at
Newmarket and at Union Springs College, New York.
In addition to his knowledge of farming acquired at
home, he gained a thorough knowledge of the lumber
trade before he was twenty-three years of age and was
for a time engaged in that business. Subsequently, be
became interested in coal mining and operated a coal
mining industry in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. In
1876 he opened a wholesale and retail coal business in
Toronto, which to-day has eclipsed all rivals in its es-
pecial line, owing its surprising development, chiefly
to his enterprise, judgment, tireless energy and the de-
votion of a quarter of a century of his time to its inter-
ests. In-addition to his being the President of the com-
pany which bears his name in Toronto, Elias Rogers is
the President of the Rogers Coal Company, of Hamil-
ton ; President of the National Life Assurance Com-
pany, a Director of the Imperial Bank, a Director of
the National Trust Company and several other com-
mercial and financial organizations. He is a life mem-
ber and a past President of the Toronto Board of
Trade. He is a member of the National Club, Toronto,
and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. A Liberal in
politics. In 1887 he was a member of the Toronto
City Council, and has ever striven to further the inter-
ests of the city and of the country at large. He has
been active in the development of industries in the ex-
treme east and also of the extreme west of the Domi-
nion. Outside the attention Mr. Rogers has necessar-
ily had to devote to his business intefests, he actively
participates in the furtherance of many deserving
objects — Religious and Philanthropic.
Elias Rogers was married in Toronto in 1873 t° a
daughter of Benjamin Selby, of Glasgow, Scotland,
the union having been blessed with seven children :
Alfred, Mary L., Sarah P., John W., Hazel, Clarence
E. and Isabella May. He has two grandchildren, Al-
fred, son of his eldest son Alfred, and Mary the
daughter of Mrs. Beaton, formerly Mary L. Rogers.
Mr. Rogers resides at Deer Park, Toronto, Ontario,
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HON. GEORGE WILLIAM ROSS,
The career of the Premier of Ontario, the Hon.
George William Ross, is a shining example of the pos-
sibilities of that success in life, which lies before every
Canadian youth, blessed with natural ability, determi-
nation and perseverance. George William Ross is the
son of James Ross by his wife Ellen McKinnon, both
natives of Ross-shire, Scotland, who came to Canada in
1832. He was born near Nairn, County Middlesex,
Ontario, on September i8th, 1841. Educated in the
public schools, he early displayed marked ability in his
studies, and received a County Board certificate which
empowered him to teach. He then took a course at
the Normal School, Toronto, where, in 1871, he secur-
ed a first class provincial certificate. He, later, matri-
culated in law at Albert University, graduated L.L.I',
in 1883, and was called to the Bar in 1887. Before
this period, in 1871, he was appointed Inspector of
Public Schools for the County of Lambton, and acted
subsequently in a similar capacity for the towns of
Petrolea and Strathroy. He took a leading part in the
County Model Schools System, and after their organ-
ization, he prepared a Syllabus of Lectures for their
direction, and for a time filled the position of Inspec-
tor. From 1876 to 1880 he was a member of the Cen-
tral Committee of Examiners, steadily contending for
the uniformity of text books and favoring the limit-
ing of Normal Schools to professional work.
Mr. Ross may be said to have been one of the most
important factors in bringing the educational laws of
Ontario to their present pitch of perfection. At the
general election of 1872, he was elected as the Liberal
representative in the House of Commons for West
Middlesex, and continued to do so at Ottawa until No-
vember, 1883, when he entered the Mowat Administra-
tion in Ontario as Minister of Education, still remain-
ing member for West Middlesex in the Legislature.
Einally, in October, 1899, he was chosen to serve as
Premier of Ontario, which position he still retains. His
record as a legislator and administrator is highly me-
ritorious. In connection with his efforts to perfect
the educational system of the country, in 1885 he intro-
duced a bill in the Legislature providing for the conso-
lidation of the Public Schools' Act, the High Schools'
Act, the Separate Schools Act and the Act respecting
Mechanics' Institutes. In 1887 he introduced a bill
authorizing the federation of the University of Toron-
to, and the affiliation of the denominational colleges
with that national institution. He was also instru-
mental in placing on the statute book a bill respecting
truancy.
Mr. Ross devoted some years to journalistic and
library work. At one time he was editor of the Strath-
roy " Age," and at another time part proprietor of the
"Huron Expositor." He also conducted the "Onta-
rio Teacher," a publication which proved of great ser-
vice to educationists in all parts of the province. In
1892 he wrote, in conjunction with Mr. Wm. Bucking-
ham, a biography of the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie.
Among his other works may be mentioned " The His-
tory of the School System of Ontario," written for the
International Series of Educational Works, published
by the D. Applcton Company, New York ; " A Report
of the Schools of England and Germany," and " Pa-
triotic Recitations for the L'se of Schools and Col-
leges." In 1893 he was appointed Chairman of the
Committee having for its object the preparation of a
history of Canada, for the use of the schools of this
country ; and in 1897 he served as a Yice-President of
Educational Association. In acknowledgement of his
eminent services on behalf of education, in 1886 he
received the degree of LL.D.. from St. Andrew's
I'niversity, Scotland. A similar honor was confer-
red upon him by Victoria University. Toronto, in
1892, and by the Toronto University in i8<H. bv
McMaster University in 1902 and by Oueen's Uni-
versity in 1903. In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada, and, in the same year,
he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the
revision of the ( )ntario Statutes. He is a member
of the Council of the Toronto Astronomical and
Physiological Society, and is likewise interested in
the National Sanitarium Association, of which he
was one of the founders. In 1886 he served as an
honorary commissioner to the Indian and Colonial
Exhibition held in London.
Mr. I'oss is a master of platform oratory, and as a
public speaker takes high rank. Among the best known
of bis efforts from the lecture platform are the follow-
ing:— " Literary Factors in our Canadian Life," " For-
nntive Forces of Canadian History," " Our National
( )utfit," " Citizenship and High Culture," and " Pre>-
ferential Trade."
In religious belief Premier Ross is a Presbyterian
pud holds the office of elder in St. Andrew's Church.
Toronto. In 1896 he was elected a delegate from the
General Assembly, Canada, to the Pan-Presbyterian
Conference held that year in Glasgow. For many
years he has been prominently identified with the tem-
perance cause. He was elected Most Worthy Patriarch
of the Sons of Temperance of North America in
1879; attended the British and Colonial Temperance
Congress held in London. 1886; was elected Presi-
dent of the Temperance and General Life Assur-
ance Company, 1885, and was elected a Vice-Presi-
dent of the Ontario Prohibitory Alliance, 1896. He
has been twice married, first in 1862 to Christina,
daughter of Duncan Campbell, she dying in 1872,
and, secondly, in 1875 to Catherine, the daughter of
William Boston.
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JOHN MACDONALD.
Prominent as the head of the leading wholesale dry
floods house of the City of Toronto, John Macdonald,
manages the vast business founded by his late father,
Senator Macdonald, in 1849, which is still carried on
under the time honored name of both father and son.
John Macdonald was born at Oaklands, Avenue
Road, Toronto, on the 4th day of November, 1863, and
received a good commercial education at Upper Canada
College. His father, the late Hon. John Macdonald
was born in Perth, Scotland, coming to Canada in
1840, and eventually establishing and building up the
celebrated mercantile house known throughout every
part of the Dominion. After completing his education,
the subject of this sketch entered his father's business
house in 1879, all(l after passing through every grade,
gained an expert and thorough knowledge of the dry
goods trade, and has since devoted the whole of his
time to the development of the enterprise of which
since the lamented death of the Senator, he has been
the head.
Mr. Macdonald has always been a zealous supporter
of the commercial interests of the city of Toronto, he
is a prominent member of the P.oard of Trade, of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Commercial
Travellers Association, the Caledonian Society, and
the York Pioneers of the National Club.
The vast business interest of John Macdonald have
occupied the greater part of his time, leaving him but
little leisure. His principle recreation has been driving,
he being considered an expert horseman, and judge of
horses. He has acted as judge of harness horses at
the annual Toronto Exhibition for many years, and
fills that capacity at numerous other places. Although
he has had but little time to devote to outdoor sports,
he is a firm believer in and encourager of athletics and
all manly games and recreation, for the younger gener-
ation. On August 5th, 1903, he married Miss Claire
Hungerford, a daughter of W. A. Hungerford, of
Belleville, Ontario.
John Macdonald is undoubtedly one of the princi-
pal commercial pillars of his native city, the mantle of
honor and respect, which was won and held by his late
father has fallen upon a worthy successsor in the son
who bears the same well-known name, which has been
a factor for years in the development of the mercantile
communitv of Toronto.
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ALEXANDER RAMSAY.
Mr. Alexander Ramsay, Montreal, manufacturer
and merchant, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, August
I4th, 1840. His father, the late Alexander Ramsay,
came to Canada in 1841, and founded the business now
known under the name of A. Ramsay & Son, the fol-
lowing year. Mr. Ramsay was educated in Montreal
and joined the present business in 1858. Upon the
death of his father in the year 1867 he then became the
sole proprietor of the business. Mr. Ramsay has de-
voted his whole attention and his whole energy to the
development of his business, and has succeeded to such
an extent that it is to-day one of the largest as it is
among the oldest in its line in Canada. The firm
manufactures white lead and mixed paints, oils, var-
nishes and colors of all kinds, also mirrors and glass
embossing, upwards of a hundred hands being employ-
ed steadily in its two Montreal factories. The firm
also imports plate glass, window glass, gold leaf, paint-
ers' supplies, etc., so that it will be observed that the
business is a very comprehensive one. Mr. Ramsay
is, however, pre-eminently a man of system, and he has
used that quality in the organization and regulation of
his business with good effect.
That his sound judgment and thorough practical
knowledge of the special departments of trade with
which the firm of A. Ramsay & Son are directly con-
nected are appreciated by those best capable to judge, is
shown by the responsible positions of trusts he holds in
three important commercial bodies. Mr. Ramsay is
President of the Dominion Plate Glass Insurance Com-
pany, Vice-President of the Consolidated Plate Glass
Company, and President of the White Lead and Color
Association.
Mr. Ramsay has been too much engrossed in busi-
ness to allow himself to be drawn into public life, but
as a mark of public confidence and in recognition of his
high standing in the community he was given the ap-
pointment of Justice of the Peace. Mr. Ramsay has
been for some years a much-respected member of the
Montreal Board of Trade.
Mr. Ramsay was married in 1868 to Miss Lydia
Clarke, daughter of the late James Clarke, of Bloom-
field, Ont., and their family consists of five, three sons
namely : A. F. Ramsay, W. A. Ramsay, W. B. Ram-
say, in business with him, and two daughters, Miss J.
M. Ramsay and Miss Lydia C. Ramsay.
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ALEX. McARTHUR.
The late .Mr. Alexander Me. \rthur like so many of
our most successful men, first saw the light of day on
a farm. He was horn at Cote St. Paul, in the parish
of I.achine, on the 23rd day of August. 1849, tne
soundest son of the late Colin McArthur. His educa-
tion was received under the tuition of the late Mr.
Charles Xicholls, of the Collegiate School, supplement-
ed by a commercial course in the Montreal Kusiness
College. At an early age he learned the hardware
business with Messrs. P>enny, McPherson & Co., but
it was not long until he engaged in business, in the
manufacturing of roofing papers, etc., on his own ac-
count. Success attended his enterprise from the start,
and sixteen years ago he acquired the Jolicttc Paper
Mills. P>y bringing them up to a high state of effi-
ciency, the return upon capital invested was highly
satisfactory. In business, as in private life, his career
was without blemish, and his high standing amongst
his fellow business men bore high testimony to the in-
tegrity and honor of the man. A man of kindly and
charitable disposition, he gave liberally to all deserving
institutions, and his hand was ever ready to meet the
call of poor and needy, who knew him as their
friend. He was identified with many social clubs,
in the membership of which his genial disposition made
him a general favorite.
In the year 1891 he married the daughter of James
Crathern, Esq., of Montreal, who, with two young
daughters, still survives him. Mr. McArthur's death
occurred June i6th, 1903.
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ANDREW A. ALLAN.
Mr. Andrew A. Allan, third son of the late Mr.
Andrew Allan, of lonontch, one of the founders of
the Allan Line of Steamships, was born and brought
up in Montreal. He is a member of the firm of H. &
A. Allan, which consists of Hugh A, Allan, H. Mon-
tagu Allan, Andrew A. Allan and Bryce J. Allan.
The progress of the City of Montreal, not alone as a
seaport, but as a commercial centre, has been closely
bound up with, and during a certain important
period was dependant upon the development of the
Allan Line of steamships. The pioneer vessel of the
Allan Line was a small sailing craft named the Jean,
which was put into service on the route between
Montreal and England in 1815, by Captain Alexander
Allan, who had gained distinction and means in the
transport service during the Peninsula War. The
venture appears to have been successful from the
start, and in a few years Captain Allan had a regular
line of sailing vessels plying between Montreal and
British ports. The establishment of this line had a
stimulating effect upon the general trade of the port,
and in 1833 Montreal was made a port of entry. In
1852, when, owing to the successful dredging opera-
tions carried on by the Commissioners, the river was
becoming capable of floating large vessels, the Allan
Line, which till then had been composed exclusively
of sixteen sailing vessels, was reinforced by the
"Indian" and the "Canadian," iron-built screw steam-
ships of 1,500 tons register, and 250 indicated horse-
power. These steamers, which were among the best
found of their day, were the forerunners of a fleet,
which, fnr equipment, safety and comfort, is not to be
surpassed anywhere. As years went by the company,
which had originally only plied between Montreal and
I iverpool, started first a line to Glasgow, then to Lon-
don, and afterwards by purchase of the Stile Line,
extending their operations to the neighboring Re-
public.
Mr. Andrew A. Allan has been for some years a
number of the Montreal Board of Trade, and is at the
present time a member of the Council of that body.
He is identified with numerous industrial and com-
mercial corporations, among other official positions he
holds, being Vice-president of the Dominion Oilcloth
Company (Limited), and a director of the Canadian
Rubber Company. He is a member of the Mount
Royal Club, the St. James Club, the Montreal Hunt
Club and the Forest and Stream Club.
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BRYCE JAMES ALLAN.
Mr. Bryce James Allan, No. 1 10 State street, Bos-
ton, Mass., ship owner and agent of the Allan Line
Steamship Company at Boston, Mass., was born in
Montreal, August 2Oth, 1862, the third son of the late
Sir Hugh Allan. Mr. Allan was educated at Bishop's
College School, Lennoxville, and in France and Ger-
many, and entered the office of H. & A. Allan, in
Montreal, in 1880. He moved to Boston in 1884 to
enter the office of H. & A. Allan in that city, and after
familiarising himself thoroughly with the business of
that firm, he succeeded to the agency in June, 1892.
Mr. Allan at present holds a leading position in the
social as well as the commercial community of Boston.
His winter home on Beacon street, in Boston, and his
new and beautiful summer estate at Beverly, are well
known as resorts of fashion and cultme.
He is a member of the St. James Club, Montreal ;
the Somerset Club, Boston ; the Knickerbocker Club,
New York : and the Junior Carlton Club, of London,
England.
June 2nd, 1896, Mr. Allan was married to Anna,
daughter of General F. W. Palfrey, of Boston.
TOUSSAINT BROSSEAIL
Among the men who shine with particular bril-
liancy at the Bar of the Province of Quebec, is Mr.
Toussaint Brosseau, head of the legal firm, Brosseau,
Lajoie, Lacoste and Quigley, of Montreal. He has
won a world-wide reputation through personal efforts
and success.
Mr. Brosseau was born at Chambly, Quebec, Sep-
tember 24th, 1857. His education was received dur-
ing his ten years attendance at St. Mary's College,
Montreal. The institution is directed by the Rev.
Jesuit fathers, and has sent out many able young men,
who have occupied eminent positions in the profes-
sions and in politics. At St. Mary's College, Mr.
Brosseau completed his course in Arts and Philoso-
phy, and afterwards followed the law courses at
Laval University, Montreal, where he graduated in
1881. Mf. Brosseau's reputation had preceded him
to the Bar, so that when he was admitted he at once
took a place of importance, as partner in the law firm
of Globensky, Bisaillon and I'.rosseau. He has won
many cases of importance, and almost every year
pleads before the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council in England. Later Mr. Brosseau formed his
present firm, Brosseau, Lajoie Lacoste and Quigley.
His office has been the rendezvous of many cap-
italists seeking to form companies, and it is said that
his practice in this connection is as extensive as the
one he enjoys at the Bar.
It is principally upon civil and commercial cases
that Mr. Brosseau has been engaged. As a civil
lawyer he has been engaged by many large companies
in Canada and in the United States, and upon many
technical legal points has obtained favorable decisions
before the Privy Council.
Though he holds strong political views and is a
fluent speaker, he has never taken any part in politics,
preferring at all times to devote himself to his pro-
fession.
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ROBERT PARKER.
Standing at the head of his especial industry in the
Dominion of Canada, Robert Parker is an instance of
what personal application and organizing ability, com-
bined with integrity and stead}7 perseverance, can ac-
complish from comparatively small beginnings,
and in face of apparently insurmountable obstacles
and difficulties. He is the sole proprietor of the
famous dyeing and cleaning concern known as
"Parkers' Dye Works, Toronto," with some four
hundred agencies and fourteen branch offices dis-
tributed over Canada in every principal city and
town from the Atlantic to the 1'acific; thus forming
the largest business of its kind in the country. The
success of this vast enterprise may be said to be en-
tirely due to the energy and ability of the subject of
this sketch. Robert Parker was born in Manches-
ter, England, on the loth of April, 1859. His parente
died while he was yet in infancy, and he came over
to Canada with his uncle, the late Thomas Parker,
of Thornhill, who was for some time in the dyeing
business in Montreal. After receiving a sound all-
round education at Berthier-en-haut, Quebec, he ap-
plied himself to mastering the trade of a dyer in every
detail. In 1876 he left Montreal lor Yorkville, Out., a
suburb of Toronto, where he established a dyeing
works, and opened a branch office in Toronto. The
history of the progress of this business, to which
Robert Parker has devoted his lifework, is interesting.
The business was then situated in a rough-cast one
storey building at 107 Yonge street Yorkville, now
Toronto, opposit Severns' Brewery, and part of the
old building is still standing.
In 1878 Mr. Wilmpt Castle, son of Dr. Castle, of
McMaster University, Toronto, and Mr. Robert
Parker formed a partnership, which was disolved in
1897, Mr. Castle having secured control of a patent in
the United States, and which compelled him to reside
in Rochester, New York.
The now successful and extensive business was
founded with a modest capital of less than one thou-
sand dollars, Air. Parker taking over Mr. Castles' in-
terest and has been sole proprietor ever since, trading)
under the name of R. Parker & Co. Failure seemed to
stare Mr. Parker in the face, but by working late and
early, with a thorough determination to succeed, the
business gradually but surely forged ahead and increas-
ed with rapid strides. In 1884 a lot was purchased on
Yonge street, opposite Yorkville avenue, and a com-
modious three-story building erected thereon, but after
the first year in the new quarters, it proved too small,!
and another three-story building was erected on the
North side. Since then, other buildings have been
erected from time to time to meet the demands of the
rapid expansion of the concern. In 1893 upwards of
$30,000.00 was paid in wages alone.
In the course of a strenous and arduous business
career Mr. Parker had, whenever opportunity offered,
found his recreation in travel, both in America and
Europe. He is a member of the National Club (of
Toronto), and St. George's Society of Toronto, a Fel-
low of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, Eng.,
and on the Board of Wycliffe College and Havergal
Ladies College, of Toronto.
On the 27th September, 1881, he maried Barbara
Wilhelmina, second daughter of the late Donald Gor-
don, of Embro, Ont, the union having been blessed
with one son, Robert Gordon Parker. Mr. Parker re-
sides at 26 Lowther Avenue, Toronto.
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HON. HENRI B. RAINVILLE.
The Hon. Henri B. Rainville, K.C., Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, was
born at St. Angele de Monnoir April 5th, 1853. His
parents were Felix Rainville, farmer, and Marie
Daignault, his wife. His ancestors came from
Touques, in Normandy, Paul de Rainville, the founder
of the Canadian head of the family, coming from
Normandy about 1630, and settling at Beauport, just
outside of Quebec. Mr. Rainville obtained his ele-
mentary and classical education at the colleges of St.
Hyacinthe and Ste. Angele de Monnoir, afterwards
entering the law faculty of McGill University, and
graduating with the degree of B.C.L. in 1873. Jan-
uary 1 4th, 1874, he was admitted to the Bar and has
been in practice ever since. At present he is head of
the well-known law firm of Rainville, Archambault
Gervais and Rainville.
He was a member of the City Council of Montreal
from 1882 until 1900, sitting for Centre Ward. Dur-
ing the whole period of his municipal career he ex-
erted great influence in the City Council, more especial-
ly during the last four years of his term, when, as
Chairman of the Finance Committee, he acted as lead-
er of the Council. He was first returned to the Que-
bec Provincial Legislature for Montreal, No. 3 (St.
Louis) Division, at the general elections of 1890. He
was defeated at the general elections of 1892, but was
elected by a large majority at the general elections of
1897 and 1900. A staunch Lioeral of the old school,
a man of exceptional shrewdness and ready wit, and
possessing a thorough knowledge of both the English
and French languages, he is a man of great influence
in his district. He was elected Speaker of the Legis-
lative Assembly in 1900.
July :8th, 1876, Mr. Rainville married Eugenie,
daughter of the late Alexandre Archambault, who was
a member of the old parliament of United Canada for
L'Assomption County.
Mr. Rainville is a Director of the Montreal Light,
Heat & Power Company, of the Crown Life Insurance
Company, of the Mount Royal Insurance Company,
and many other financial institutions.
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ROBERT STANLEY BAGG.
Robert Stanley Bagg, Barrister, Solicitor and At-
torney at Law, and I "resident of the Liberal-Conserva-
tive Club was born in 1857, in Montreal, at the
Old Manor House, at the corner of Sherbrooke and
St. Erwin Streets. His father, the late Mr. Stanley
Bagg, who has been dead some thirty years, was a
gentleman of leisure, who inherited two estates, one
in England, in the County of Durham, where he was
a Justice of the Peace, the other, the well-known Bagg
estate in Montreal, which comprises property in al-
most every ward of the City, and many of the adjacent
counties. Robert Stanley Bagg was educated at the
High School, Montreal, and subsequently graduated
from McCiill College, he then proceeded to England,
where he completed his studies. He was called to
the Bar in Montreal in 1873, but although he occupies
commodious offices in the Temple Building, St. James
Street, he has never practiced Law extensively, hav-
ing devoted his life to travel, the administration of the
family estate, he being the eldest son and heir thereto,
and to public life for the benefit of his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Bagg has travelled a great deal abroad, having
visited various countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, In-
dia, and has made extended tours in the British Isles
and North America.
The Bagg family traces its descent from the time of
the old Norse Vikings, his ancestors landing in Eng-
land with Hardicanute. Robert Stanley Bagg is a
fine horseman, and was formerly a commanding officer
in the Royal Scots of Canada, taking a prominent part
in quelling the Quebec riots, and doing other active
military duty, also holding certificates for his excellent
horsemanship in the field. He has also taken an ac-
tive part in every political election for many years
past. In 1896 he was nominated as member of the
St. Lawrence Division of the House of Commons, but
resigned for political and personal reasons.
.Mr. Bagg is a Governor of the Montreal General
Hospital; a Governor of the Montreal Dispensary; a
Governor of the Western Hospital; a member of the
Historical Numismatical and Antiquarian Society of
Montreal, which was founded by his late father; a
member of the St. James Club, and the Hunt Club ; a
member of the St. George's Society, and a life mem-
ber of the Graduates' Society of McGill College. Mr.
Bagg has always been a staunch supporter of out-
door sports. He is one of the founders of St. George's
Snow Shoe Club and House, a good shot and an expert
canoeist.
While in Europe he devoted considerable time to
the study of music and art in Europe, and is an ama-
teur sculptor artist and modeller of considerable merit,
his paintings of Canadian scenery being much admired,
his own country estate at Laurentian Hills, affording
an infinite variety of charming subjects for his brush.
Mr. Robert Stanley Bagg married Miss Clara
Smithers, daughter of the late Charles Smithers,
President of the Bank of Montreal. There are three
children of the marriage, Harold Fortescue Stanley
Bagg, Evelyn St. Claire Stanley Bagg, and Gwendo-
lyn Catherine Stanley Bagg. A public spirited Ca-
nadian and influential citizen, Mr. Bagg is a prominent
figure in the social and political life of the country.
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HERBERT HALE WILLIAMS,
Standing at the head of the real estate brokerage
business in the City of Toronto, Herbert Hale Williams
is a noteworthy instance of what Canadian enterprise
combined with integrity, ability and determination can
accomplish for a young man in this country. Herbert
Hale Williams was born in Toronto on September
2ist, 1862. His father, Henry Hurt Williams coming
to Canada from Glamorganshire, Wales, was estab-
lished in business in Toronto for many years. The
subject of this sketch was educated in the public
schools of Toronto, gaining a scholarship to the old
Grammar School. Completing his education at an
early age, Herbert Hale Williams was employed by
one of the largest firms engaged in the lumber, tim-
ber and buliding trade in his native city. With this
firm he gained an extensive experience and expert
knowledge of these industries, which has proven of
invaluable service to him, in the exercise of his pre-
sent profession as broker and dealer in and manager
of real estate. This experience has also given him
an undeniable advantage over the majority of his
competitors as a proficient and reliable valuator.
Finally Mr. Williams in 1886 launched out in busi-
ness on his own account, establishing himself in Toron-
to, as a Real Estate Broker, undertaking insurance,
loans, the sale and management of estates and every
branch of the real estate business. Starting without a
single client, Mr. Williams speedily demonstrated to
his fellow-citizens and the public, that he was specially
qualified to skilfully handle each and every one of the
lines of business he professed to undertake. His busi-
ness steadily, yet rapidly, expanded, more than doubling
itself every year, until it has reached its present vast
proportions. Up to date, yet conservative in his me-
thods, Herbert Hale Williams has developed his en-
terprise, until it is without doubt the most important
real ^state brokerage concern in the City of Toronto.
He deals very extensively in high class, and indeed
every description of property in that city and vicinity,
the large volume of business transacted taking the en-
ergies of a numerous staff of clerks and assistants. He
has reliable correspondents in Montreal, Winnipeg,
New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Kansas City, and all
the principal cities and towns throughout the Dominion
and the United States. He effects insurances on all
kinds of property, and possesses unequalled facilities
for investing trust and other funds on desirable se-
curity with an ample margin, and in relation to this
branch of Mr. Williams' business a great factor in his
success has been his unerring expert judgment of
real estate values, unbiased and honest opinions, and
his keen desire to protect the interests of each and
every one of his clients, in either separate, joint or mu-
tual transactions.
As an arbitrator in settling all disputes concerning]
real estate transactions, he is in great demand, while
rarely is a valuation of any important piece of city
property completed without Mr. Williams' expert ser-
vices being enlisted. His management of estates has
earned for him an enviable reputation and in every in-
stance, great improvement in the condition of and in-
creased revenue speedily derived from all properties
placed under his care. His commodious and conve-
nient offices are at Nos. 6, 8 and 10 Victoria Stree.t;
Toronto, and fitted with the most modern appoint-
ments and facilities for conducting an up-to-date real
estate business.
Herbert Hale Williams has devoted his whole time,
energies and abilities in the development of his business
and as a gratifying result he has become the most
prominent man in his profession, in his native city of
Toronto.
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EARL OF DUNDONALD.
Major-General Douglas Mackinnon, B. H. Coch-
rane, I2th. Earl of Dundonald, is the representative
of a line ennobled in the year 1647, by Charles I. Sir
William Cochrane, of the family which had been settled
on the Barony of Cochrane in the West of Scotland
for many centuries, was created Earl of Dundonald
and Lord Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree in the
Peerage of Scotland, for his services to the royalist
cause.
This family has been for generations connected
with the Naval and Military services of Great Britain.
The 7th Earl was killed at the siege of Louisburg in
Canada in the year 1758. Archibald, the gt% Earl,
served in the Royal Navy, and was distinguished for
his work in Science, Chemistry, and Invention. Im-
provements in the manufacture of white lead, the mak-
ing of soda from salt, the extraction of tar from pit
coal, and a treatise on the "Connection between Ag-
riculture and Chemistry," are but a few of his many
and varied contributions to the wealth of the nation.
His son, Thomas the loth. Earl, after making a
brilliant reputation in the British Navy in the wat
against France, commanded in succession the fleets of
Chili, Peru, Brazil, and Greece in the struggles of
those countries for their independence. For his
services to Brazil he was created Marquis of Maran-
ham in the Empire of Brazil. He also was distin-
guished as an inventor, being famous for his mys-
terious "secret plans for the destruction of fleets and
fortresses," and for his discovery of the uses of Trini-
dad bitumen. He was the discover of many inven-
tions in collection with marine engineering, and was
also the inventor of tunnelling under water by com-
pressed air.
Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, uncle of the
above, a distinguished admiral, was at one time Com-
mander-in-Chief of the North America Station.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Cochrane, son
of the above, was Commander-in-Chief of the
Squadron in the First Chinese War.
Admiral Sir Arthur Cochrane, a distinguished nav-
al officer, is the uncle of the present Peer. Thomas,
nth. Earl, the father of the present Peer, served on
the Staff in Canada in 1838, and was afterwards
Quartermaster-General to the Forces in China.
The 1 2th. and present Earl was born in Scotland,
October 2gth, 1852. He was educated at Eton, and
in his I7th year, July 1870, entered the Army. In
1878, he married Winifred, daughter of the late R.
B. Hesketh, Esq., of Gwrych Castle, Abergele. In
1884, he went to the Soudan in command of a detach-
ment of the Camel Corps in the expedition for the re-
lief of Khartoum. He rode with despatches, an-
nouncing the occupation of Gakdul Wells. He took
part in the actions of Abu Klea and Gubat, and after
the last fight he acted as guide to two night convoys
from Gubat to the base, and to reinforcements on the
march from Gakdul to the front. He commanded
the transport and baggage of Sir Herbert Stewart's
Desert Column on the march to Metammeh, and vol-
unteered to carry the despatches across the Desert,
from Metammeh, announcing the fall of Khartoum.
For his services in this campaign he was mentioned
in despatches and received the medal with two clasps
and the Khedive's bronze star, with the brevet of
Lieutenant-Colonel for distinguished service in the
field (June, 1885,). In 1889 he reached the rank of
full Colonel in the Army, and in 1895 commanded the
2nd Life Guards.
On the outbreak of the South African war in Oc-
tober, 1899, ne went to Natal as a volunteer, and Sir
Redvers Buller gave him the command of the Mounted
Troops in Natal on November 22nd. In command
of this Brigade, consisting mainly of Colonial Irreg-
ulars, he took a prominent and successful part in all
the fighting of the Natal Army, including the
battle of Cloenso, the seizure of Potgeiter's
Drift, Acton Homes, Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz,
the capture of Cingolo Mountain, Pieter's Hill,
and, in command of his Brigade, led the advance
of the Natal Army into Ladysmith on Feb-
ruary 28th, 1900, after its four months' siege. Sub-
sequently he led his command, in which were combined
the Mounted Brigade of the Natal Army, and the Na-
tal Volunteer Brigade, with consistent success in the
advance of the Army of Natal, taking part in the at-
tack on the Biggarsberg and the pursuit of the Boers
from Natal, and the actions at Laing's Mek, Alman's
Nek, Botha's Pass, and Belfast. His pursuit of the
Boers across the Biggarsberg to Laing's Nek — a forty-
mile ride through fire and smoke — was described by
Sir Redvers Buller as "very fine performance indeed."
He returned to England when the Brigade was finally
broken up. For these services he was mentioned six
times in despatches, received the medal with six clasps,
and was promoted to the rank of Major-General for
distinguished service in the field.
In January, 1885, he succeeded to the Earldom of
Dundonald on the death of his father, and the same
year was elected one of the sixteen representative
peers for Scotland. He is the discoverer of numerous
inventions of considerable value.
On July 2Oth, 1902, he was gazetted to the com-
mand of the Canadian Militia. He is the author of
a scheme for the re-organization of the Canadian
Militia on entirely new lines. He has also written a
new drill and training book suitable both for cavalry
and infantry, which is likely to have very wide ap-
plication. He has also organized the Cadet Corps
system, and has created various other organizations
for the improvement of the militia. He believes
thoroughly in the citizen soldier, provided the
leaders are well trained and the organization and
Departments are perfect.
His residence is Crichton Lodge, Ottawa.
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DAVID MORRICE.
Mr. David Morrice, merchant and manufacturers'
agent, and head of the firm c«f David Morrice & Sons,
Montreal, was born at St. Martin, Perthshire, Scot-
land, August nth, 1829. He was educated at his
native place, and after leaving school engaged in vari-
ous business pursuits in Scotland and Ireland, acquir-
ing a broad, general knowledge of commercial life,
which has proved very useful to him. Mr. Morrice
came to Canada in 1855, first proceeding to Toronto,
and after a short residence in that city moving to
Montreal, where, in 1863, he established the firm of
David Morrice & Company. Mr. Morrice admitted
his sons, Messrs. W. J. Morrice and David Morrice,
junior, into partnership in 1882, the style of the firm
then being changed to its present designation, David
Morrice & Sons. The firm, which has a warehouse in
Toronto as well as in Montreal, controls the output of
some of the largest cotton and woollen mills in Canada,
including the seven mills of the Canadian Colored
Cotton Mills Company, of which Mr. David Morrice is
president, and the woollen mills of the Penman Manu-
facturing Company, Auburn, Ontario.
.Mr. Morrice is officially connected with several
great commercial corporations. He is president of
the Montreal Investment and Freehold Company, a
director of the Crows' .Vest Coal Company (which
owns and operates mines in the Crows' Xest Pass), of
the Cumberland Coal and Railway Company, and of
the Royal Victoria Insurance Company. The name of
Mr. David Morrice will always be intimately associated
with the Montreal Presbyterian College, of the Board
of Management of which institution he is chairman. In
1882 Mr. .Morrice erected and donated to the College
at a cost of $80,000 the beautiful David Alorricc Hall,
and he has made other generous donations to the insti-
tution. He is also connected with the governing bodies
of the Montreal General Hospital, the V. M. C. A., the
Montreal Sailors' Institute, the Protestant House of
Industry and Refuge, and various other institutions.
He was for some time intimately associated with
the management of the Montreal Art Association, and
at present takes an interest in that institution.
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WILLIAM FRANCIS CARSLEY,
President of one of the largest retail dry goods
and departmental stores in Canada, "The S. Carsley
Company, Limited," few men occupy a more promin-
ent position in this particular business than William
Francis Carsley, of Montreal. He is a native of that
City, having- been born there on 2nd of September,
1868. His father, Samuel Carsley, came to Canada
many years ago from Shropshire. England, and found-
ed the celebrated Canadian .Mercantile House, which
bears his name. William Francis Carsley was educat-
ed at Lincoln College. Sorel, Quebec, and on the com-
pletion of his studies, went to England, in order to
gain a thorough knowledge of the methods employed
in that country in the dry goods trade. He was ap-
prenticed for two years in Tanton, Somerset, especial
pains being taken to give him the most expert exper-
ience possible. After which he spent eight months in
Lyons, France, studying the silk industry. Before
returning to Montreal to join his father's well-known
house, W. F. Carsley travelled extensively over
Europe, making himself familiar with all the great
commercial centres of that continent. When the S.
Carsley 's stores were formed into the present limited
company in 1896 he was elected Vice-President, sub-
sequently he became President, the position he now so
ably occupies.
Wm. Francis Carsley is a great believer in the ma-
terial future success of Canada, and especially of Mon-
treal, his native city. He is interested in city real
estate, and is a staunch supporter of various local com -
mercial enterprises. He is a member of the Montreal
Board of Trade and the Royal St. Lawrence Yacht
Club, a Governor of the Montreal General Hospital
and a member of the Church of England.
A leading merchant interesting himself as he does
in various charities and always ready to lend his aid
to any project for the benefit of Canada's Metropolis,
he is already recognized as one of Canada's younger
men.
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ROBERT CRAIK, MJX, LL.D.
Robert Craik, M.I)., LL.I)., formerly Dean of the
Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, Montreal,
and now a 7iiember of its Board of Governors and of the
Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, was
born in Montreal, April 22nd, 1829. He comes from
an old Scottish Border family, which has long been
scattered, — the Craiks of Craik in Roxburghshire, — his
parents coming to Canada from Edinburgh in 1818.
Dr. Craik received his early education at " Brace's
School " in Montreal, matriculating at McGill University
in 1850, and graduating with the degree of M.D. and
"First in Honours" in 1854. On graduation he took up
the appointment of House Surgeon of the Montreal
General Hospital, and at once found himself in a position
of exceptional responsibility. It was the year of a
serious outbreak of Asiatic cholera, and the General
Hospital had its full share of the patients ; but thanks
to careful administration, the deadly disease was pre-
vented from spreading to any of the other patients. In
1856 he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in
McGill University, with entire charge of the practical
anatomical work, holding that appointment until I860.
In 1859 he was also made Curator of the Pathological
Museum. In 1860 he resigned the position of House
Surgeon of the Montreal General Hospital to take up
private practice, being, however, made a member of the
Governing Board of the hospital, in recognition of his
services and his professional skill. The same year he was
appointed Professor of Clinical Surgery at McGill,
holding that chair until 1867. During this period of
his professional career, Dr. Craik made a specialty of
resection of joints and ovariotomy, and with notable
success. Such operations were then rare in Canada,
and Dr. Craik's successes commanded universal attention.
In 1866 Dr. Craik took temporary charge of the work
of the Chair of Chemistry; and in 1867, on his own pre-
ference, was appointed to that chair permanently, resign-
ing that of Clinical Surgery. He remained Professor of
Chemistry until 1879, when he resigned the chair, becom-
ing Emeritus Professor.
Meantime he held other positions of responsibility and
trust in the Faculty of Medicine. He was Registrar from
1869 to 1877, and Treasurer from 1875 to 1889.
In 1889 he became Dean of the Faculty on the death
of Dr. R. P. Howard, also taking the chair of Hygiene
and Public Health. In the same year, Dr. Craik was
appointed a member of the Provincial Board of Health.
Dr. Craik held the appointment of Dean of the Faculty
until 1901, and during his administration the progress of
the Faculty was phenomenal. Vast additions were made
to the buildings and equipment, and the number of pro-
fessors and teachers was doubled. The number of
students also was more than doubled. In 1888-89 the
number was 227; in 1900-01 the number had risen to
490, of whom 407 were undergraduates.
During the same period the Montreal General Hospital,
so intimately associated with the work of the Faculty,
was extended, remodelled and practically rebuilt, and the
Royal Victoria Hospital, also closely allied with the
Faculty, was built, equipped and established as a great
working hospital. In all of these operations Dr. Craik
took a prominent and active part. In 1895 he received
the Honorary Degree of LL.I). from his Alma Mater in
recognition of " eminent services to public health, to the
University, and to medical education."
It is interesting to note that in his graduation Thesis,
written and published in the M»nfrr<il Medical Chrunu-le
in 1854, Dr. Craik advanced the theory that the class of
Infectious Diseases had an origin in a specific cell or germ
for each disease, and confidently predicted that before
long these specific germs would be discovered. He even
went the length of indicating the direction in which the
search would be probably successful. This is claimed to
be the first occasion upon which an author advanced the
now universally accepted " germ theory," the develop-
ment of which lias had such a marked effect upon medical
science.
Dr. Craik has found time in his busy professional life
to devote attention to agriculture and the turf. He is an
enthusiastic farmer and breeder of fine stock. At his
country place, " Craikstone," situated on the northern
outskirts of Montreal, Dr. Craik has developed one of the
finest herds of Polled Angus cattle in America, a herd
which won many prizes at the World's Fair at Chicago in
1893 ; and he is now engaged in perfecting an equally fine
herd of Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle. Many thorough-
bred horses from his stables have won fame for them-
selves and their owners on the turf, and he has several
Queen's Plates and Hunt Cups to his credit.
In 1856 Dr. Craik married Alice, eldest daughter of the
late Alexander Symmers, of Dublin, Ireland, Solicitor in
Chancery. Mrs. Craik died in 1874 without issue.
Dr. Craik is a member of the Mount Royal, St. James,
Bel-Air, and Hunt Clubs.
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SIR JOSEPH HICKSON.
The late Sir Joseph Hickson was born at Otter-
burn, Northumberland, England, in the year 1830.
After obtaining a sound business education in various
schools in Northumberland, Sir Joseph Hickson, at a
comparatively early age began his business career with
a large carrying firm, in the days preceding the com-
pletion of the railway sysrem between England and
Scotland. Having acquired considerable insight into
the complexities of the carrying trade of those days, he
entered the service of the North Eastern Railway of
England, where he gained his first knowledge of rail-
way operations, a knowledge that was destined to pro-
duce a most phenomenal career and to be turned to the
advantage and the benefit of Canada. After a few
years with this company. Sir Joseph filled an impor-
tant position on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway
until 1851, when he went to Manchester to fill the posi-
tion of assistant traffic manager of the Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, in the service of
which corporation his promotion was very rapid.
Ten years afterwards, when he became assistant to the
general manager of the line, he attracted the attention
of Sir Edward Watkin, who at that time was presi-
dent of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, and one
of the leading railway magnates of the day. Sir
Edward offered him the position of accountant to
the Grand Trunk Railway, which he accepted. He
arrived in Canada on the 3ist December, 1861. and
took up his residence in Montreal where he continued
to reside up to the time of his death in 1897. His
railway career in Canada was one of the most remark-
able on record, being characterized by rapid promo-
tion and unusual success. Not long after he joined
the service of the company he was made secretary-
treasurer, and on the retirement of Mr. C. J. Brydges,
managing director, in 1874, was promoted to the posi-
tion of general manager of the line, which position he
filled with marked distinction until 1891, when he retir-
ed in order to enjoy a well-earned rest. During the last
seventeen years of his connection with the company, in
addition to having the management of the G. T. R.
proper in his hands, he had charge of all its affiliated
lines, and was either president, vice-president or direc-
tor of nearly twenty companies, having control of the
interests of most of them. During the period of Sir
Joseph Hickson's management the Grand Trunk made
rapid strides forward, forming connections that secur-
ed to Canada many substantial trading benefits, the
most marked of these being the establishment of a
direct line between Montreal and Chicago by the acqui-
sition of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway.
While under Sir Joseph Hickson's charge the mileage
of the G. T. R. increased from 1,383 to 3,487 miles, a
development which testifies in a convincing manner to
the enterprise and foresight of the general manager.
For the ability Sir Joseph Hickson displayed in the
management of Canada's oldest great railway, and for
the valuable national services thus rendered, he was
knighted by Queen Victoria in 1890, the announce-
ment of the conferring of this honor being received in
the Dominion, hailed with general satisfaction.
Sir Joseph Hickson always showed himself a public
spirited citizen of Montreal and took a lively and gen-
erous interest in the city's chief benevolent and artistic
institutions. He was also interested in various bank-
ing, manufacturing and industrial enterprises.
An acknowledgement of his public spirit and sound
judgment was his appointment to the position of pre-
sident of the Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic
in 1895.
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HON. JEAN DAMIEN ROLLAND.
Honorable Jean Damien Holland, Manufacturer
and Member of the Legislative Council of the Pro-
vince of Quebec, was born in the city of Montreal, in
1841, his father being- the late Hon. J. B. Rolland,
member of the Dominion Senate, and wholesale station-
er and manufacturer. After the completion of his edu-
cation at the Christian Brothers' School and St. Mary's
College, Montreal, he entered upon his business career
in the firm founded by his father in 1842. At the
age of eighteen, in 1859, he was admitted to partner-
ship by his father, the firm assuming the name of J.
B. Rolland and Fils. Upon his father's death, in
1888, he became head of the firm, and was elected
President, in succession to his late father, of the Rol-
land Paper Company, St. Jerome. The Hon. Mr.
Rolland is also President of the Franco-Belgian "S.S.
Company, Vice-President of the Montreal and West-
ern Railway, a Director of the Hochelaga Bank, and
a Director of the Canadian Manufacturers' Life As-
surance Company. He is a member of both the Mon-
treal Board of Trade and the Chambre de Commerce,
and was for several years a member of the council of
the first named body. He is also a former President
of the Dominion Commercial Travellers' Association.
Mr. Rolland is a man of keen public spirit, and at
first found expression in active participation in muni-
cipal affairs in the former suburban town of Hoche-
laga, now a ward of the City of Montreal. He was,
for years, a member of the town council, and from
1876 to 1879, mayor. On the annexation of Hoche-
laga to the City he became an alderman in the City
Council, and occupied his seat for several years, having
the honor to obtain that dignity of Chairman of the
Finance Committee and leader of the Council. He is
Vice-President, and was one of the founders of the
Citizens League, and was also for some years a mem-
ber of the Montreal Harbor Commissioners. Mr.
Rolland was called to the Legislative Council Novem-
ber 1 6th, 1896.
In 1864 he was married to Mile. Albina Parent, of
Montreal.
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GEORGE WALTER SADLER.
George Walter Sadler, Montreal, manufacturer of
leather belting, alderman of the City of Montreal and
member of the Civic Finance Committee (1904), was
born in the city named, March 7th, 1852, his parents
being John T. Sadler and Ann Peckett, his wife, both
natives of England. Mr. Sadler is a self-made man,
and rather proud of it. After receiving a sound
elementary education at the McGill Model School, he
began his business career at fourteen years of age, as
an office and errand boy. In 1869, he went to Bos-
ton and learned the business in which he has been
ever since engaged, the manufacture of leather belt-
ing. He returned to Montreal in 1874, and was
superintendent of a factory for two years. In 1876
he started in business with his former partner, the
late Thomas Robin, under the name of Robin &
Sadler. Mr. Sadler is at the present time senior
partner of the business, which is carried on under the
name of Sadler and Haworth, tanners and manu-
facturers of leather belting, with factory and head
office in Montreal, and western branch at Toronto,
their tanneries being situated at Stanbridge East,
P.Q. Apart from this business, Mr. Sadler is in-
terested in several other Canadian industries, and is a
director of the International Mercantile Agency and
of the People's Mutual Building Society.
Notwithstanding, however, the duties imposed upon
him by the concerns above mentioned, Mr. Sadler
has been able to give some of his time for the benefit
of his native city, and has been an alderman of the
City of Montreal since 1896, and for most of his term
has had the honor of sitting on the Finance Commit-
tee, of which important body he is the senior member.
Alderman Sadler is a member of the Montreal
Board of Trade and of the Executive Council of the
Canadian Manufacturers' Association. He is also a
governor of the Montreal General Hospital, the
Western Hospital and the Protestant Hospital for the
Insane. He has always taken considerable interest in
manly sports, and is a life member of the Montreal
Amateur Athletic Association. He is also a member
and a past president of the Montreal Caledonia Curling
Club. He is also a member of the St. James Club
and of St. Lawrence Lodge, A. F. & A. M., English
register.
Alderman Sadler was married at Kingston, Ont.,
in 1872, to Elizabeth McNeice.
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J. P. DAWES.
James P. Dawes, brewer, was born at Lacliine,
Que., July ijt'n, 1843, ms father being James Dawes,
brewer and farmer, who was of English parentage,
his mother's maiden name being Mary Leishman.
Mr. Dawes was educated in Montreal, and on the com-
pletion of his education entered into active participa-
tion in his father's extensive brewing and farming
operations at Lachine. Mr. Dawes has been associat-
ed with that business in connection with his father,
and his brothers ever since. Mr. Dawes is intimately
associated with several of the leading financial and
commercial corporpuons of Canada.
He is a Director of the Merchants P>ank of Canada,
Vice-President of the Dominion Bridge Company,
Vice-President of the Windsor Hotel Company, Presi-
dent of the Dorval Turnpike Trust, Director of the
Alliance Insurance Company, etc. Mr. Dawes is also
a member of the Mount Royal Club, Montreal ; the
St. fames Club, Montreal ; the Forest and Stream
Club", Dorval ; the Royal Montreal Golf Club, the
Royal St. Lawrence Club, and the Montreal Hunt
Club. He is a life member of the Manhattan Club,
X<'\v York. Mr. Dawes' name is widely known, as
a generous and systematic patron of the turf, and his
racing colors have been borne to victory in some of
the most famous steeplechase and running contests in
the United States and Canada.
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JEAN BAPTISTE MARTIN.
Air. Jean Baptiste Martin, of the well-known
wholesale grocery firm of Laporte, Martin & Com-
pany, 76 St. Peter street, Montreal, was born in
Montreal, December (jth, 1850. He is a descendant of
a very old French Canadian family, founded in 1688
by a settler from France, famed in the little colony
no less for his soldierly qualities than for his success
in agriculture. Mr. J. 1!. Martin's parents were Jean
Baptiste Martin, a shoemaker, and Adeline Reabean,
his wife. After receiving an elementary education at
the Christian Brothers' schools in Montreal, Mr.
Martin entered the employ of Mr. G. G. Gaudet,
general store keeper, as a clerk, retaining that posi-
tion for three years. He subsequently entered the
employ of Mr. Edward Turgeon, and later that of
Messrs. Quintal Fils, wholesale grocers, remaining in
that position for thirteen years, and leaving it to form a
partnership with Mr. Hormisdas Laporte in 1888.
His subsequent business career is that of this well-
known house. Although Mr. Martin's best efforts
have been concentrated upon his business pursuits,
being of a patriotic disposition he devoted consider-
able time to the active militia service, and holds both
first and second-class qualifying certificates. He is
by natural conviction an ardent Liberal, but he has
never aspired to public office of any kind, finding the
claims of his business too exacting to permit of hi*
engaging actively in politics. His chief hobby and
recreation is reading, and for the gratification of his
literary tastes he has accumulated at his house a fine
library of 4,000 well selected books, English as well
as French. For the benefit of his health he has
devoted a moderate attention to athletic exercise, being
a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Associa-
tion, and being a skillful bowler. Mr. Martin has also
done his share towards the support of various bene-
volent and charitable organizations. He is a membei
of the Independent Order of Foresters, the St.
Joseph's Society, the Artisans Society, the Alliance
Nationale, the Union St. Pierre and the St. Vincent
cle Paul Society. Of the last named truly noble chari-
table society, Mr. Martin has been secretary for
eighteen years.
Mr. Martin has been married twice ; first February
20, 1871, to Julie, daughter of Cyrile Gagnon, of
Montreal, who died February 25, 1878, and secondly
to Elmina Darveau, daughter of Joseph Darveau,
printer, of Quebec. Of the first marriage there was
one son, Albert Martin, and of the second, two sons
and two daughters — George Martin, medical student ;
Alexandre Martin, student in engineering ; and the
Misses Calista and Fabiola Martin. Mr. Martin's
family residence is 331 Richmond street, Montreal.
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FREDERICK JOHN WEBER.
Mr. Frederick John Weber, president of the Steel
Storage and Elevator Construction Company of Buf-
falo, N.Y., was born at Niagara Falls, Ont., November
i6th, 1859. His father and mother came from Leip-
sig, Germany, in the early forties, and first located in
Buffalo, N.Y., subsequently moving to Niagara Falls,
Ont., his father being in business for many years as a
merchant and manufacturer at Clifton, Ont.
Mr. F. J. Weber after completing the course in the
public schools on the Canadian side, entered the Aca-
demy at Niagara Falls, N.Y., and soon after his gra-
duation therefrom, turned his attention to the business
of a tin and coppersmith, thoroughly mastering that
trade. This accomplished, he moved to Carey, Ohio,
devoting the next five years of his life to the hardware,
steam-fitting and plumbing business. Natural gas
was discovered in Ohio about this time, and with many
others, Mr. Weber caught the fever and took up several
leases. Organizing a company known as the Carey
Natural Gas Company, in which he succeeded in in-
teresting a number of Detroit capitalists. He thor-
oughly exploited the " East Finlay Field," forty-two
oil and gas wells oeing drilled in six years, all proving
successful, and supplying gas to Carey, Upper San-
dusky and Vanlue, Ohio. In 1890, Mr. Weber moved
to Toledo, Ohio, to engage in the manufacture of
stamped and sheet steel work, supplying large dealers
in hardware all over the United States with these
goods. In 1893, a great fire, which destroyed several
extensive grain elevators and many large blocks of
busuiess houses, occurred in Toledo, and impressed
Mr. Weber with the importance of providing a per-
fectly fire-proof style of structure for grain storage and
elevators. He immediately took steps to solve the
problem, and after experimenting for five years at
heavy expense, he succeeded, obtaining eleven letters
patent for the United States and Canada, covering not
merely '.he most essential parts of the construction, but
also the pneumatic handling of grain through steel
tubes. The first fireproof grain elevator in the United
States' 311 this system was constructed at Toledo in
1894. The success of Air. Weber's invention resulted
in the organization of the Steel Storage and Elevator
Construction Company, to exploit it, Mr. Weber being
the president and general manager of this corporation.
The company has constructed no less than one hundred
elevators on this system in various sections of Canada
and the United States, extending from the Atlantic to
the 1'acific. One of the largest of these is the Great
Eastern Elevator at Buffalo, which has a storage capa-
city of 2,500,000 bushels. Also just completed a mil-
lion bushel capacity elevator for the Harbour Com-
missioners at Montreal. The construction is such
that there can be no corrosion from dampness, and the
structure is absolutely germ and vermin proof. The
total receiving capacity of this elevator from cars and
boats in one season is 50,000,000 bushels.
Mr. Weber is president of the Fort Erie Ferry
Railway Company, president of the International Ferry
Company operating a line of ferry boats between Buf-
falo, N. Y., and Fort Erie, Ontario, and member of
the Merchants' Exchange of Buffalo. He is also a
member of the Board of Directors of the Manufac-
turers' Club of Buffalo, N.Y., and a member of the
Ellicott and Liberal Clubs, and of Lake Erie Com-
mandery of Knights Templar of the same city.
Mr. Weber was married, May I7th, 1883, to Miss
Mollie E. Will, of Carey, Ohio, and has one daughter,
Miss Grace Weber.
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SAMUEL JOHN MOORE,
Samuel John Moore occupies a strong position in
the commercial and manufacturing community of the
City of Toronto. ' He was born on 3rd August, 1859,
in Doddington, Northamptonshire, England, his father
Isaac Moore, being a merchant of the English metro^
polis, who brought his family to Canada in 1871, and
settled in Barrie, Out. Samuel John Moore was edu-
cated in London, Eng., and Barrie, Ont., and on the
completion of his studies, entered the office of the
Barrie Gazette, and quickly rose through the various
grades to be local editor, gaining six years valuable ex-
perience during his connection with that journal. He
then spent a year in Texas in the newspaper busi-
ness. His inclination to return to Canada, brought
him from that southern State, back to Toronto,
where he settled down, preferring to be identified
with the success or failure of the Dominion to
that of any other country. He entered into partner-
ship with a publishing house, and in 1884 he estab-
lished the book manufacturing firm of Carter &
Company, which has expanded and developed into
the well-known Carter-Grume Company, of Toronto,
of which Mr. Moore is now the vice-president and
general manager. He is interested in a number of
commercial and financial enterprises, being Presi-
dent of the William A. Rogers, Limited ; President
of the City Dairy Company, Limited ; Vice-
President of the Metropolitan Bank, a director of the
Imperial Life Assurance Company, one of the three
Trustees of the Massey Music Hall Trust, and active-
ly participates in the conduct of several other com-
panies.
Samuel John Moore is a member of the Board of
Governors and Senate of McMaster University and a
member of the Toronto Club. He is closely associated
with the religious interests of Toronto, and is a mem-
ber of the Baptist denomination, and has for the past
fifteen years been President of the West End branch
of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1878,
Mr. Moore married a daughter of Alexander Lang,
Justice of the Peace of Barrie, Ont. His residence is
Beech Rest, Toronto.
84
DAVID MORRICE, JR.
Mr. David Morrice, Jr., member of the firm of
David Morrice & Sons, Montreal Merchants and Man-
ufacturers' Agents, is the second son of the head of
that firm. He was born at Montreal in 1863 and edu-
cated at the High School of Montreal, and the Col-
legiate Institute, Gait, Ont. After leaving the last-
mentioned institution, Mr. Morrice and his elder bro-
ther, Mr. W. J. Morrice, proceeded to Manchester,
England, where, preliminary to entering their father's
firm, established in Montreal in 1863, they spent two
years profitably in the great dry goods house of Ry-
lands & Sons, Limited. Mr. David Morrice, Jr., be-
ing intended to take charge of the warehouse depart-
ment of the Montreal firm, went through all the differ-
ent departments of the Manchester house, his brother
entering the office. In 1882, the brothers returned to
Montreal and were admitted into partnership with their
father, the firm name being changed to its present
designation, David Morrice, Sons & Co.
Mr. David Morrice, Jr., has business connections
outside of the firm. He is a director in the Canadian
Coloured Cotton Co., Limited, and Penman Manufac-
turing Company, Paris. Ont. He is married to a
daughter of the late Mr. R. L. Gault, Montreal.
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ALFRED BICKERTON EVANS.
Alfred Bickerton Evans, the managing director of
the well-known firm of Evans & Sons, Limited, whole-
sale drug merchants and manufacturing chemists, of
Montreal, was born near Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng-
land, on gth May, 1864. His father, Edward Evans,
developed the famous firm of Evans, Sons & Company,
in Liverpool now Evans, Sons, Lescher & Webb,
Limited, the present firm of Evans & Sons, Limit-
ed, of Montreal, Toronto and New York City, and is
now, at the age of eighty-seven, the 'Father of the
Drug Trade of England.' Alfred Bickerton Evans,
after attending a preparatory school at Harrow, com-
pleted his education at Shrewsbury, one of the oldest,
best and largest public schools in England. After
leaving school he at once entered the office of his fath-
er's firm in Liverpool where he thoroughly mastered
the business of the drug trade and became also a recog-
nized authority on pharmaceutical matters. Eighteen
years ago he came to Montreal to manage the Canadian
branch of the parent firm, with offices and warehouses
in Montreal, Toronto and one in the United States at
Boston, Massachusetts, which has since been removed
to New York City. Mr. Evans has ever since made his
headquarters in Montreal, where, on arrival, he stepped
into commercial prominence and has continued to be
and still remains one of the leading merchants of the
city. He is a member of the Mount Royal Club, the
St. James' Club, the Forest and Stream Club, the Hunt
Club, and St. George's Society. In 1894, he was mar-
ried to a daughter of the late John Cassils, of Mont-
real. He has two children.
The firm of which Alfred Bickerton Evans is the
Canadian head, is one of the largest concerns in the
world engaged in the manufacture and wholesale deal-
ing in drugs and chemicals. It was originally founded
by the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, the
late John Evans, nearly a century ago, who started the
business in London which has always borne his name
at the head, during its lengthy existence. As has been
stated, Edward Evans, after learning the business un-
der his father's auspices in London, assumed control 01
the Liverpool house, and eventually the Canadian Com-
pany of Evans & Sons, Limited, was formed. The
business is run as a distinct concern, but still in con-
junction with the old London and Liverpool parent
firms which have now amalgamated and are now
known as Evans Sons, Lescher and Webb, Limited,
Liverpool and London. Of this newly-formed com-
pany Alfred Bickerton Evans is a Senior Director, and
his brother John J. Evans is Chairman of the Board of
Directors, while his other two brothers, Edward Evans,
Jr., and W. P. Evans, are also upon the directorate.
The warehouses, offices, laboratory and mills of
Evans & Sons, Limited, in Montreal, were originally
situated on St. Jean Baptiste Street, but the increasing
business of the company has rendered a large addition
in office and warehouse space necessary, and recently,
having purchased the adjoining property, they have
erected a solid building of Montreal limestone front-
ing on St. Gabriel Street, which now comprises the
most convenient and commodious premises occupied by
any house in the drug trade in Canada.
A brief description of these premises which have
been planed and designed under the personal super-
vision of Mr. A. B. Evans, will not be out of place here.
The main offices, including the book-keeping depart-
ment, counting house and Mr.Evans' private office oc-
cupy the whole of the grounding floor, and, fitted in
chestnut and oak, form elegant offices of the most
commodious character.
Evans and Sons, Limited, were the pioneer house
in the drug trade of Canada to handle photographic
supplies, and a great portion of the second floor of the
new building is devoted to the photographic depart-
ment, which has developed into quite an extensive
business.
The cellar of the new building is principally occu-
pied as a bond room, filled with all kinds of chemicals,
drugs, perfumery and other merchandise dealt in by
the firm and it may be stated that the entire establish-
ment is fitted throughout with a system of automatic
sprinklers, so that every foot of ground space is pro-
tected in case of fire, rendering the chances of the lat-
ter making any headway very small, as in addition to
the sprinklers a tank holding one hundred thousand
gallons of water is built on the roof, so that the build-
ing could be deluged in a few minutes.
The laboratory and mills still remain on St. Jean-
Baptist street, the pan room, granulating room and all
the other departments including the receiving, ship-
ping, city, wets, dries and patents, are all very commo-
dious, with every convenience for carrying on an ex-
tensive and constantly increasing business. A very
complete system of private telephones is installed
throughout the building. Mr. Evans in his private
room being in direct telephone communication with
each department, and by means of the long distance
telephone system, he is enabled to have direct commu-
nication with his Toronto manager, and also with his
house in New York City. The firm has now been so
completely organized under the direction of Mr. A. B.
Evans and his large starl of competent assistants, many
of whom have been in his employ for many years past,
that the entire Dominion is now covered by its repre-
sentatives from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Mr. A. B. Evans makes a yearly periodical trip to
England, where his father and relations reside, and
where he has extensive business interests. The con-
nection of the Montreal Company with the English
houses is a great advantage to Mr. Evans in the man-
agement of the Canadian business, enabling him as it
does to keep in close touch with the English and Euro-
pean drug markets, placing him in a position to pur-
chase his merchandise at the lowest and most advan-
tageous rates compatible with the excellence of their
quality.
Mr. Alfred Bickerton Evans' position at the head of
this important industrial enterprise places him m the
front rank of the mercantile community of the country.
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THE LATE WILLIAM ALLAN MURRAY.
William Allan Murray was born at kavelston,
near Edinburgh, Scotland, August 5th, 1814. He re-
ceived his education at Perth, but owing to the death!
of both parents while he was still a youth, he was!
obliged to give up his studies, that he could better care)
for his six younger brothers. Later in life, each of the
seven brothers held a responsible and prominent posi-
tion as head of a commercial or banking institution,
though scattered through Canada. United States andl
Australia. An elder brother followed to Canada bin
lived a retired life.
As a young man, W. A. Murray entered the ser-
vice of Messrs. Todd & Co., of Dublin, Ireland, and;
later his fortunes took him to the well-known old firm'
of Messrs. Todd, Rivington & Co., of Limerick, Ire-«
land. It was when with this firm, he established his
reputation as one of the best judges of silks then
visiting the Continental markets.
On the 8th of December, 1844, he married Jane?
Anne, daughter of William Macnamara, Squire and
Master of hounds of the County Clare, and had seven,
children; Mary Jane, deceased 1881, who married
John Lyons King, and later Hugh John Macdonald ;
William Thomas, deceased 1903, who married
Marion Parkyn ; Charles Stuart, who married Har-
rietta Norton ; James Peter, who married Marie
Emelie Caron, deceased 1881, and later Nanno Jose-
phine Hayes; John Alexander, who married Mary
Perry ; Elizabeth Honora, who married George
Frederick Forlong; Margaret Helena, deceased
1890, who entered the Ursuline Convent.
Coming to Canada in 1854, Mr. Murray settled in
Toronto, where he founded the dry goods firm which,
bears his name, now so extensively known, and
which is not surpassed elsewhere and has no equals
in Canada.
The many athletic sports of to-day were unknown,
when he was a young man, but in football and shinty;
(now known as hockey) he was one of the best players
and was a staunch supporter of amateur work. Al-
ways fond of a good horse, he took many first prizes
at Toronto Exhibitions and other horse shows. For
many years a regular rider every morning when not
away visiting the European markets.
As an ocean traveller, he had few equals outside a
sailors life, having made one hundred and forty-seven
trips across the Atlantic. Being of a practical turn, he
early saw the value to ocean steamers of flush decks,
and his long experience as an ocean traveller had
considerable influence in bringing about the general
adoption of this principle.
In religion he had been reared a Presbyterian, but
the antipathy to the Catholic Church by one of the
political parties in Canada in the early sixties, induced
him to search into Catholic doctrine, which resulted in
his joining that Church in 1870.
Though not a politician, a strong Conservative, a
close personal friend of Sir John A. Macdonald, a firm
believer in the great future of Canada, and a strong
supporter of an United Empire.
His wife died September iQth, 1889, and he on
September 7th, 1891.
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JAMES PETER MURRAY.
James Peter Murray was born in Limerick, Ireland,
October ijth, 1852, his father, W. A. Murray, bring-
ing his family to Canada in 1854. The subject of this
sketch spent his studying years at St. Michael's Col-
lege, Toronto, Ont., and St. Hyacinthe College, St.
Hyacinthe, Que. He entered his father's warehouse
before his I4th birthday and remained with the busi-
ness until 1893.
In 1891 he founded and was the first President of
the Toronto Carpet Manufacturing Company, Limited,
for the manufacture of all-wool and union carpets. In
1892 the manufacture of axminsters was commenced,
and in 1896, Smyrna rugs. In 1901 carding and spin-
ning were added. In 1903, ninety thousand square
feet of floor space was built and in 1904 Brussels and
Wilton carpets added to their line of manufactures.
Within two years of the commencement of manu-
facturing, the business had grown so extensively, Mr.
Murray found it necessary to give it his whole atten-
tion, and so, in 1893, he withdrew from his father's
business. Believing in the great possibilities of the fu-
ture in Canada and desiring to be better seized of the
requirements of the country, from 1895 to 1899, Mr.
Murray visited from time to time all the provinces of
Canada. In the spring of 1899 the present model
carpet factory was completed, and in the fall of 1903
extensive building operations commenced to accommo-
date plants for worsted drawing and Wilton and
Brussels carpet making. The company's manufac-
tures are sold in Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa, the West Indies and also in Great Britain.
During the year 1899 Mi- Murray gave a greaf deal
of consideration to the importance of the manufactu-
rers of Canada preparing for the development of trade
which was making itself felt. The result being a new
constitution and code of by-laws submitted to the Ca-
nadian Manufacturers' Association and adopted at the
annual meeting in 1900.
Under the new regulations the Association grew
rapidly in membership and influence, from a small or-
ganization of less than a hundred and fifty members
to ten times as many, from being an Ontarian body to
covering every province of Canada, having branches
in many leading cities, to having sections of all the
leading industries, and having correspondent associates
in many of the leading cities of trade throughout the
world.
Before leaving this Association, it might be here
stated that it is non-political, non-partizan. It watches
over its members' interests through its various com-
mittees of legislation, transportation, commercial-intel-
ligence, tariff, finance and reception. Mr. Murray
was Vice-President of the Association in 1894 and has
been Chairman of many of its standing committees,
and Chairman of the Toronto branch for the years
1903-4.
The Toronto Employers' Association owes its for-
mation to Mr. Murray in the fall of 1902. The trouble
caused Toronto employers by the worst influences of
unionized labor necessitated they should organize. The
Association is non-political, and has for its object the
purpose of retaining, by diplomatic and mild measures,
industrial peace, and a continued confidence between
employer and employee.
The Association has been instrumental in prevent-
ing many strikes, and bringing others to a close in a
short time with satisfaction to all interested. At the
time of writing the membership has grown extensive-
ly and has been the pioneer of many other cities in
forming associations in Canada.
As a business man Air. Murray has assisted in the
incorporation of several companies, on whose boards
his name appears.
When and where possible, Mr. Murray has given
some time in the interest of art. In the reorganiza/-
tion of the Central Ontario School of Art and Indus-
trial Design, he took an active part, assisting on the
directorate for many years, and continuing his connec-
tion as one of its advisary board. He is also a charter
member of the Toronto Museum of Art and one of it)s
directors. "The Adelphi Society for the Encourage-
ment of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce," has a tew
members in Canada, of which .Mr. Murray is one. He
assisted in forming the Canadian branch of the Society
of Chemical Industry and is one of the committee of
management.
Water sports and athletics have also had a share of
.Mr. Murray's care, joining the Argonaut Rowing
Club in the year of its foundation, 1872. In 1894, at
the annual meeting, the unique honor was conferred on
Mr. Murray of electing him an honorary-active-life
member and Vice-President for the year. In the early
months of 1903 he brought the old members together,
those who had, in the early years of the Club's exist-
ence, taken some interest in building its reputation as
one of the most important rowing clubs of the world.
The outcome was the formation of the " Argonaut Old
Boys."
The Island Amateur Aquatic Association was
formed by Mr. Murray in the year 1887. Xo organiza-
tion in Canada has done more to encourage the art of
swimming, canoeing and general freedom in water
amusements. The vigorous life shown by the Asso-
ciation, summer after summer, is evidence of the gen-
eral appreciation of necessity for its existence and of
its value.
In 1878 Mr. Murray married Marie Emelie, the
only daughter of Thomas Caron, of St. Eustache,
Que., who died in 1881, leaving a daughter, Marghe-
rita Emelie. In 1883 he again married, espousing
Nanno Josephine, the only daughter of Michael Hayes,
Crown Attorney, County Perth, Ont., who died in
1896, leaving children, Mona Frederica, Stuart Allan,
Hilda Marion, William Alexander and James Athol.
In religion a Catholic, and though taking no promi-
nent part in politics, he always supported the Conser-
vative policy, believing it to be the best for Canadian
interests. |
A strong believer in the future of Canada and in
the unity of the British Empire, he ever gave earnest
support to Imperial Federation and the British Empire
League, being one of the Toronto branch committee in
both, covering a term of over thirty years.
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WILLIAM J. MORRICE,
Mr. William J. Morrice, member of the firm of
David Morrice & Sons, Montreal, Merchants and Man-
ufacturers Agents, is the eldest son of Mr. David Mor-
rice, head of the firm. He was horn in Toronto in
1861, coming to Montreal with his parents while yet
an infant.
Mr. W. J. Morrice was educated at the High
School of Montreal and the Collegiate Institute at Gait,
Ontario. Mr. Morrice and his brother, Mr. D. Mor-
rice, Jr., were both destined for their father's business
from their early boyhood, and special care was bestow-
ed upon equipping them for their lives' work. Before
entering their father's firm they were sent for a period
of two years to Manchester, where they entered the
great dry goods house of Rylands & Sons, Limited, and
served for two years, acquiring a thorough practical
knowledge of the trade. Mr. W. J. Morrice devoted
his attention to the office work to fit himself to take
charge of that department in his father's firm, while his
brother, being destined to take charge of the ware-
houses, went through the different departments of the
great Manchester house.
In 1882, Mr. W. J. Morrice and his brother were
taken into partnership with their father, the firm name
being changed to its present style : David Morrice &
Sons. Mr. W. J. Morrice has devoted himself very
closely to the business of the firm, but his capacity has
been called in requisition by the Cumberland Coal and
Railway Company, which owns and operates big mines
at Springhill, N.S., and of which corporation he is a
director.
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THE LATE WILLIAM MELLIS CHRISTIE.
When the death of the late William Mellis Christie
took place on the i/|.th June, 1900, a prominent figure
in the Toronto commercial and manufacturing world
was lost to view, but his memory will linger for man}'
years among numbers of his fellow citizens, whose ad-
miration and respect he had gained in his long, honor-
able and successful business career. He was born at
Huntly, Scotland, on January 5th, 1829, and after re-
ceiving a good education and apprenticeship in thai
country, came to Canada in 1848, and after engaging
in tihe baking trade for some years, finally settled in
Toronto. Here, in 1849, ne entered the employment
of Messrs. Mathers & Brown, biscuit manufacturers,
as assistant and travelling salesman. In 1850 Mr.
Mathers retired and Mr. Christie became a partner
with Mr. Alex Brown. In 1853 Mr. Brown retired
but in 1861 re-entered the business, when the name,
Christie, Brown & Co. was adopted. Mr. Brown re-
tired in 1878, Mr. Christie continuing alone until June1
ist, 1899, when the business having expanded to such
an extent, it was thought necessary and to the best in-
terests of the concern to form the same into a limited,
company. This was accordingly done and the business)
was incorporated as Christie, Brown & Company,1
Limited, on June ist, 1899, with Mr. William Mellis
Christie as the first President. This company is
the undoubted leader of the biscuit manufacturing in-
dustry throughout the country from coast to coast.
The concern was built up to its present proportion by
the efforts of Mr. Christie from a comparatively
small beginning and has taken the devotion of a life-
time to develop. On June I4th, 1899, a few days after
the formation of the new company, Mr. Christie sailed
for Europe for a well earned rest, and just one year
afterwards he passed peacefully away at his residence,
Queen's Park, Toronto, on 141)1 June, 1900. Prac-
tically, his lifetime was exclusively devoted to his own
business interests, and that of the company, with the
exception that for several years he was a Trustee of
the Toronto University, and from the inception of the
Toronto Industrial Exhibition almost up to the time of
his death, worked hard and continuously to bring it to
the position which it now occupies. In politics he was
a Liberal. He was a member of the Toronto and Na-
tional Clubs and of the St. Andrew's Society. The
favorite occupation of his leisure was the reading of
high-class literature, old books, and studying the lead-
ing scientific, literary and political reviews and period-
icals. He surrounded himself with a fine library of
books at his residence in Toronto, where he also took
great pride in his extensive garden, which he spared
no expense to have cultivated to perfection.
On the 2ist of March, 1855, William Mellis
Christie was married to a Canadian lady, Miss Mary
Jane McMullen, and left four children, Robert Jaf-
fray, Mary Jane, married to John J. Palmer, of Tor-
onto ; Anne Elizabeth, married to D. S. Barclay, of
Toronto, and Fanny Laura, married to T. J. Clark, of
Toronto.
The late Mr. Christie will long be remembered as
a public spirited Torontonian, as well as a generods
and charitable citizen.
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ROBERT JAFFRAY CHRISTIE,
Standing- at the head of one of the largest concerns
of its kind in Canada, Robert Jaffray Christie, the
President of the biscuit manufacturing company, so
widely known throughout the Dominion as Christie,
Brown & Company, Limited, is a notable figure in the
commercial community of Toronto. This extensive
business was founded by his late father, William Mel-
lis Christie, who died on June I4th, 1900, and since.
that event, the subject of this sketch has been at thq
head of its affairs. He was born on the 5th of April.
1870, in Toronto, and is the only son of his parents.
He received a liberal education in Toronto, and at thfe
age of twenty entered into business with his late father
and has devoted the whole of his time to the manage-
ment and development of the business, which has
grown to such dimensions, that it practically leaves
.Mr. Christie but little leisure time. He, however, is
President of the Monetary Times Printing Company,
besides being interested in various other commercial
and financial enterprises.
Politically he is of Liberal tendencies. He is a
member of the Toronto Club, the National Club, the
Hunt Club, the Lambton Golf Club, the Royal Cana-
dian Yacht Club, the Lacrosse Club and other recrea-
tion clubs. He has always been a strong supporter of)
football and encourages all manly sports. He is also a
member of the St. Andrew's Society.
Robert Jaffray Christie was married on February
29th, 1895, to a daughter of J. R. Lee, of Toronto. He
has three children, Win. Lee, Irving Huntley and
Katharine. His residence is at No. 55 Wellesley
street, Toronto.
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CHARLES NEWHOUSE ARMSTRONG,
Mr. Charles Newhouse Armstrong, of Montreal, is
one of the most active and best known railway men in
the Dominion of Canada. He was born at the Manor
House of de Lanaudiere, Maskinonge County, Quebec,
March igth, 1850. His father was the Hon. James
Armstrong, C.M.G., who attained marked distinction
as Chief Justice of St. Lucia and St. Vincent, British
West Indies, and was well known as an advocate in
Montreal, and also as Chairman of the Labor Commis-
sion, and President of the Montreal and Sorel Railway
Company. His mother, whose maiden name was Char-
lotte Olivier, was a daughter of Hercules Olivier of
Berthier, Que., and grand daughter of Louis Olivier,
who was a member of the first Legislature of Quebec
in 1792. The Armstrong's came to Canada from New
York in 1783, after the American revolution, Mr. Arm-
strong's great-grandfather, Edward Armstrong, being
then ten years old, He was afterwards Harbor Mas-
ter of Montreal, and his son, Charles, as well as several
of his brothers, were interested in shipping. Charles
and his brother Jesse commanded some of the first
steamers running regularly on the line between Quebec
and Montreal. Captain Charles Armstrong was for
many years closely identified with the work of improv-
ing the navigation of the St. Lawrence between Mon-
treal and Quebec. After completing his education at
the Sorel Model School, Mr. Charles N. Armstrong in
1863, went to St. Louis, Mo., where he entered the
general passenger department of the Ohio and Miss-
issippi Railway. During an experience of three years
he obtained a good insight into the details of railway
work, serving in various departments of the general
offices of the Company mentioned. At the outbreak
of the Fenian troubles in 1866, actuated by the patriotic
impulse which caused many Canadians to throw up
positions in the United States to return to Canada, and
assist in the defence of their native land, Mr. Arm-
strong came back to Canada and joined the volunteer
forces. Mr. Armstrong also served during the Fenian
Raids of 1870, and was awarded the medal with two
clasps. After the collapse of the Fenian trouble, Mr.
Armstrong remained in Montreal and engaged in mer-
cantile pursuits, which in course of time took him to
the United States and Great Britain.
Returning to Canada in 1881, he became actively
engaged in railway construction. He organized the
Montreal and Sorel Railway and constructed it, also
the Great Northern Railway, of which he constructed
two sections. He also constructed the first twenty
miles of the Pontiac Pacific Railway, two sections of
the Great Eastern Railway, the Montreal and Lake
Maskinonge Railway, the Lachute and St. Andrew's
Railway, and the Baie des Chaleurs Railway. He or-
ganized the Atlantic and Lake Superior Railway,
which amalgamated and consolidated several of the
above local lines. Mr. Armstrong has always been a
very active Conservative, and the accession of the Lib-
eral Government to power upset the plans of the At-
lantic and Lake Superior Railway Company, the new
government being very hostile to it. This has led to
litigation between the company and the government,
and, pending the decision of the Courts, the company
has been obliged to suspend construction.
At the present time Mr. Armstrong holds the posi-
tions of General Manager of the Atlantic and Lake
Superior Railway Company, and President of the Baie
des Chaleurs Railway Company.
Mr. Armstrong has made a special study of rail-
way legislation. Being one of the most energetic of
Canada's citizens, and with the long and varied exper-
ience he has had in practical railroading in Canada he
has come to be considered as one of the leading author-
ities on railway matters in Canada.
Mr. Armstrong was married July i8th, 1871, to
Frances Amelia, daughter of J. E. Johnstone, M.D., of
Sorel, Que. Their family consists of the following :
Charles J. Armstrong, Captain in the 5th Royal Scots
of Canada, at present District Engineer of the South
African Railways, Harrismith, Orange River Colony :
Bertie H. O. Armstrong, Captain Royal Engineers,
Director Public Works, Orange River Colony, Bloem-
fontein, O.R.C. ; Edgar N. Armstrong, Captain 5th
Royal Scots, advocate, Montreal ; F. Percy Arm-
strong, Lieutenant (unattached) London, Eng. ; J.
Hector de L. Armstrong, Lieut. 5th Royal Scots of
Canada ; F. Logic Armstrong, Cadet Royal Military
College, Kingston ; Mabel Charlotte Armstrong, mar-
ried to Captain William Bentham of the 2nd Regiment
Canadian Artillery : Miss Florence Elsie Armstrong,
unmarried. It will be observed that Mr. Armstrong's
six sons as well as his son-in-law, all wear His Maj-
esty's uniform. Mrs. Armstrong's family, for many
generations back has also been connected with the
British army.
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THE LATE C. R SMITHERS.
Of all the names of eminent financiers closely
identified with the history of the Bank of Montreal,
none stands out more prominently than that of the
late Mr. C. F. Smithers.
Mr. Smithers was born in London, England, in
1822, and early in life entered upon the business of
banking. He came to Canada in 1847 as tnc
accountant of the Bank of British North America,
with which institution he was for some years sub-
sequently identified, serving in the Montreal office for
seven years as accountant and sub-manager, then as
manager of the branch at Brantford, Out, where he
remained for two and a half years, when he was pro-
moted to the management of the bank at St. John,
New Brunswick. On June 1st, 1858, he entered the
service of the Bank of Montreal, going to New York
as senior agent of the agency in that city, which posi-
tion he held until May, 1863, when he resigned and
returned to Montreal to take charge of the branch of
the London and Colonial Bank in the Canadian Com-
mercial Metropolis. Three years later he again took
up his residence in New York, and entered upon busi-
ness as a private banker, which he followed until 1869,
when he once more joined the Bank of Montreal,
resuming the position of chief agent in that city.
Upon the resignation of Mr. R. B. Angus as general
manager in the autumn of 1879, expectation instinc-
tively turned to Mr. Smithers as his successor, and it
was in accordance with popular opinion that the
directors called Mr. Smithers to the management of
the bank. Two years later, in June, 1881, he was
elected president of the institution and its active
executive head, a position he continued to fill with
great ability and unchecked success down to the time
of his death, 1887.
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GEORGE HAMPDEN SMITHERS.
Mr. George Hampden Smithers, stock-broker,
Montreal, belongs to a family intimately associated
with the financial history of Canada. He was born in
Brooklyn, N.Y., April 7th, 1863, the son of Charles F.
Smithers and Martha Shearman Smithers, his wife.
Mr. Charles F. Smithers, banker, came to Canada in
the service of the Bank of British North America, and
later entering the Bank of Montreal, served in nearly
every position therein, including that of President,
which high post of trust he held at the time of his
death in 1887.
Mr. George Hampden Smithers was educated in
Brooklyn, N.Y., and entered the Bank of Montreal at
the head office in 1879, staying there two years. In
1 88 1 he entered the brokerage firm of Burnett & Co.,
becoming a partner therein in 1887. On the death of
Mr. James Burnett, the senior partner, in 1894, Mr.
Smithers took the position of head of the firm, retain-
ing the name of Burnett & Company, and associating
with him in partnership Mr. James Pangman, who left
the Merchants' Bank of Canada to enter the firm.
Mr. Smithers has been on the Governing Com-
mittee of the Montreal Stock Exchange for about
seven years, holding the positions of Secretary-Treas-
urer, Vice-President and President, from which latter
position he retired in May, 1901.
Mr. Smithers was married in 1890 to Miss Frances
Clark Cook, of Philadelphia, and their family consists
of two daughters : Frances C. Smithers and M. Geor-
gina Smithers.
Mr. Smithers is a member of the St. James Club,
Mount Royal Club, Forest and Stream Club, Montreal
Hunt Club, etc., etc.
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FELIX CARBRAY.
FELIX CARBRAY— or Phclim O'Cairbre, as his
Gaelic friends prefer to call him, was born at Quebec
on the 22iid December, 1835, and was brought up at
the old historic "Holland House," on St. Foy's Road.
(See Lemoine's Picturesque Quebec, page 410). His
parents were from the County Tyrone, Ireland. They
came to Canada in the early 3o's. His father was
Niall Carbray, and born at Carrickcastle, near Dun-
gannon — the old Carbray homestead still exists there
and is occupied by a member of the family. His
mother was Catherine Connolly, a native of Clogher,
County Tyrone.
Felix Carbray was educated at private schools and
at the Christian Brothers, in his native city. Fndowed
with natural talents of no ordinary character and with
a thirst for knowledge, he applied himself earnestly
in the effort to improve his education in every possible
way. He distinguished himself in mathematics and
English literature. He was endowed with a great
aptitude for the acquisition of foreign languages, and
is familiar with the Spanish. Portuguese, Italian and
French. He is as thoroughly familiar with French as
with English. He has often been complimented on his
proficiency in the former, speaking it with the elegance
of a '"Parisian."
Thus well equipped with a superior education and
a worthy ambition to make his mark in life, he began
a business course in April. 1854, as an accountant,
which he continued in some of the leading business
houses in his native city for 15 years.
In May, 1869, he opened an office on his own
account in the general commission and shipping busi-
ness, which from the beginning was most successful.
In the spring of 1870, lie took as a partner, Francis
Alexander Routh, son of the late Sir Randolph Routh.
His mother was a Taschereau, sister of the late Car-
dinal Taschereau and of the late Chief Justice
Taschereau. The new firm "Carbray & Routh," which
a few years later became "Carbray, Routh & Co.,"
opened an office also in Montreal, Mr. Carbray manag-
ing the business of the Quebec office and Mr. Routh
that of the Montreal office. The new firm had a long,
prosperous and honorable career. No firm was more
widely known all over the business world, nor did any
stand higher for integrity and honorability.
The partnership, having expired in 1900, was dis-
solved and the affairs liquidated ; this being found to
the mutual advantage of the associates.
Mr. Carbray continued the business at Quebec
with his son, William, under the name of " Carbray,
Son & Co.," and Mr. Routh that of Montreal under
the style of "F. A. Routh & Co." Both firms have
been very successful and bid fair to go on down the
generations as many of the old houses of Europe.
The high character and abilities of Felix Carbray
at an early date attracted the attention of his fellow
citizens, and every mark of esteem and confidence was
shown him. He loved Ireland, the land of his fathers,
with an intense love, and threw himself heart and soul
into every movement tending to promote her cause or
the welfare of his race. No Irishman of his time in
Quebec, did more to raise the prestige of the Irish
race and the cause of Ireland among the peoples of
other races and creeds.
In 1883, "Redpath's Weekly" says of Mr.
Carbray : —
" He is a gentleman of high culture and deep
"learning. His linguistic attainments are also re-
" markable. He speaks the French and English
" languages with equal fluency, and as both are used
" in the Quebec Legislature, Mr. Carbray addresses
" the House in one or the other with equal elegancy.
" as circumstances may require. He also converses
" freely in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
" The high esteem in which he is held by his Irish
" fellow-citizens, is best shown by the fact that they
" have never missed an occasion to put him in every
" place of honor and trust within their gift. He is at
"' present their worthy representative in the Parliament
" of the Province of Quebec, as a member of the West
" Division of the city, which, though it contains the
" leading British commercial men of Quebec, is con-
"' trolled by the Irish vote.
" Mr. Carbray is an eloquent and forcible orator,
" his recent speech on the occasion of the reading
" of ' the speech from the throne,' having been pro-
" nounced bv the Canadian press as the most remark -
" able English speech ever delivered in the Quebec
" Legislature.
" In his public capacity Mr. Carbray has never
"' made an enemy, while as a private citizen he has
" hosts of friends."
Rose, in his " Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography,"
says of him :—
" He was educated at Quebec, where he has resi-
" ded throughout his life, though he has travelled
" extensively in America and Europe, principally on
" business connected with the trade in lumber, in
'' which his house is engaged. He was one of the
" pioneers of the lumber trade between the St. Law-
" rence and South America, and is still lareely in-
" terested in it. In addition to his other duties, he
" fills the important position of Consul of Portugal
" at the oort of Quebec. A Roman Catholic in reli-
" ?ion, Mr. Carbray has been honored by the St.
" Patrick's congregation of Quebec with election and
" re-election as one of the trustees of their church, and
" is also a trustee of that noble Irish Catholic charity,
" the St. Bridget's Asylum, of Quebec. He has taken
" an equally active and leading part in all the local
" rational movements of his fellow-countrvmen, and
" has been president of the St. Patrick's Literary In-
" stitute,- the Irish National Association, and other
" Irish bodies in Quebec. He is a IJberal-Conser-
" vative in politics, and at the provincial general elec-
" tions in 1881, yielding to the solicitations of his
" friends, he ran as the party candidate for the electoral
" division of Quebec West and, after a hard fight, was
" elected by a good majority to represent that con-
" stituency injhe Legislative Assembly in the province.
" His parliamentary career was very creditable.
' Though he did not often address the House, he was
" always listened to with the utmost respect, being an
" equally good speaker and debater in both English
" and French, and never wasting his powder except
" on serious and interesting subjects with which he
" was most conversant, such especially as questions of
" finance and commerce. In fact, so marked a figure
" was he in this respect in the Legislature from 1881 to
1886, that rumor frequently connected his name with
" a cabinet office, and there is little doubt that had he
" continued in public life and his party been re-elected
" to power at the general elections of 1886, he would
" have sooner or later, entered the provincial ministry.
" During the last session of his term, he was the mover
" in the Legislative Assembly of the Resolutions
" adopted by that body in favor of granting Home
" Rule to Ireland, and expressing sympathy with Mr.
" Gladstone in his efforts to solve the Irish problem
" peacefully without dismembering the Empire. At
" the general elections on the I4th October, he again
" ran as the Liberal-Conservative candidate for Que-
" bee West and, though political feeling in the province
" ran high at the time, owing to the Riel agitation, was
" only defeated by the slender majority of eight votes,
" owing largely to over confidence on the part of his
'' friends. Since then Mr. Carbray has devoted him-
" self exclusively to the management of the large and
" growing business of his firm."
In May, 1854, he married Miss Margaret Car-
berry, a daughter of the late William Carberry, of
Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, of whom he had a large and
interesting family — four sons and six daughters, those
still living are : Herbert, of Montreal ; William, Que-
bec ; Thomas John, a promising young lawyer ; Mrs.
P. L. Connor, Boston ; Mrs. Alfred Carroll, Montreal,
and Grace. His youngest daughter Grace and son
Thomas live with him at " Benburb Place," the Ram-
parts.
Mrs. Carbray died in May, 1895. She was in
every way worthy of her distinguished husband : a
patrotic Irish wqman and revered and esteemed for
her piety and devotedness to God's poor.
In October, 1902, he married Miss Bridget Car-
berry — widow of the late Nicholas K. Connolly —
sister of his first wife. The marriage ceremony was
performed at St. Gabriel's Church. New York, by
His Grace Archbishop Farley. She died on the ist
of July, 1903, deeply regretted by her sorrowing
husband and all who knew her. A most amiable
lady and, like her sister, devoted to the poor.
Mr. Carbray has filled many distinguished posi-
tions in his life ; he is held in high esteem by his fellow-
citizens of all races, creeds and politics.
He is at present a member of the Quebec Harbor
Commission, of the Quebec Board of Trade, Consul
for Portugal, and, being the oldest Consul here, is dean
of the Consular Corps, senior trustee of St. Patrick's
Church, of the St. Bridget's Asylum Association, pre-
dent of the United Irish League, etc., etc.
Mr. Carbray is an ardent upholder of the move-
ment for the revival of the old Irish language — the
Gaelic. He delivered a lecture on this subject at Tara
Hall, Quebec, in April, 1899, which displayed pro-
found knowledge of the subject, and attracted the
attention and enconiums of the whole Celtic world.
The Honorable Justice Routhier, in his important
work "Quebec et Levis a 1'Aurore du 2oieme Siecle,"
has this to say of Mr. Carbray : —
" La famille Carbray (ou plutot O'Cairbre, en
"celtiquej, est une des plus anciennes de la vieille
" Irlande ; elle remonte aux Ard-Ris ou Rois
" Supremes de ITrlande, vers le commencement de
" 1'ere chretienne, dont l'un des plus illustres etait le
" roi ' Cairbre Liffeacher,' fils du grand roi " Cormac
Mac Art," descendant direct de Heremon, premier
" chef des Milesiens. II est assez curieux de con-
" stater que la reine Victoria reclame la meme lignee,
" du cote de ses ancetres Ecossais. I est de fait
" historique que les " Highlanders," les vrais Ecossais,
" sont d'origine irlandaise. La premiere colonie, sous
" leur chef " Cairbre Riada," fils du roi d'lrlande,
" ayant traverse de 1'Irlande en Argylshire, en
" Ecosse, au lieme siecle, d'apres le Venerable Bede.
"ayant traversee de 1'Irlande en Argylshire, en
" Ceci explique le Lion-Cairbre, quit a ete conserve
" par les Ecossais sur les armes brittaniques.
" La devise " Dia a's Ccart " est en langue celtique
" et vent dire : Dieu et le Droit, ou. Dieu ct h
" Justice."
We are pleased to be able to reproduce the
" Cairbre " Arms. According to O'Hart's notable
work " Irish Pedigrees," the Carbray family are traced
back to King " Cairbre," Ard-Righ of Ireland in the
second century — the Solomon of the Irish Monarchy.
In religion Mr. Carbray is a Roman Catholic.
In politics, a life long and unswerving Conserva-
tive.
Mr. Carbray is a member of several important
foreign societies ; among others, he is a life member of
the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society
of Antiquaries, of Dublin. He is also vice-president
of the American Irish Historical Society, of which
President Roosevelt is a member.
FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMPSON.
Frederick William Thompson, Montreal, merchant
miller, vice-president and managing- director of the
Ogilvie Flour Mills Company, was born at Montreal,
January i6th, 1862. His father was Andrew Thomp-
son, accountant and his mother's maiden name Jose-
phine D. Lesperance. Mr. Thompson is of Scottish
extraction on his father's side, on his mother's French.
Mr. Thompson was educated at Montreal and Brook-
lyn, N.Y., and inaugurated his business career in the
banking business. He entered the service of the Ogil-
vies, the great Canadian milling firm, in 1892, and was
in time promoted to the management of the Winnipeg
branch of the business. When the business was or-
ganized into a limited liability company, Mr. Thomp-
son was elected vice-president and managing director,
and removed to Montreal. His removal from Winni-
peg was greatly regretted by the people of the prairie
city, where he had identified himself with local public
affairs, holding for some time the position of president
of the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Association.
Mr. Thompson is a director of the Crown Life Insur-
ance Company, and the Winnipeg General Power
Company, and is also a member of the governing body
of the Havergal Ladies' College, Winnipeg.
Mr. Thompson was married to Wilhelima Reid, of
Bedford, Que., and there have been issue of the union
one son and three daughters as follows : Frank H.
Thompson, Marion Thompson, Ada Thompson and
Helen Thompson.
Mr. Thompson is a member of the St. James Club,
Montreal ; Forest and Stream Club, Dorval ; Mani-
toba Club, Winnipeg, and the Commercial Club, Win-
nipeg.
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WILLIAM MOLSON MACPHERSON.
William Molson Macpherson, president of the
Molson's Bank, was born in Montreal, September
24th, 1848, and was the eldest son of the late Sir
David L. Macpherson, K.C.M.G., Chestnut Park,
Toronto, Privy Councillor for the Dominion, formerly
speaker of the Canadian Senate, and Minister of the
Interior, by his wife, Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of
the late William Molson, of Montreal.
Mr. Macpherson was educated at Leamington Col-
lege and at Hastings, Eng., and received his business
training under Messrs. A. F. & R. Maxwell, Liver-
pool. In 1870 he removed to Quebec, and in 1872
he took a financial interest in the Dominion Steamship
Company, and has ever since had an active part in the
management of the company, having had charge, with
marked success, of the Quebec agency. He was
appointed one of the Harbour Commissioners of Que-
bec in 1896, and holds other important offices. He-
was for many years on the directorate of the Molsons
Bank, and was elected president of that institution
on the demise of J. H. R. Molson, the previous occu-
pant, June, 1897. Mr. Macpherson is a member of
the Church of England. Politically he is a Conser-
vative. He married, 1878, Maria Stuart, daughter of
the late D. T. Wotherspoon, of Quebec. His resi-
dence is 73 St. Ursule street, Quebec. He is a mem-
ber of the Garrison Club, Quebec ; St. James Club
and Mount Royal Club, Montreal ; Toronto Club,
Junior Athenaeum Club and Royal Colonial Institute,
London, Eng.
R. A. DUNTON, B.C.L., N.P.
Robert Andrew Dunton was born in Richmond,
Quc., I3th February, 1862, being the eldest son of the
late George Dunton and Agnes Wilson, the former a
native of Norwich, England, and the latter of Perth-
shire, Scotland. Mr. Dunton removed to Montreal
when about twenty years of age. His preliminary
education was received at St. Francis Grammar School
and College. He began his professional studies in the
office of the late C. P. Cleveland, N.P., and took his-
law course in McGill University, graduating with
honors. On admission to practice in 1883, he entered
the firm of Gushing & Hunter, and continued with thai
firm till 1899, the firm being then known as Gushing,
Dunton & Barren. The present firm is Dunton &
Baby.
Mr. Dunton was appointed joint notary to the City
of Montreal in 1898, and is notary to a number of large
companies and institutions in the city, including several
of the principal banks and estates. He enjoys the con-
fidence and esteem of his legal brethren, and, although
a comparatively young man, stands in the front rank of
his profession, and has an extensive private practice.
He is a member of the Board of Notaries, which con-
trols the admission to the study and practice of the pro-
fession, and corresponds to the Bar of the Province
among advocates.
Mr. Dunton is a life governor of the Montreal
General Hospital and director of the Merchants' Tele-
phone Company, and of other private industrial com-
panies.
He married in 1892 in Montreal, Lila Warden, eld-
est daughter of the Rev. R. H. Warden, D.D.
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ALBERT JOSEPH BROWN, ICC.
Albert Joseph Brown, K.C., Advocate, Montreal,
is a native of the Eastern Townships, having been born
at Windsor Mills, Que., July 8th, 1861, the son of
Shepherd Joseph Brown, Farmer, and Jennet Shanks,
his wife. Mr. IJrown's ancestors lived in Massachus-
sets prior to 1671, moving to Plymouth, New Hamp-
shire, in 1764. In 1 80 1 the family settled at Windsor,
Que. Mr. Brown's mother was of Scottish parent-
age.
Mr. Brown was educated at St. Francis College,
Richmond, Morrin College, Quebec, and McGill Uni-
versity, Montreal. From the latter institution of
learning he graduated in Arts in 1883, and in Law in
1886, winning the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal.
During his law course, Mr. Brown was a student with
the late W. H. Kerr, Q.C., and Mr. C. B. Carter, K.C.
On admission to the Bar Mr. Brown became a
partner of the late L. N. Benjamin, and upon his death
in 1887, became a member of the firm of Chapleau,
Hall, Nicolls & Brown, of which firm, the present one
of Hall, Cross, Brown and Sharp are successors.
Mr. Brown has kept out of politics, devoting his
time exclusively to the practice of his profession, and
thus winning an enviable position in it comparatively
early in his career. He was appointed a Q.C. in
1899.
He was married in Quebec, 1888, to Josephine
Home.
Mr. Brown is a member of the Mount Royal, St.
James, Forest and Stream, Montreal, Royal Montreal
Golf, and Thistle Curling Clubs, and the Montreal
Amateur Athletic Association.
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HECTOR MACKENZIE.
The late Hector Mackenzie, for many years one
of the leading merchants and capitalists of the City of
Montreal, was born in that city May 3rd, 1843, n's
parents being J. G. Mackenzie, head of the great
wholesale drygoods house of J. G. Mackenzie & Com-
pany, and Seraphina Gates, his wife. As may be
judged from the name, Mr. Mackenzie's ancestors
came from Scotland. After being educated at the
High School of Montreal, Mr. Mackenzie entered the
firm of J. G. Mackenzie & Company, retaining his
connection therewith, and being its head at the time
of his death, August 2Oth, 1901. Mr. Mackenzie
was for many years a director of the Merchants Bank
of Canada, and for several years Vice-President. A
man of keen patriotic feeling, he at an early age identi-
fied himself with the militia force, holding for several
years a commission in the old 5th Royal Light In-
fantry, and as one of the senior captains of that dis-
tinguished regiment, assisting in its reorganization as
the Fifth Royal Fusileers (now the 5th Royal Scots),
in 1876. He was a most generous and valued patron
of art, and, being himself an accomplished musician,
devoted much time and means to the encouragement
of the public taste for music. He was for years the
President, and a strong financial supporter of the
Montreal Philharmonic Society. The beautiful
celestial organ in Christ Church Cathedral, and various
costly contributions towards the completion of the
superb main organ in the same sacred edifice are living
memorials of his liberality and love of music.
Mr. Mackenzie was married June 9th, 1870, to
Martha A. H. Alger, daughter of Cyrus Alger, of
Boston. Their family consisted of two daughters and
one son, Marguerite E., married to H. Montagu Allan,
of Montreal, October i8th, 1893, Miss Evelyn A. Mac-
kenzie and Mr. J. Gordon Mackenzie.
FRANK PAUL.
Mr. Frank Paul. President and Treasurer of Beld-
ing. Paul & Company, (Limited), Montreal, was born
in Philadclphi in 1847, n's parents being of old Penn-
sylvania Dutch stock. In 1853, Mr. Paul went with
his parents to the Western States where he was edu-
cated. At the age of nineteen he returned to the east,
where he entered a large wholesale dry goods house,
rapidly rising in the service, soon becoming its "credit
man." After the panic of 1873 the business of the
house with which he was connected dwindled away,
and as he saw no immediate prospect of an improve-
ment under existing conditions he decided to accept an
offer from Messrs. Belding Brothers and Company, a
leading United States silk manufacturing firm, to take
charge of a branch manufacturing establishment in
Montreal. So in July, 1877, Mr. Paul arrived in Mon-
treal and established the firm of Belding, Paul and
Company, the pioneer house of the Canadian silk in-
dustry. The original arrangement between Mr. Paul
and the Messrs. Belding Brothers was in the nature of
a three years trial, and the present extensive plant at
the St. Gabriel Locks, Montreal, is the best proof of the
result. The development of the firm's business has
been well maintained from the very start.
In 1890 the Canadian firm dissolved all connections
with the United States house of Belding Brothers, and
formed an independent limited liability Company, of
which Mr. Paul was elected and is still President and
Treasurer. In addition to his position as head of the
leading silk house of Canada, Mr. Paul is a director of
the Colonial Bleaching Company, the Halifax Tram
Railway Company, the Montreal Cold Storage Com-
pany, and the Kootenay Coal and Mining Company.
Mr. Paul is married and has a family of three chil-
dren.
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DUNCAN M. STEWART.
Mr. Duncan M. Stewart, banker, Montreal, general
manager of the Sovereign Bank of Canada, is the eld-
est son of an Edinburgh Scotsman, William Stewart,
of Hamilton, Out. He was born at Muckross, Kil-
larney, Ireland, March 3ist, 1869, and was educated
at the Muckross National School and St. Brendan's
College, Killarney. He came with his parents to Can-
ada in 1886, and entered upon his business life at Ham-
ilton, Ont., in the office of Dun, Wiman & Co. In Oc-
tober of the same year he accepted his first appoint-
ment in the business in which he has attained such dis-
tinction, that of a junior clerk in the Hamilton office of
the Traders' Bank of Canada. In April, 1887, he was
appointed Secretary to the General Manager of the
Bank in Toronto, leaving that position a few months
afterwards to accept a similar appointment with the
General Manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
In 1891 he was transferred to the New York office of
the Bank, where he remained until 1895, when he be-
came successively Secretary to the Manager and Chief
Discount Clerk of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at
Montreal. In May, 1897, he accepted an offer from
the Merchants' Bank of Halifax in Montreal, as In-
spector. He was, indeed, practically assistant to the
newly-appointed General Manager of that Bank, and
rendered invaluable service in changing the whole
routine system of that institution when it changed its
name to the Royal Bank of Canada. In 1901, when
the directors of the Sovereign Bank of Canada requir-
ed a man to organize and manage that new institution,
Mr. Stewart was selected and in due course accepted
the offer and became the first General Manager of the
Sovereign Bank of Canada in July, 1901. Upon com-
pletion of the organization, which was very successful,
his appointment was formally confirmed by the Board
in April, 1902, just sixteen years after he had arrived,
a young lad, and a stranger in this country. He was
thus thirty-two years of age when he assumed this im-
portant position, and was then, as he is still, the young-
est General Manager of any chartered bank in tht)
Dominion. The Sovereign Bank has made great pro-
gress under his management, the Government state-
ment showing steady, healthy progress month by month
at the end of 1903, its total assets amounting to more
than seven million dollars, a record never equalled by
any Canadian Bank in the same time.
Mr. Stewart's chief hobby is soldiering, and be
holds a commission as Major in the 6th Duke of Con-
naught's Royal Canadian Hussars, Montreal. He is
also a champion oarsman, and athlete. He has been a
prize essayist as a writer on banking and kindred sub-
jects, and a series of lectures which he delivered in
Montreal during the winter of 1903-4 on "Canadian
Banking," were very largely attended, and attracted
widespread attention by their practical and popular
treatment of the subject.
Mr. Stewart was married June 5th, 1895, to Kath-
erine, Lizzie Clark, youngest daughter of Peter Mc-
Naughton Clark, of Toronto, and has one child, Kath-
leen Winifred. Mr. Stewart is a member of the St.
James' Club, Montreal Club, Montreal Hunt, Canada
Club, Military Institute and Y.M.C.A., Montreal;
National Club and Toronto Hunt, Toronto, and the
Rideau Club, Ottawa. He is an adherent of the
Church of England.
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GEORGE ROSS ROBERTSON.
George Ross Robertson, the head of the well-known
firm of Insurance Brokers. G. Ross Robertson & Sons,
whose offices are in the Bell Telephone Company's
Building, 1760 Notre Dame Street, Montreal, was born
in that city on 2nd June, 1864. His father, the late
George Ross Robertson, who died in 1895, was also a
native of Montreal, and was the pioneer of Insurance
Brokerage in Canada, laying the foundation of the ex-
isting business in 1865. His eldest son, the subject of
this sketch, was educated at Faucett's School, the then
leading private academy in Montreal.
On completing his education, he entered the Mon-
treal offices of the North British Mercantile Insurance
Company, and spent three years gaining a thorough
experience of the insurance business in all its various
details. Upon leaving the company's employ in 1885,
Mr. G. Ross Robertson joined his father in partnership
in the insurance brokerage business, and subsequently
in 1890, his younger brother, W. Stewart Robertson
was admitted as a partner, and the firm of G. Ross
Robertson & Sons, was established under its present
name.
Mr. G. Ross Robertson has devoted his life to the
development of the business of his firm, in which he
and his brother are sole partners, until it now stands at
the head of the Insurance Brokerage houses in Canada.
The business consists principally of arraying large
lines of Fire Insurance in all parts of the Dominion,
negotiating policies with every Insurance Company,
and acting as the confidential agents of the assured not
only in the issuance of policies, but in the protection
of his clients in keeping all renewals in force, adjust-
ing claims for their best advantage, and in fact secur-
ing them in every possible way from loss without any
trouble to themselves individually. The firm's business
carried on with the strictest integrity, and on the most
conservative, yet modern methods, has expanded to
such an extent, that it practically has demanded the
devotion by Mr. G. Ross Robertson of all his time,
energy and experience. A large business is transacted
with the United States, and a very large and increasing
volume of Life assurance is effected with the principal
companies. Mr. Robertson is the acknowledged lead-
ing insurance broker in the city of Montreal, and his
personal services in this direction are in great demand.
He is Vice-President of the Dominion Woollen Manu-
facturing Company of Beauharnois, Quebec, and a
governor of the Montreal General Hospital.
In private life, Mr. Robertson is an enthusiastic,
patron of all healthy outdoor sport, exciting great in-
terest, help and encouragement from him. He is a
member of the St. James Club, the Montreal City Club,
the Forest and Stream Club, and in connection with
his membership of the St. Andrew's Society, it may be
mentioned that although Canadians for three genera-
tions, Mr. Robertson's ancestors were of Scotch origin.
Mr. G. Ross Robertson married a daughter of the
late Mr. R. W. Shepherd, of Montreal, on April 8th,
1890. He has two sons, George Ross Robertson, and
Robert Ward Shepherd Robertson. His residence is
213 Drummond Street, Montreal.
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CHARLES PAGE SCLATER.
Mr. Charles Page Sclater, Secretary-Treasurer of
the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Montreal,
was born February 2nd, 1850, at Dover, England, the
son of H. Sclater, a retired officer of the Royal Navy,
and Rachel Page, his wife. He received his educa-
tion at a private school in England, and on leaving
that institution was articled to a leading firm of Lon-
don Accountants, Messrs. Kemp, Ford and Company.
Here he acquired a thorough grounding in sound
business methods, which have since served him in good
stead. Mr. Sclater left England in 1876 to assume
the management of a cotton business in South Caro-
lina, came to Canada from that State in 1877, and in-
vested in oil wells in Petrolea, Out. He was acting
secretary of the Dominion Telegraph Company in 1879,
and in 1880, on the formation of the Bell Telephone
Company, became its first Secretary-Treasurer, oc-
cupying that important position ever since. Mr.
Sclater is also connected with other important com-
mercial corporations, and is director of the Northern
Electric and Manufacuring Company, Limited, and
the Hamilton Power Company.
Mr. Sclater is a past-President of the St. George's
Society of Montreal, and has for years been closely
identified with the charitable work of that influential
organization.
Like most Englishmen, .Mr. Sclater regards manly
exercise as a duty as well as a pleasure. He was
well known in rowing and football circles in England
between 1870 and 1876. rowing at Henley in the
Kingston Crews of 1874, 1875 and 1876, and playing
on the South of England football teams at about the
same period. Soon after crossing the Atlantic he
stroked the South Carolina Rowing Club four to vic-
tory at the Charleston Regatta in 1877. In Montreal,
where he has resided since 1880, his active interest in
all outdoor sports and amusements has been felt and
appreciated. He was in turn identified with the Old
Montreal Cricket Club, the old Montreal Toboggan-
ing Club, the winter carnival committee and the St.
George's Snowshoe Club. ( )f the latter organization
he was First Yice-President in 1885 and 1886, and
President in 1890 and 1891.
Mr. Sclater was married to Margaret Wilde, of
Hamilton, Ont. in 1878, and their family consists of
four daughters and two sons : — Mabel, Edna, Ivy,
Charles Henry, Arthur Norman and Marjorie.
Mr. Sclater is a member of the Montreal Club.
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WILLIAM HANSON.
Mr. William Hanson, Investment broker, of the
well known firm of Hanson Brothers, Canada Life
Building'. Montreal, was born at Fowey, Cornwall,
England, April 14, 1851, his parents being Captain
Joseph Hanson, and his wife Mary Ann Hanson.
Mr. Hanson was educated at Fowey and at the
Stratford High School, and came to Montreal in 1881
as Manager of the Travellers' Insurance Company of
Hartford. He was subsequently appointed Chief
Agent of the company for Canada. In 1893 he became
a partner of the firm of Hanson Brothers, investment
brokers, of Montreal.
Mr. Hanson has contributed notably to the com-
mercial advancement of Canada by taking an active
and very conspicuous part in the flotation, amalgama
tion, re-organization and financing of many important
companies in Canada, notably the Crows' Xest Pass
Coal Company, the British Columbia Southern Rail
way Company, the Quebec & Lake St. John Railway
Company, the Quebec Street Railway, the Chateau-
guay & Northern Railway, the Ottawa Northern &
Western, and many other similar corporations.
He holds manj honorable and responsible posiuons
on the Boards of leading companies. He is first Vice-
president of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway
and a director of the following : — Richelieu & Ontario
Navigation Company, the Canada Coal and Railway
Company, the British Columbia Southern Railway, the
Ottawa Northern & Western Railway, the Dominion
Guarantee Company, the Montreal Water & Power
Company, the Quebec Railway, Light & Power Com-
pany, and others. He was managing director for man)
years of the Crows' Nest Pass Coal Company.
Mr. Hanson was married in 1876 at Napanee, to
Ada Maria Daly (since deceased). Of the issue of
this union there were two sons and two daughters : —
Florence Meredith, Reginald (deceased), William
Gordon and Beatrice Grange.
Mr. Hanson's residence is " Restormel," West-
mount, Que., and he is a member of the following
clubs : — St. James' Club, Montreal ; Montreal Club,
Ricleau Club, Ottawa ; Scottish Conservative Club,
Edinburgh ; Westmount Tennis Club and the West-
mount Golf Club.
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EDWIN HANSON.
Mr. Edwin Hanson, member of the firm of Hanson
Brothers, investment brokers and dealers in govern-
ment, railway and other securities, Canada Life Build-
ing, Montreal, was born December 28th. 1853, at
Fowey, Cornwall, England, his father being Captain
Joseph Hanson, a master mariner. All of Mr. Han-
son's ancestors were English. He was educated at the
Fowey Grammar School, and started upon his business
career in Cardiff, Wales, as junior in the office of a
dry dock and ship-building firm. After a year he left
the firm and came to Canada, where he entered the
employ of John Green & Company, wholesale dry-
goods merchants, of London, Out. Mr. Hanson
entered the office of the house and became cashier,
retaining that position until he left to start a business
in Montreal with his brother, Mr. C. A. Hanson, now
of London, England. This is the business now con-
ducted by Mr. Hanson and his brother Willhm, under
the firm stvle of Hanson Brothers.
Mr. Hanson's connections and high financial stand-
ing have earned him many positions of high trust in
influential financial corporations, not only of Canada,
but of other countries. At the present time he is
president of the Montreal Water and Power Company,
of the Havana Electric Railway Company, and a
director of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway
Company. He is a member of the St. James,
Montreal and Royal Montreal Golf Clubs, all of
Montreal ; of the Toronto Club, Toronto ; the Forest
and Stream Club, Dorval, and the Canada Club, of
London, England.
Mr. Hanson was married in 1879 at Toronto, to
Miss Sarah T. Clements, of that citv, their family
consisting of Gertrude Hanson, Leila Thorpe Hanson,
Laura Hanson, Ina Marion Hanson, Pauline Hanson,
Gerald Hanson, Charles Stanley Hanson and
Madeleine Hanson. Mr. Hanson's residence is 1152
Dorchester street, Montreal.
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ROBERT MEIGHEN.
Mr. Robert Meighen, who for fourteen years has
been President of the Lake of the Woods Milling
Co., is one of Canada's best known captains of indus-
try, and his name is familiar to Canadians from one
end of the Dominion to the other. Mr. Meighen is
also well-known throughout the British Empire as an
ardent Imperialist, and as a devoted adherent of the
policy of Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Meighen, indeed,
advocated the policy of Imperial Preferential Trade
many years ago, and was one of the pioneers, whose
unceasing and confident advocacy has made it the
pressing question that it is to-day. Mr. Meighen was
born at Dungiven, near Londonderry, Ireland, and
shortly afterwards his father died. The family then
came to Canada, and settled at Perth, Ontario, where
the children were educated. In the course of time, the
boys established themselves in business in Perth, as
wholesale and retail general merchants, and the firm of
Arthur Meighen & Bros, soon became widely known
for probity and enterprise, and for many years has
been one of the most extensive mercantile firms doing
business in the old Bathurst district. In 1882, Mr.
Meighen removed to Montreal, where he became asso-
siated in business with Sir George Stephen, now Lord
Mount Stephen, whom he succeeded as President of
the New Brunswick Railway, which now forms part
of the Canadian Pacific Eastern Line. This position
Mr. Meighen still retains. He was interested for
some years in the Portage Milling Co., at Portage La
Prairie, and helped to found the Lake of the Woods
Milling Co., one of the most prosperous and extensive
milling concerns in the Empire, of which, as already
stated, he has been president for fourteen years. He
is a man of many and varied interests, to each of which
he gives the keenest and most conscientious attention.
Among other activities, he is director of three other
business institutions besides those already mentioned,
the Bank of Toronto, one of the strongest financial in-
stitutions in the Dominion ; the North-West Land Co.,
and the Dominion Transport Company. Mr. Meighen
is also an active member of the Montreal Board of
Trade, and the Montreal Corn Exchange Associa-
tion, and was a delegate to the Fifth Congress of
Chambers of Commerce of the Empire. At that Con-
gress he made a speech that attracted wide attention,
and that was afterwards published in pamphlet form
and widely read. Mr. Meighen is also author of an-
other pamphlet on the fiscal question, which he has
specially addressed to the farmers of Canada. Mr.
Meighen is a Presbyterian in religion, and a trustee of
St. Paul's Church. In politics he is a Conservative.
His house, 140 Drummond Street, is one of the most
stately homes in Montreal. His clubs are the Mount
Royal, St. James and the Canada. Like most of the
notably successful men of business on this continent,
to-day, Mr. Meighen is what it is customary to call
" the architect of his own fortune," in the sense that
his success depended upon his own prudence, ability
and perseverance. Mr. Meighen married the youngest
daughter of the late Wm. Stephen, Esq., formerly of
Dufftown, Scotland, and the sister of Lord Mount
Stephen. Mr. and Mrs. Meighen have three children,
a son, Major Frank Meighen, and two daughters, Mrs.
R. W. Reford, and Miss Meighen.
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