Chapter X: Part 10

=Hazen, Hon. Sir John Douglas, K.C.M.G., K.C., LL.D., O.C.= (St. John City and County). Descended from Edward Hazen, who moved from Northumberland, Eng., to Massachusetts in 1648, and more immediately from John Hazen, who, with his brother William, came from Haverhill, Mass., and settled at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1775. Son of the late James King Hazen, mother a daughter of the late Hon. John A. Beckwith. Maternal grandfather was Provincial Secretary of New Brunswick and member of the Legislative Council. Paternal grandfather was an officer in H.M. Army, and Sheriff of Sunbury County for over 25 years. Born at Oromocto, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, June 5, 1860. Educated at Collegiate School, Fredericton, and University, New Brunswick; degrees, B.A., B.C.L., LL.D., University New Brunswick. Married Sept. 22, 1884, Ada C., daughter of James Tibbits, of Fredericton. Five children: Douglas King, Katie Elizabeth, Frances Edith, James Murray (Lieutenant C.E.F., died of wounds in France) and Ada A. A barrister-at-law. Director of the Eastern Trust Co., Senator of the University, New Brunswick and ex-President Alumni Society thereof. Ex-President of the Barristers’ Society, New Brunswick. Was Alderman of Fredericton for three years and Mayor too. Removed to St. John, 1890. President of Horticultural Society. Returned to House of Commons, general election, 1891, for St. John city and county. In 1891, moved address in reply in House of Commons; an unsuccessful candidate 1896; elected to House of Assembly 1899-1903 and 1908 (Sunbury County). Chosen 1899 Leader of the Opposition. The Opposition Party under his leadership administered a crushing defeat to the Robinson Government at the general election, March, 1908, and at the close of the polls he found himself at the head of a contingent of 31 supporters, as against 12 adherents of the government. Upon the resignation of Premier Robinson and his colleagues, Mr. Hazen was summoned by His Honor the Lieut.-Governor to form a government, which he did, assuming the portfolio of Premier and Attorney-General. The Cabinet was sworn in, March 24, 1908, and all the members thereof re-elected by acclamation April 7. Retained office until Oct. 10, 1911, when he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Premier Borden’s Cabinet. Dr. Daniel, the M.P. elect for St. John City and County, retiring, Mr. Hazen was placed in nomination and elected by acclamation. Member of Inter-Provincial Conference, Ottawa, and of Maritime Provincial Conference (1910), attended coronation of King George and Queen Mary (1911) as representative of the Province of New Brunswick. Delegate to Washington on two occasions in connection with the Hague Award _re_ North Atlantic Fisheries and delegate to England with Premier Borden, _re_ Naval affairs (1912). In the latter part of 1917 he became Chairman of the Canadian Section of the International Fisheries Commission to settle all outstanding fisheries questions between Canada and the United States; appointed Chief Justice New Brunswick November, 1917. Created a K.C.M.G. for public services same year. Member of Union Club, St. John; Mount Royal Club, Montreal; Rideau Club, Ottawa; Royal Colonial Institute, London Eng., and of the following societies: St. George’s, Loyalist, New Brunswick, Historical, and Natural History, St. John, N.B. Recreation, golf and motoring. Member of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church, St. John, New Brunswick. Address, St. John, N.B.

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=Sinclair, Victor Albert, B.A., LL.B.=, born May 16, 1872, at Tilsonburg, Ont., son of Dr. Lachlin C. Sinclair and Roxilana Nan Norman, both Canadians. Dr. Sinclair contested North Norfolk on three occasions in the Conservative interests against the late Hon. John Charlton. Educated at the Public and High Schools of Tilsonburg, the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall; graduated B.A. in 1892 with first-class honors in Political Science and English, took degree of LL.B. with honors in 1894; called to the Bar at Osgoode Hall, in 1895, receiving medal. Commenced practice at Tilsonburg with W. A. Dowler, K.C., as Dowler & Sinclair, has practised alone for past eight years, entered Municipal Council of his native town in 1896, and served three years as councillor and two years as Mayor, was high school trustee from 1910 until 1919, member of Council, Board of Trade. President of Tilsonburg Conservative Club, President Tilsonburg Horticultural Society 1910-1919, Vice-President Bowling Club, Vice-President Tilsonburg Shoe Company, Limited. The subject of this sketch was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for South Oxford at the general elections of 1914 by a majority of four over Colonel T. R. Mayberry; on recount this majority was increased to five, and on appeal reduced to one. Mr. Sinclair is recognized as a valuable member of the Legislature, he was acting Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee during the session of 1916, he is a member of several fraternal societies, including the Masonic, of which he is now Worshipful Master, C.O.F., A.O.U.W., also O.C.H.C., of which he is Supreme Leader for Canada, and has made a special study of Municipal and Company law. He enjoys a large practice, and is the solicitor for several townships in the counties of Oxford, Elgin, and Norfolk. Married February 6, 1901, to Gertrude L., daughter of George Draper, of Listowel, and is father of two children: Mildred Roxilana, and Gertrude Helen. In religion the member for South Oxford is a Methodist. His chief recreation is bowling and horticulture.

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=Robertson, Norman= (Walkerton, Ont.), author of “The History of the County of Bruce,” and Treasurer of the County of Bruce, Walkerton, Ont., was born on June 27, 1845, in Belleville, Ontario. His father, Peter Robertson, was a merchant of Scottish birth and the son of a Presbyterian minister, at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. Mr. Robertson’s mother, Sarah Ross, was born in England, although of Highland descent, her grandfather being one of those who followed “Bonnie Prince Charlie” into England in 1745. Norman Robertson attended the Grammar School at Belleville, but left school when only eleven years of age, that he might accompany his father and assist him in his business when he came to the County of Bruce and settled at Kincardine in 1856. The disadvantage arising from leaving school at so early an age was in part overcome by private study and tuition. In 1863 he went to Montreal, taking a position in a wholesale dry goods warehouse, rising to the position of English buyer. In 1877 he returned to Kincardine and took over the business of his father, who retired. He was married at Montreal in 1871, to Lilla M. Warren, daughter of S. R. Warren, builder of church organs at Montreal, and afterwards at Toronto. His family consists of three sons and two daughters. In religion Mr. Robertson is a Presbyterian, and has been an active worker in Sunday School work for over fifty years. In politics he is a Conservative. The position of Treasurer of the County of Bruce became vacant in 1887, and Mr. Robertson was chosen from among twenty-five applicants. A desire to have put in book form and so preserved, the records of the settlement of the County of Bruce, induced the County Council in 1896 to offer a prize for a Historical Sketch of the County. The sketch prepared by Mr. Robertson carried off, jointly with another, the prize. This initial effort was followed in 1906 by a volume of 560 pages bearing the title “The History of the County of Bruce.” This work has been very favorably commented upon and classed as one of the best of the County Histories of the Province that have been published. Mr. Robertson was with the Victoria Rifles, of Montreal, when that regiment went to the front at the time of the Fenian Raids in 1866, and has received his military medal therefor.

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=Price, Samuel, B.C.L.= (Toronto, Ont.), Chairman, Workmen’s Compensation Board. Born at Caradoc Township, Middlesex County, Ont., February 16, 1863, son of Richard and Mary (Whiting) Price. Educated at local Public School, Strathroy and St. Thomas Collegiate Institutes; Trinity University (B.C.L., gold medal); Osgoode Hall (scholarship each year, gold medal, 1895). Taught school for some time; read law with McLean & Son, St. Thomas, and Magee, McKillop & Murphy, London; called to Ontario Bar, September, 1895; practised at St. Thomas; Secretary, Elgin Law Association. Royal Commissioner (Ontario) for settlement of Cobalt mining disputes, 1905; Mining Commissioner for Ontario, 1906-1912; Royal Commissioner for inquiry into alleged fraudulent action of Fort Frances Lumber Co., and Keewatin Lumber Co., 1909; Commissioner _re_ eight-hour day for miners in Ontario, 1912-1913; reported to Ontario Government on eight-hour law and drafted Bill (now in force); Royal Commissioner to investigate mining labor troubles on Vancouver Island, 1913; assisted in general revision of Mining Act of Ontario, 1908; drafted amendments to mining laws and other Ontario legislation, 1907-1913; refused Chairmanship of Ontario Railway and Municipal Board; engaged (on recommendation of late Chief Commissioner Mabee) in consolidation and revision of Railway Act, 1912-1913; recommended by late Chief Commissioner Mabee for appointment as a member of Railway Board of Canada; appointed to present position Aug., 1914; President West Elgin Liberal-Conservative Association, 1904-1905. Member Public Library Board. Author “Mining Commissioner’s Cases,” 1910; articles on Mining Law, “Canada Law Times” and Journal Canadian Mining Institute, 1910-1911. Societies: A.F. & A.M., K.P., C.O.C.F., C.O.F. Liberal Conservative; Anglican.

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=Jones, George Burpee= (Apohaqui, N.B.), son of Stephen Jones and Susan Eliza, his wife, both Canadians, was born January 9, 1866, at Belle Isle Bay, Kings County, N.B. Educated at Apohaqui Superior School. At twelve years of age Mr. Jones entered the employ of the late J. A. Sinnott, and after six years resigned and accepted the position of General Manager with Hugh McLean, of Salmon River, Queens County, in general business and lumber. Resigned that position in September, 1889, and commenced business in his present stand in Apohaqui and is senior member of the firm of Jones Brothers, general merchants and lumber manufacturers, of Apohaqui. Is president of the “St. John Daily Standard.” Has been a member of the School Board of Apohaqui Superior School for the past 25 years. First elected member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly in 1908 and re-elected at the general elections in 1912, and re-elected general elections in 1917. Is of Loyalist descent and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Married August 15, 1888, to Melissa J., daughter of William Fowler, and is the father of two children, Colby Herbert and Muriel B.

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=Izzard, Dennis Jabez=, son of James Izzard and Elizabeth Whetstone, was born in Norton, Hertfordshire, England. With his parents he came to Canada in 1861, and for a time worked as a boy at farming. He secured his education in the schools of those early days under the excellent teachers who have left their stamp on the men and women of to-day. Growing to manhood Mr. Izzard decided to follow contracting and building, in which he achieved success for many years. Many of the public buildings in Bruce County were erected under his guidance, and stand as a monument to his ability. He made Port Elgin his home shortly after coming to the County of Bruce, and he has ever been one of its leading men. He served as councillor in the village council for a number of years. In 1880-81 he served as reeve. Retiring, he was out of municipal life until 1890-91, when he again adorned the reeve’s chair. In 1909 the people again made him their choice, and he continuously represented them from that time until 1918. At the January meeting of the Bruce County Council in 1917, he received the marked honor of being elected warden of the county, by acclamation, he being the second man in the history of the county to have been so honored. He is kindly and courteous in disposition, and nowhere has it shown to better advantage than in his able handling of public bodies he has been connected with. His advice has always been received with the fullest confidence that he knows the matters being dealt with from a first hand knowledge. In January, 1918, he was chosen by the county council of Bruce as superintendent of the good roads of the county. In politics he is a Liberal, and his parents were English Methodists. He is fond of curling, fishing, shooting, in all of which he is skilful. He is a member of Port Elgin Lodge, No. 429, A.F. & A.M. In April, 1891, he married Mrs. Frilzinger, Waterloo County. Two children were born, Stewart Elmo, deceased, and Miss Pearl E., who resides at home.

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=Shutt, Frank Thomas= (Ottawa, Ont.), son of William D. and Charlotte Shutt. Born, London, England, September 15, 1859. Educated at London and the University of Toronto, from which latter institution he graduated in 1885 with honors in Natural Science; M.A., 1886; he also has had conferred on him D.Sc. and is regarded as one of the highest authorities on Agricultural Chemistry in America. Dominion Chemist and Assistant Director Experimental Farms. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of Chemical Society (Eng.), Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry (Eng.), and Fellow of the American Chemical Society, and also Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since 1887 he has been Chemist of the Dominion Experimental Farms. Dr. Shutt founded the “Cawthorne Medal” in Natural Science, Toronto University, and has been examiner in Chemistry there. President of Toronto University Graduates’ Club, Ottawa, 1894-5; President of Ottawa Field and Naturalists’ Club, Ottawa, 1895; President, Ottawa Schubert Club, 1896. President Chem. and Phys. Section Royal Society 1916-17. British Judge, World’s Fair, Chicago, 1893, and is the author of the reports and bulletins of the Dominion Chemists’ Experimental Farm and of many papers on original investigations in the Royal Society of Canada. The Doctor is a man of fine musical tastes and is especially interested in the organ. He finds recreation in pictorial photography.

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=Montgomery, Hugh John= (Wetaskiwin, Alta.), was born on the 31st of July, 1876, at Bedeque, P.E.I., son of James Montgomery and Kate McFarlane, both Canadians, born of Scotch parents. Educated at the Public School, Bedeque, P.E.I., and Charlottetown Business College. Went to Wetaskiwin in the Province of Alberta in 1898. Elected to the City Council as Alderman in 1905, and served four years and elected Mayor in 1910. First elected to the Provincial Legislature as Liberal candidate for the constituency of Wetaskiwin at a by-election on November 17, 1914, defeating his opponent by a majority of 501. Re-elected at the Provincial general elections of June 7, 1917, by a majority of 817. Married December 31, 1903, Adelaide, daughter of Clifford E. Vaughn, of Minneapolis, Minn., and is the father of two children: Kenneth Gordon, and Lawrence Vaughn. Mr. Montgomery is a successful general merchant. In religion he is a Presbyterian.

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=MacDonald, Selkirk M.=, Portage la Prairie, Man. A thorough westerner is Selkirk M. MacDonald, Deputy Clerk Crown and Pleas, C.J.D.; Surrogate Court Clerk, C.J.D., and County Court Clerk, since November 1, 1903. Mr. MacDonald, who succeeded his father, John MacDonald, in the above offices, was born in Portage la Prairie on February 1, 1875. His mother was Isabella MacKay, a daughter of Selkirk Douglas MacKay, who had the distinction of being the first white child born in Manitoba, his parents having come to Canada with the Lord Selkirk settlers. Mr. MacDonald is not only a westerner by birth and by all his traditions, he was educated in Portage la Prairie and has always taken a prominent part in the outdoor sports which are such a feature of Western Canadian life. In his youth he played hockey and lacrosse with the Victorias of Winnipeg, and the Portage la Prairie clubs and was also a member of the famous lacrosse club of Victoria, B.C. In bicycling, football, baseball, running, jumping he was always prominent, and he finds his greatest present recreations in hunting, curling, motoring and trap-shooting. Mr. MacDonald is not married, is a Presbyterian in religion, a prominent member of the Masonic Society, and a member of the Portage Club, and of the Portage Country Club.

=Sainte-Pierre, F.=, Managing Director and Secretary-Treasurer of Credit Canada, Limitée, the largest French-Canadian Bond houses in Canada. Mr. Sainte-Pierre was born at Chicoutimi on the 13th December, 1885, a son of F. Sainte-Pierre, general merchant, and Josephine Saint-Pierre. He was educated at Chicoutimi Seminary and the Commercial Academy of Quebec, graduating at Quebec in 1902. As a student, Mr. Sainte-Pierre was a frequent contributor to the Society Magazine. He was married on 7th October, 1913, to Miss Noemi Decary, daughter of the late A. C. Decary, N.P., Registrar. He has two children, Helene and Jean Sainte-Pierre. He is a member of the Maccabees and a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is a Liberal in politics, in which he takes a keen interest, his name having been suggested as a candidate for parliamentary honors on more than one occasion. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is an enthusiastic motorist and also keenly interested in motor boating and fishing. Having been a dealer in a very large way in municipal securities, Mr. Sainte-Pierre has for the past few years given a great deal of attention to the improvement of municipal borrowing. He favors the appointment of a Government Expert Officer to safeguard and study the best methods of borrowing money, realizing that many municipalities have not the expert financial knowledge that enables them to decide on the most propitious times to float loans, he believes that the suggested reforms would be greatly in the interest, not only of the municipalities, but of the financial houses that deal in these securities. Mr. Sainte-Pierre, as the executive head of Credit Canada, Limitée, has been very active in the financing of large school municipalities and cities. His firm has handled some of the largest issues floated in the Province of Quebec in recent years. He has made various suggestions for the improvement of School municipalities in the province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is also well known as an expert accountant, and systematizer. He is a member of several fraternal societies and it is well recognized that the prominent position obtained by Credit Canada, Limitée, is due to the energy and financial skill of Mr. Sainte-Pierre.

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=Mackenzie, Norman, K.C.=, one of the leading barristers of the Canadian West, is head of the firm of Mackenzie, Thom, McMorran, McDonald, Bastedo and Jackson, Regina, Saskatchewan. He was born at Sarnia, Ont., January 27, 1869, the son of John Alexander and Helen Mackenzie. He was educated at private schools. Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He read law in the offices of Morphy, Miller, Levesconte & Smythe, Toronto, from 1888 to 1891, and in latter year was called to the Ontario Bar. He at once went to Regina, then the capital of the North-West Territories, was there called to the Territorial Bar and commenced practice. On the division of the North-West Territories into Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, he became a solicitor entitled to practice in both Provinces by virtue of the Act. Was created K.C. in 1907, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of the North-West Territories in 1898, and continued to represent the North-West Territories until 1905, and since then the Province of Saskatchewan, retiring in 1919 as a Bencher ex-officio under the Act, during which period he was at different times President of the Society, served as Public Administrator from 1898 to 1910; 1916 to 1918 he was Vice-President for Saskatchewan of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Mackenzie finds his chief recreation in art and in his dogs. He is a member of many social organizations including the Assiniboia Club, Regina, Wascana Country Club, Regina Golf Club, Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. He is a Presbyterian and a Liberal in politics. On May 29, 1909, he married Clara Erma, daughter of Henry McMorran of Port Huron, Michigan and resides at 2336 Victoria Ave., Regina.

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=Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, December 20, 1850, and received a thorough scholastic training in his native country. He came to Canada in boyhood, and for a short time looked to farming as an occupation and became also interested in educational matters. The bent of his mind being in the direction of the law, he pursued the studies thereof, and in 1876 was sworn in as a solicitor, and in 1880 he was called to the Bar, and practised at Guelph for a few years, where he met with big success. Upon receiving the appointment (in 1885) as Deputy Attorney-General and Clerk of the Executive Council, he came to Toronto, and held the position for four years. He then resumed the practice of his profession and was subsequently appointed for three years Inspector of Registry Offices, which office, by reason of his increasing practice he was compelled to resign in 1894. He has frequently acted as Crown Counsel at the Provincial Assizes, being retained in several important murder trials, and in that capacity has won distinction and success, by reason of the fact that he has perhaps conducted more criminal cases than any man in Canada. To cite a complete or anything like a complete list of the cases which he has been retained for, would read like a city directory. He was a gentleman of pleasing address, yet withal a forceful orator, and had the faculty of being in a position through his remarkable tenacity to hold the jury and convince them to his way of thinking. He had a ready mental grasp, quick and clear conceptions, and was ever ready to see a point and turn it to the advantage of his client. In 1887 was appointed a Commissioner to enquire into the working of municipal institutions, and was president of the Guelph Caledonian Society, and secretary of the Reform Association for a number of years. He was appointed as Q.C. by the Ontario Government in 1890. Mr. Johnston was senior partner of the well-known law firm of Johnston, McKay, Dodds & Grant. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Bank of Canada, Chairman of the Standard Reliance Mortgage Corporation, Director on several Boards, and President of the Chartered Trust Co. He was for some years a Bencher of the Law Society. Mr. Johnston passed away January 29th, 1919.

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=Saint Cyr, Joseph Fortunat= (Montreal), one of the well-known lawyers of that city, was born at Saint Jean, Quebec, on December 6, 1875, the son of Olivier Saint Cyr, clerk, and Rose de Lima Gosseline, his wife. He was educated at the College de Montreal and graduated in 1897 with the degree of B.A. Studied law at Laval University, where he obtained the degree of LL.L. Admitted to the Bar in 1900. He at once commenced practice as an advocate in St. John’s, P.Q., in which his talents speedily brought him to the fore. He is the author of several legal treatises, including “La Loi des Licenses de Quebec”; “La Loi pour Tous,” and a Digest of Montreal Law Reports. In 1909 he was appointed magistrate for the district of Beauharnois and Iberville, and in 1917 became Judge of the Sessions of the Peace for the District of Montreal. In 1918 he resigned the latter office to take the very important post of Chairman of the Montreal Tramways Commission. He is a Liberal in politics, a Roman Catholic in religion, and a member of the Knights of Columbus. In April, 1910, he married Cecile, daughter of L. G. Dubois and has one daughter, Lisette.

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=Boyd, Leslie Hale, B.A., B.C.L., K.C.= (Fort William, Ont.), Chairman of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, was born in Montreal, July 31, 1873, the son of Andrew and Georgiana Louisa (Hale) Boyd. He was educated at Montreal High School and McGill University, graduating B.A. in 1894, and B.C.L., 1897. He commenced the practice of law in his native city and also took a prominent part in politics and municipal affairs. He was alderman for St. George Ward from 1910 to 1917, inclusive, and also Life Governor of the Homeopathic Hospital, School Trustee, St. Henri; and a member of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, Montreal. On one occasion he unsuccessfully contested the St. Lawrence division for the Quebec Legislature as a Conservative candidate. His appointment by the Dominion Government to the important post of Chairman of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, for which his abilities and experience well qualified him, necessitated his removal to Fort William. His recreations are golf, curling and fishing, and he is a past president of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. His clubs are the Engineers and Canada, Montreal; the Kaministiquia, Thunder Bay Golf and Canadian, Fort William. Mr. Boyd is a Presbyterian and unmarried.

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=Allan, John=, Member for the riding of West Hamilton in the Ontario Legislature, was born at Guelph, Ont., on May 22, 1856, the son of James and Agnes (Rodgers) Allan. His boyhood was spent in the city of which he is now an elected representative, and he was educated in the public schools there. On leaving school in 1871 he qualified himself for mechanical pursuits with William Hancock and John Taylor of Hamilton, remaining with them for three years. From 1874 to 1879 he followed his trade in the Western States and in the latter year removed to New York City. In 1885 he became a builder on his own account in the American metropolis and continued there for the next twenty-one years. He prospered to an extent that in 1906, at the age of fifty, he was able to retire from business and return to the city where he had spent his youth and for which he had always cherished a deep affection. His friends persuaded him to enter municipal politics in 1908 and he has proven a most useful public servant. He was Alderman, 1908-9; Controller, 1910-12; Chairman of the Parks Board, 1911; Mayor for the years 1913 and 1914. His regime was marked by businesslike methods and he was popular with all classes of the community. In 1914 on the retirement of Sir John Hendrie, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, who had long represented the riding of West Hamilton in the Ontario Legislature, Mr. Allan was nominated by the Conservative party and elected. As a legislator his services as a member of the standing committees of the House are especially valued. In religion he is a Presbyterian and is a member of the following organizations: Commercial Club, A.F. & A.M., and Knights of Pythias. In 1881 he married Catherine, daughter of Conrad Euler.

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=Stewart, Charles=, first saw the light of day in the pioneer homestead, lot 13, concession 11, Township of Ashfield, County of Huron. His father was David Stewart, of Caithness, Scotland, and his mother Mary McLean, of Ross-shire, Scotland. In 1842 this estimable Scotch couple set sail for Canada, and that same year began their pioneer life on the homestead now occupied by the subject of this sketch. To their son they have imparted their sterling qualities of character. Charles Stewart received his education in the public schools of his native county, but his heart was ever in his chosen occupation of farming and he has become one of the sterling sons of the soil, proud that he knows how to farm and do it well. He is unmarried. Studious by nature, his hobby has ever been municipal affairs, and for nine years he was a member of the municipal council. Four of these, 1914-15-16-17, he occupied the honored position of reeve, retiring in 1918. He was a member of Huron’s County Council, and there as in his own council he was ever found leading in movements for forwarding the country’s interests. He is an advocate of Hydro-Electric and Hydro Radials, feeling that the peculiar geographical situation of the township in which he lives can eventually be served by these two important public utilities. He is a good debater, states his case with Scotch deliberateness, and sticks to his point in the face of all opposition, until convinced that there might be some better way than the one he advocates. Kindly and generous by disposition, he has friends by the score, and has been attested by his continuous representation in the council for so many years. He is an ardent admirer of Highland games and fond of good driving horses, though of late the automobile has superseded his once famous pacer. He is perhaps one of the most aggressive farmers in his community, and his name has from time to time been mentioned for parliamentary honors, but he has refused to be lured into the wider field of political activity. If he should ever run and be elected, he will be a distinct asset to the farmers of Canada, because he knows what they want. He is a member of Lucknow Lodge, No. 184, A.F. & A.M. In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian.

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=Macaulay, Thomas Bassett, F.I.A., F.S.A., F.S.S.=, of Montreal, occupies a high position in Canadian finance, and is besides an insurance expert of international fame. He was born at Hamilton, Ont., on June 6, 1860, the son of Robertson and Barbara Maria (Reid) Macaulay, and educated at Hamilton and Montreal. He entered the service of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada at Montreal in 1877 and by 1880, when but twenty years of age, he had so qualified himself in the science of insurance that he was made Actuary. In 1891 he was appointed Secretary of the Company, and in 1898 was elected a Director. In 1906 he became Managing Director of the Sun Life and in 1915 President, succeeding his late father. Under his direction the company has enjoyed an immense expansion on sound and conservative lines, and its President is recognized in financial circles the world over as an expert in insurance and master of business organization. The head offices are on Dominion Square, Montreal, but it has many branches in Canada and other parts of the world. Mr. Macaulay is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain, a Charter Member of the Actuarial Society of America, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected Vice-President to represent the Actuaries of the United States and Canada at the International Congress of Actuaries held at Paris in 1900, and again at the Congress held in Berlin, Germany, 1906. He is Past President of the Life Insurance Officers’ Association of Canada. His financial interests are by no means confined to insurance however. He is a director of The National Trust Company of Toronto, a Director of the Dominion Glass Company, a Director of the Illinois Traction Company, a Director of the Western Railways and Light Company, and a Director of the Barcelona Railway, Light and Power Co. Mr. Macaulay has taken a great interest in the development of closer relations between Canada and other British possessions in North America, and is President of the Canadian and West Indian League. The Navy League of Canada, of which Mr. Macaulay is Honorary President, has his active support. His chief recreation is farming, and his hobby, the breeding of fine stock. In religion he is a Congregationalist and has been twice married, firstly in 1881 to Henrietta (deceased daughter of O. T. Bragg, New Orleans); secondly in 1912 to Margaret (deceased), daughter of Rev. William Allen, London, England. He has two sons and three daughters, and resides on Westmount Boulevard, Westmount, Quebec.

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=Clark, Lt.-Col. Hugh=, born May 6, 1861, at Kincardine Township. A son of Donald Clark and Mary MacDougall, both in Argyllshire, Scotland; father was a farmer and a school teacher. Mother died in 1909, father lived to be over 90 years of age. Educated at the public school and high school Kincardine, from which latter institution he graduated in 1887, and taught school for three years, 1887 to 1889. In 1890 was editor of the “Walkerton Herald,” and in the same year purchased the “Kincardine Review,” which he has conducted ever since, with the exception of the years 1897 and 1898, when he was managing editor of the “Ottawa Citizen.” A member of the Legislative Press Gallery in Toronto, 1900. Entered the Militia of Canada in 1892 with a Lieutenant’s commission and commanded the 32nd Bruce Regiment as Lt.-Col. from 1906 to 1911. In 1902 Lt.-Col. Clark was nominated by the Conservative party as candidate for the Legislative Assembly for Centre Bruce, and was elected with a majority of 5; unseated on petition he was re-elected in February, 1903 by a majority of 44, and re-elected in 1905 by a majority of 317 and again in 1908 by a majority of 356. In 1911 Lt.-Col. Clark resigned his seat in the Legislature to contest North Bruce for the Federal Parliament and was elected by a majority of 82. Re-elected at the general election to the House of Commons in 1917 by a largely increased majority, and became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, which he held until November, 1918, when he took over the duty of Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers Civil Re-establishment. Married September 24, 1894, to Catherine MacKay, daughter of Dr. H. M. Ross of Richard’s Landing, Ont., and has one son, Hugh Stuart Clark. Has a fine reputation as a journalist and is regarded as one of the brightest paragraphists in the country; he is a particularly effective platform speaker and has a clear and convincing style. He is exceedingly popular with all classes in the House and is recognized as being straightforward in all his election methods and business dealings. He accompanied Sir Robert L. Borden in the campaign of 1908 through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and toured the Western Provinces with the Premier in 1911. Lt.-Col. Clark is recognized as an authority on everything affecting the Militia of Canada and has lectured on Imperial defence. He is a Presbyterian in religion and belongs to the following orders: A.F. & A.M.; L.O.L.; I.O.O.F.; C.O.F. His principal recreations are golfing and bowling. He is a member of the Kincardine Club, Albany Club, Toronto, Rideau and Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Ottawa.

=Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, Lieut.-Col., D.S.O.= (Uxbridge, Ont.), son of George Sharpe, of Suffolk, England, and Mary Ann Simpson, of County Tyrone, Ireland, born March 13, 1873, at Zephyr, Township of Scott, County of Ontario. Educated at Uxbridge Public and High Schools, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall; graduated in 1895, degrees B.A. and LL.B. Married, August 26, 1903, to Mabel E., daughter of H. A. Crosby and granddaughter of Joseph Gould, ex-M.P. for North Ontario. Town Solicitor for Uxbridge for ten years. He lived and practised his profession in Town of Uxbridge, near the place of his birth, after being called to the bar and achieved a large measure of success. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe always took a great interest in the militia, and was formerly a member of the 34th Regiment, in which he attained the rank of Major. On the outbreak of the war he organized and recruited the 116th Ontario County Battalion and took it to France. He held a fine record for overseas service, having won the D.S.O. and having been mentioned in the despatches. It is said of Col. Sharpe that he was one of the most popular O.C.’s sent from Canada, and he never missed an opportunity of looking after the interests of his men. He returned to Canada in the end of May, 1918, after having seen much hard service, his health impaired and succumbed in a few weeks to a nervous disorder. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1898, when he defeated George D. Grant by 200 majority; re-elected in 1911, when he defeated Major H. M. Mowat, K.C., nephew of the late Sir Oliver Mowat, by 588; was appointed one of the Ontario Whips by Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden, prior to the election of 1911, and was returned by a large majority at the general elections in December, 1917, during his absence at the front. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe took an active and prominent part in the councils of the Conservative Party after he became a member of the House, and was recognized as a good debater, with a full knowledge of National affairs. He was a member of the Albany Club, Toronto, and the Rideau Club, Ottawa; also a member of the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Foresters, Sons of England, and Independent Order of Oddfellows. He held the Ontario championship in tennis for two years and the undergraduate championship for one year. In religion Lieut.-Col. Sharpe was a member of the Methodist Church at Uxbridge.

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=Macaulay, John= (Wiarton, Ontario), Manager of the Dominion Fish Co., head office, Toronto, was born April 13, 1865, at Southampton, Ont. He is a son of Donald MacAulay, of Stornoway, Scotland, and Annie MacLeod, of the same place. The father was a fisherman and sailor on the great lakes. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of his native town. Early he began to follow in the footsteps of his father, and soon became one of the best fishermen on the lakes. He had splendid executive ability, and this with his tenacity of purpose soon marked him as a leader in the fishing business. The Dominion Fish Co. recognized his business acumen and made him manager of their extensive business with headquarters at Wiarton. Here he is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the place. He is a member of Cedar Lodge, No. 369, A.F. & A.M., Offanta Preceptory, Owen Sound, and a Shriner of Rameses Temple, Toronto. His favorite pastimes are curling and bowling. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Liberal. He was the Liberal standard bearer in the Federal Riding of North Bruce in 1917. He married Miss Margaret McLeod, of Ripley, Ont. They had a family of three sons and two daughters, Graham, Gordon, Irvine, May, and Marie (the first three named are deceased, the two latter living).

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=Lighthall, William Douw, K.C., M.A., B.C.L., F.R.S.C., F.R.S.I.= (Montreal, P.Q.), one of the most widely known of Canadian publicists, was born at Hamilton, Ont., Dec. 27, 1857, the son of William Francis Lighthall, Dean of the Notarial Profession in Montreal, and Margaret Lighthall. His scholastic career was brilliant; he was gold medallist of Montreal High School, and Shakespeare Gold Medallist of McGill University. He was called to the Bar in 1881, and has almost ever since been a prominent figure in both the literary and public life of Canada, due to the fact that he is a man very fertile in ideas. He has an international reputation as a municipal reformer, which began with his career as Mayor of Westmount, from 1900 to 1903. In 1901, in conjunction with the late Oliver A. Howland, Mayor of Toronto, he founded the Union of Canadian Municipalities, which has effected a great work of municipal improvement in Canada. He was Chairman of the School Commission in his city for 1908-9, and is a member of the Royal Metropolitan Parks Commission, for the planning of a Greater Montreal. Mr. Lighthall’s literary and scientific interests are comprehensive. He was Representative Fellow in Arts of McGill University, 1911-3, and he originated the Society of Canadian Literature, and the Chateau de Ramezay Historical Museum. As an author his works include: “Thoughts, Moods and Ideals” (verse), published in 1887; “The Young Seigneur, or Nation Making” (a romance), 1888; “Montreal After 250 Years,” 1892; “The False Chevalier” (a romance), 1898; “The Glorious Enterprise,” 1902; “Canada, A Modern Nation,” 1904; “The Master of Life,” 1910; as well as many Ethical, Historical and Literary Pamphlets. He also devised and edited “Songs of the Great Dominion,” the most important existing anthology of Canadian verse, up to its date of publication, 1891; and also selected and edited the volume, “Canadian Poets,” issued in connection with the Canterbury Poets series, published in London, Eng., in the early nineties. Mr. Lighthall has also been actively interested in military affairs. He served with the College Company, Prince of Wales Regiment, Montreal, 1877-8; in the Victoria Rifles, 1881-3, and is a member of the Reserve of that battalion. He originated the idea of the Great War Veterans’ Association and, in 1915, was a member of the Committee of Friends of the Canadian Association of Returned Soldiers. He was an ardent advocate of conscription in the Great War and when the Government decided to adopt this policy, took the platform in support of it. He is a member of many literary, social and scientific societies, including the Royal Society of Canada (President, 1910), the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain, the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (corresponding member), the Antiquarian Society of Montreal (of which he is President), and the following clubs in his home city: Canada, Arts, Montreal, Canadian and University. His recreations include the collection of old pictures and camping. He married Cybel, daughter of John Wilkes, and has one son, Lieut, W. W. S. Lighthall, of the Royal Flying Corps, and 3rd Dorsets, who during the late war saw service in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Macedonia, and Palestine. Mr. Lighthall has a residence, “Chateau-clair,” in Westmount, Que., and a summer home, “Highbury,” at Lac Tremblant, Que.

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=Ellis, James Albert= (Ottawa), son of James and Margaret (Hall) Ellis, and was born at Accrington, Lancashire, England, June 2, 1864, where he also received his education. He came to Canada in 1885, and has resided in Ottawa ever since. He was the leader in the establishment of the Ottawa Municipal Electric Plant in 1905; Public School Trustee from 1898 to 1900; Alderman during the years 1901-1903, 1914; Controller, 1915; Mayor, 1904-1906, 1913; City Treasurer, 1907-1912; member of Local Legislature, 1911-1914. He was appointed Division Court Clerk in 1916 and a member of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board, October, 1918. Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of the Housing Scheme of the Province of Ontario as Director. Mr. Ellis has been for several years Chairman of the Ottawa Hydro-Electric Commission. He was President Ottawa Horticultural Society, 1911-1912; President Ontario Municipal Association, 1906-1907. He was many years Secretary of the Ottawa Conservative Association, and afterwards its President. Mr. Ellis married Catherine Fishwick, daughter of James Fishwick, Accrington, Lancashire, England, in September, 1884, and has one son and one daughter. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion. His address is 131 Stanley Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Roche, Hon. Wm. James, M.D., P.C., LL.D.=, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission for Canada, is a native of Clandeboye, Middlesex County, Ontario, and was born November 30, 1859. He was educated at the public schools of Lucan, Ont., at London Collegiate Institute, Trinity Medical School, Toronto, where he studied for three years, completing his course at the Western University, London, from which he was the first graduate in medicine, and where he also took first class honors. The hon. degree of LL.D. was conferred in 1911. This was in 1883, and he immediately went to Minnedosa, Manitoba, and engaged in the practice of his profession. From 1885 to 1901 he was Territorial Representative for his district on the Manitoba Medical Council, and was very popular as a physician among the various nationalities that constituted the early population of the prairie province. He first entered politics in 1892 when he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature in the Conservative interest. In the Federal Elections of 1896 he was the nominee of his party for the riding of Marquette and was elected after a stiff contest. His constituents showed their confidence in him by returning him to the House of Commons at the general elections of 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1911. When the recently chosen Parliament met in 1901 the Conservative caucus chose him as Whip for the West, a position he held until 1910 when he was elected chief assistant Whip for the Conservative party in the Commons. On the formation of the first Borden cabinet in 1911 he was appointed to the portfolio of Secretary of State and was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council on October 10 of that year, and was re-elected by acclamation. On October 27 he was transferred to the portfolio of Minister of the Interior and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in succession to Hon. Robert Rogers, who at that time became Minister of Public Works. This post he continued to fill until the autumn of 1917 when on the formation of Union Government he accepted the position of Chairman of the Civil Service Commission of Canada and retired from active politics. In 1916 Western University, London, his Alma Mater, honored him by making him Chancellor of the institution. Dr. Roche is very prominent in the Independent Order of Oddfellows, of which he was Grand Master for Manitoba in 1893. In connection with the same Order he was a Grand Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Chattanooga, Penn., in 1894, and at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1895. In 1883 he married Miss Annie E. Cook of Toronto. Though long resident in Minnedosa he now by virtue of his public duties makes his home in Ottawa.

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=McInnes, William, B.A., F.R.S.C., F.G.S.A.=, Directing Geologist, Geological Survey, 37 years ago became a member of the Dominion Civil Service. He has advanced step by step from one grade to another, and to-day occupies the responsible position of Directing Geologist, to which he was appointed in 1915. He has explored geologically Northern New Brunswick, Eastern Quebec, Western and Northern Ontario, Northern Saskatchewan and portions of the North-West Territories extending to Hudson Bay, and he explored and mapped Churchill and Winisk rivers and much of the North Country lying between the Canadian Pacific Railway and Hudson Bay. Reports of these explorations are contained in the annual reports of the Geological Survey of Canada and in separate memoirs. Mr. William McInnes is the son of John and Rachael Jane McInnes, and was born at Frederiction, New Brunswick, January 1, 1858. He was educated at the Collegiate School, Frederiction, and the University of New Brunswick, graduating in 1879. The following clubs claim Mr. McInnes as a member: the Rideau, Royal Golf and Gatineau Fish and Game. He, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Geological Society of America and Canadian Mining Institute. His religion is Presbyterian and his principal recreation is golf. He resides at the Victoria Chambers, 138 to 140 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Trahan, Arthur, B.S., K.C.= (Nicolet, Que.), born on May 26, 1877, at Nicolet, P.Q., son of Narcisse Trahan and Rebecca Rousseau, both Canadians. Educated at the Nicolet Seminary (B.S.). Married, Sept., 1902, to Josephine R. Dufresne, daughter of H. R. Dufresne, N.P., of Nicolet. He is the father of six children: Marie Therese, Madeleine, Paul Arthur, Bernard, Jacques and Marcel. Mr. Trahan is an attorney-at-law, barrister, solicitor, etc. Was a political candidate for the first time at by-election held June 2, 1913, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. C. R. Devlin elected for two seats, and was elected by 870 majority over D. H. Rheault, N.P. Re-elected in 1916 by acclamation. In November, 1917, resigned seat as member of Legislative Assembly to become a Federal candidate. Elected by acclamation to the House of Commons. Secretary of the Commission charged with the revision, consolidation and modification of the Municipal Code of the Province of Quebec (1910-12). In 1912 was appointed a K.C., and has been alderman of the town of Nicolet from 1911 to 1919. Moved the address in reply to the speech from the throne at the session of 1915 in the Quebec Legislative Assembly. Is a Roman Catholic in religion, and a Liberal in politics.

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=Campbell, Colin=, Montreal and St. Hilaire, Que., is one of the most widely known horsemen of the Dominion and a very prominent figure in the social and business life of his province. He is a son of Major Campbell, C.B., of Inverawe, Scotland, an officer of Her Majesty’s 7th Hussars and a member of the same family as the famous Col. Duncan Campbell, of Inverawe, who was on the staff of General Lord Howe at Ticonderoga, and whose death in that battle, and the accompanying psychical phenomena, form the theme of one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most thrilling ballads. Another relative was Col. de Salaberry, who commanded the French-Canadians in their heroic resistance at the Battle of Chateauguay in the war of 1812. The mother of the subject of this sketch was, prior to her marriage, Miss Duchesnay of Quebec, and he was born at St. Hilaire, on May 28, 1860. He was educated at Lennoxville Academy and later engaged in business as a merchant with great financial success. At the outbreak of the great war he organized and commanded the Mounted Section of the 1st Regiment of Reserve Militia, in which he holds the rank of Captain. Strong advocate of and keen worker for the “Daylight Saving” measure, which was passed in 1918. All legitimate sports have from youth claimed his enthusiastic support and he is noted not only as a breeder of horses, but as a skilled equestrian. As a steeplechase rider of his own horses, he won the Montreal Hunt Cup on four occasions and the Allan Cup on three. As an expert on the subject of horses he is widely known and has acted as Judge at the Olympia Horse Show, New York, as well as at similar events in Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. He is a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and of many social organizations in that city, including the Mount Royal, St. James, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream, Montreal Jockey, Canada, and Canadian Clubs, as well as of St. Andrew’s Society. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion. On April 23, 1888, married Mabel G., daughter of the late Sir Hugh Allan, K.C.B., of Montreal, by whom he has had three children, Enid, Phoebie and Archie (deceased).

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=Coats, Robert Hamilton=, Dominion Statistician and Controller of the Census, is one of the live wires in the employ of the Dominion Government. At college, in journalism, as an author and a writer on economic subjects, and as a Civil Service employee, he has distinguished himself and proved his worth. He captured the Bankers’ Scholarship in Economics and the Wyld Prize in English at the Toronto University; and from the time of his graduation in 1896, taking the degree of B.A. in Classics, to the present, he has given tangible evidence of his literary and constructive ability. Having served on the staff of the “Toronto World” and the Toronto “Globe” from 1898 to 1901, in January, 1902, he became Associate Editor of the “Labor Gazette,” the journal of the Department of Labor, afterwards editor, and continued in that capacity until 1914. On the death of Mr. Archibald Blue, in 1915, he succeeded that gentleman as Census Commissioner. Within a brief period afterwards, largely as a development of Mr. Coats’ constructive work, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics was established by Act of Parliament, and its value to the State, under Mr. Coats’ direction, is duly recognized. Robert Hamilton Coats is the son of Robert Coats, merchant, and Mary Park. He was born in Clinton, Ontario, July 25, 1874, and was educated at the Toronto University (B.A., 1896). He is a contributor to the “Journal of Economics” and other economic reviews; joint author with R. E. Gosnell of “The Life of Sir James Douglas” (Makers of Canada Series), 1908; author of “The Labor Movement in Canada,” and of “Special Reports on Prices in Canada, 1890-1909-10-11-12 and 13.” In 1912 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission of Official Statistics of Canada, and in 1914 a member of the Cost of Living Commission. Mr. Coats is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of England, of the American Statistical Association, of the American Economic Association, and of the Canadian Political Science Association. In June, 1905, Mr. Coats married Marie Halboister, of Paris, France. For recreation he favors canoeing and ski-ing. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and resides at 176 Manor Avenue, Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa.

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=Marnoch, George Robert=, President Board of Trade, Lethbridge, Alberta. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, February 19, 1873, son of George R. and Barbara Marnoch. Educated at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. Engaged in the commercial side of mechanical engineering, Scotland, and in Ceylon, also, in connection with the growing and export of tea, rubber and tropical products, and in the supplying of the building and engineering requirements of tea and rubber estates, as well as the supplying of fertilizers for these crops, 1896-1910; came to Canada, 1910; President (honorary office) Lethbridge Board of Trade, 1914; re-elected 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919; Member of Joint Committee of Commerce and Agriculture (The Committee of 25 business men and 25 leading farmers) of Western Canada; Vice-President, Western Canada Irrigation Association; vice-chairman (honorary office) Victory Loan Southern Alberta, 1917, 1918. Married Harriet Lund Macdonald (deceased), daughter of Alexander Macdonald, October 10, 1904; has one daughter. Club: Chinook. Independent in politics. Residence, Sherlock Building, Lethbridge, Alberta.