Chapter XIX: Part 19

=Mackay, Hon. Col. Alexander Howard=, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is one of Canada’s most prominent educationists. Born of Scotch-Canadian parents, John Mackay and Barbara Maclean, at North Mount Dalhousie, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, on May 19, 1848, Colonel Mackay early demonstrated his educational ability. He began his education in the public schools, then went to Pictou Academy, to Normal College, and to Dalhousie University, from which he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1873. He received his degree of B.Sc. at Halifax University in 1880; his LL.D. from Halifax in 1892, and from St. Francis Xavier University in 1905. In 1882 he married Maude Augusta, daughter of Dr. George Moir Johnstone of Pictou, N.S., and has two children, George Moir Johnstone and Barbara Lois, born in 1883 and in 1886 respectively. Colonel Mackay is a life member of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, England; a member of the Author’s Club, London, England, and of the Halifax Club, Nova Scotia. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Biological and Geographic Boards of Canada. In religion he is a Presbyterian, of the United Church of Canada, and in politics he is non-partisan, but a strong Imperialist. He was made an honorary colonel in 1912 and was a member of the Dominion Cadet Committee which had the honor of introducing the present military training system into the schools of Canada in 1908. Colonel Mackay is now superintendent of education for the province of Nova Scotia. He began as a teacher in the public schools of Pictou and then became lecturer in biology at the medical college of Dalhousie University, and his subsequent career is a long list of educational honors. He is Past President of the Educational Association of Nova Scotia, of Dominion Educational Association, of Summer School of Science for Atlantic Provinces, of Nova Scotia Institute of Science, of Section IV. of the Royal Society of Canada; President of Victoria School of Art and Design; Vice-President of Simplified Spelling Board; member of the Geographic Board of Canada; of the Biological Board of Canada, Governor of Dalhousie University, of Halifax Ladies’ College; Senator of Presbyterian College; sometime editor of “Dalhousie Gazette,” “Acadia Scientist,” “Educational Review”; editor of “Journal of Education,” etc., represented the province of Nova Scotia at the official Imperial educational conferences of the Education departments of the Empire in 1907 and 1911. Colonel Mackay has written extensively on educational subjects for a number of important magazines and periodicals.

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=Whalen, George Frederick= (Vancouver, B.C.), one of the leading figures in the pulp and paper industry of Canada, was born at Fort William, Ont., November 13, 1880, the son of Joseph and Alice Whalen. He was educated in the Separate School and High School of his native city, and commenced his business career in 1899 as a clerk in the Ontario Bank at the adjacent town of Port Arthur. After a year’s experience he abandoned banking for the lumber business, serving as a clerk in the camps of far-western Ontario from 1900 to 1902, and subsequently a Contractor for taking out timber from 1902 to 1909. Incidentally he acquired a great deal of knowledge of the pulp industry, which at that time was beginning to assume large proportions in Canada, and in 1909 he was appointed Manager in charge of construction and operation of the Sulphite Mill at Mill Creek, British Columbia. In that position he remained until 1917 when he became Vice-President and General Manager of the Whalen Pulp & Paper Mills, Ltd., which has its head offices in the Merchants Bank Building at Vancouver, B.C., and engages extensively in pulp and lumber manufacture on the Pacific Coast. The importance of this corporation, which was organized by the subject of this sketch, may be gauged from the figures of its capitalization: common stock $8,000,000; preferred stock (cumulative from January 1, 1918) $2,102,500; Fifteen year Six per cent. Bonds $2,000,000; Fifteen year Seven per cent. Debenture Stock, $1,500,000. Though young in years Mr. Whalen is recognized throughout Canada and the United States as one of the most able and progressive figures in an industry that enters very largely into the life of every community. His recreations are golf, fishing, motoring and hunting, and he is a member of the Vancouver, Shaughnessy Golf, and Burnaby Golf Clubs. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and on June 1, 1904, married Mary Geraldine, daughter of Patrick D. Doran, Kingston, Ont. He has three sons and one daughter, and resides at 1251 King Edward Ave., Vancouver, B.C.

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=Cousineau, Joseph Philemon, B.A., K.C., LL.D.=, of the firm of Cousineau and Lacasse, advocates, 90 St. James Street, Montreal, was born at St. Laurent, Quebec, in 1874, and is one of the many brilliant Canadians of French affiliations who have done so much to enrich the legal history of Canada. He is the son of Gervais and Angelique Cousineau and was educated at Ste. Therese College, and at Laval University, where he secured his B.A. in 1894, his LL.L. in 1896 and his LL.D. in 1901. He read law with J. Beauchamp and with C. R. Charles Bruchesi. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1896 and was created King’s Counsel in 1909. Like many of his compatriots Mr. Cousineau united law and politics. He began his political career as mayor of St. Laurent, an office he held from 1904 to 1908. In that year he resigned his mayoralty to become member of the Quebec Legislature for the district of Jacques Cartier. He was re-elected in 1912 and in 1915 and 1916 was leader of the opposition at Quebec. His authorship in 1901 of a brilliant thesis “Des Corporations” was possibly one of the determining influences in his appointment to the professorship of “Droit Administrative” at Laval University, a position he has held since 1903. He is also a member of the Canadian and the Chapleau Clubs. In 1897 Mr. Cousineau married Helmina, daughter of L. S. Gendron. He has four daughters, Aline, Gilberte, Jeanne and Gabrielle. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion a Roman Catholic. He still maintains the family residence at St. Laurent.

=Cutten, George Barton=, of Wolfeville, Nova Scotia, president Acadia University, is one of the interesting Canadians who have won educational honor in their own country. Dr. Cutten was born at Amherst, Nova Scotia, on April 11, 1874. His parents were William Herman Cutten and Abbie Ann Trefry, and their early training was doubtless responsible for their son’s brilliant career. At twenty-two he won his B.A. degree from Acadia, the university he was afterwards destined to govern as president; at twenty-three he was B.A. at Yale, and from then on he won in rapid succession his M.A. at Acadia, his Ph.D. at Yale, his B.D. at Yale, his D.D. at Colgate and his LL.D. at Acadia. In 1898 Dr. Cutten married Minnie W. Brown, daughter of John Ingerson Brown and Sophia Zwicker of Westfield, Mass., and his four children are Margarita Joy, born in 1902; Muriel Grace, born in 1904; Claire, born in 1906 and William Francis, born in 1908. Dr. Cutten is a member of two Greek letter fraternities, the Phi Sigma Delta, and the Phi Beta Kappa, is a Baptist in religion and an Independent in politics, but he is not a Pacifist, for he has held two military commissions—Captain in the 219th Battalion, and Major in the 246th. Dr. Cutten is the author of a number of interesting books: “The Psychology of Alcoholism” (Walter Scott Publishing Company, London), “The Psychological Phenomena of Christianity,” and “Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing,” both published by Scribner’s, New York; “The Case of John Kinsel” (Psychological Review), and “The Christian Life in a Baptist Church” (Marriott Press, Corning, New York.).

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=Goring, C. C.=, manufacturer, of 172 Markland Street, Hamilton, Ontario, is a self-made man, and proud of it. He furnishes one of the numerous cases we have in Canada of the farmer’s son who gets well up the ladder by persistent, well-directed efforts along one line of business. Commencing as an oil salesman on “the road,” Mr. Goring eventually had charge of the sales force of a large refinery in New York State. From that he went into the jobbing and export department and eventually he incorporated a company which has done a successful business both in the United States and in Canada. He is now president and managing director of the Ontario Lubricating Company, Limited. Mr. Goring was born at Homer, Ontario, on March 31, 1878, his parents being Ransom Goring and Melissa Cushman. He received a Canadian public school education and went directly from school into business. On January 2, 1907, he married Edith Wildman, daughter of Edwin Wildman, Hamilton, Ontario. He has two children, Gladys Irene, born February 15, 1909, and Gordon Hamilton, born January 27, 1915. Mr. Goring is a Protestant, a Conservative and a Mason.

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=Dinnick, Lieut.-Col. Wilfrid Servington=, one of the leading financiers and public men of Toronto, was born at Guildford, England, on July 19th, 1874, the son of (Rev.) John Dunn and Charlotte Matilda Dinnick. He was educated at York School, Brighton, Eng., and came to Canada in 1889. In that year he obtained a position in the office of the Provincial Loan Company, Toronto, where he remained for two years, joining the Canadian Birbeck Investment Security and Savings Co., with which corporation he remained until 1895. By the time he was twenty-one he had acquired through his natural aptitude for finance a very complete knowledge of the Canadian investment field and before he was thirty had become a prominent figure in Toronto financial circles. He is at present Vice-President of the Standard Reliance Mortgage Corporation, 84 King St. East, Toronto; and President of the Sterling Trusts Corporation. Notable among his business achievements was that of founding and organizing Lawrence Park, one of the exclusive suburban residential districts of Toronto, which by virtue of the policy which he adopted in the matter of planning and building restrictions, is one of the beauty spots of a city renowned for its palatial homes. His services of a public character became especially noteworthy during the late war. On Dec. 21st, 1914, he organized the 109th Regiment in which he holds the rank of Lieut.-Col. This organization largely through the energetic methods of Col. Dinnick sent to the front over 200 officers and 5000 men, who served chiefly in the 84th and 169th Overseas Battalions and seven other quotas also. It also contributed the C.D.F. Battalion for home defence in Canada. As an organizer of public benefactions Col. Dinnick also showed indefatigable energy and organizing talent. He was largely instrumental in securing $2,400,000 for the Toronto and York Patriotic Fund in 1916; and $3,400,000 for the same object in 1917. He was also the organizer of the British Red Cross Appeal in 1915 and raised $550,000, which was increased to $740,000 in 1916. He has likewise willingly given his services to numerous appeals of a minor character, and many organizations have profited by his unique abilities in that field. He has been active in support of schemes of civic improvement and was the originator of the Back Garden development idea in Toronto, which has been blessed with excellent results. He is a Conservative in politics, a member of St. Paul’s (Anglican) Church, Toronto, and is Honorary Secretary of the Canadian Council of the Pocket Testament League. His recreations are Motoring and horse-back riding and he is the President and one of the founders of the Lawrence Park Lawn Bowling Club. He is also a member of the Albany, National, Toronto Hunt, Lambton Golf, Rosedale Golf, and Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs, Toronto, and of the A.F. & A.M. In New York on June 16th, 1905, he married Miss Alice Louise Conlin and has two sons and two daughters. His residence is at Bedford Lodge, Toronto.

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=Ewing, William=, one of the best known of the younger business men of Montreal, was born in that city on May 4th, 1884, the son of William and Catherine Kinross Ewing. He was educated at Montreal High School and at L’Assomption College, L’Assomption, Quebec. On leaving college about sixteen years ago he joined the business of his father, who had established the firm of William Ewing & Co., Wholesale Seedsmen, at Montreal, in 1869. When the firm was re-organized as a joint stock corporation with the title of the William Ewing Co., Ltd., in 1913, the subject of this sketch became Secretary-Treasurer and also a Director. Formerly Mr. Ewing was known on the football field throughout Eastern Canada and is President of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and also of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association Football Club. He is an active member of the M.A.A.A. and also of the Caledonian Society of Montreal. His recreations are fishing and football and he has also interested himself in military affairs and holds a commission as lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, G.G. of C. On July 22nd, 1910, he married Isabel Swanson Forbes, a daughter of Mr. George E. Forbes of the well-known firm of Forbes Bros., Wholesale Grocers, Montreal. He has two children, Isabel Graham, born May 10th, 1912, and William, born Dec. 26th, 1914. In religion he is a Presbyterian and resides at 329 Addington Ave., Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal.

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=Kelso, John Joseph= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist and Social Worker, has resided in Toronto since childhood, but was born in Dundalk, Ireland, March 31, 1864, son of George and Anna Kelso, descendants of Scotch Covenanters. Took up Journalism in 1886 and was for several years member of the “Globe” staff. Devoted to philanthropy, has written thousands of columns on Social Welfare. Organized Toronto Humane Society in 1886-7; Children’s Fresh Air Fund in 1888; Children’s Aid Society, 1891; Playgrounds Association, 1908; was mainly responsible for educational propaganda leading to passing of Children’s Protection Act by Ontario Government, and under its provision was appointed General Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children, and Inspector of Industrial Schools. In its initial stages Mr. Kelso had much to do with the inauguration of the Juvenile Court movement, having addressed the Waif Saving Congress on the subject at the World’s Fair, Chicago, in October, 1893. He was also one of the first advocates of Widowed Mothers’ Aid and Workmen’s Compensation Boards. In March, 1898, Mr. Kelso addressed the Legislature of Manitoba and British Columbia and they unanimously agreed to adopt the Ontario system of child protection. In 1905 he visited Nova Scotia with the same successful result; in 1908 Saskatchewan, and in 1913, New Brunswick. All Canada now follows the same methods of carrying on Child Welfare work, Mr. Kelso having organized over two hundred and fifty Children’s Aid Societies, in addition to Social Settlements, etc. Started Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction in 1897 and was elected Vice-President; was also elected Vice-President of National (U.S.) Conference of Charities in 1902. Represented Ontario at Conference on Child Welfare called by President Roosevelt and also at International Prison Congress held in Washington. These Conferences led to many present-day reforms. In 1903-5 Mr. Kelso performed notable service for the Province by emptying the Ontario Reformatory for Boys at Penetanguishene and the Ontario Refuge for Girls, by providing homes and situations for all the inmates. These institutions were converted into Hospitals for the Insane. Is still engaged in the work. Was married, 1901, to Irene Madden Martin, of Nashville, Tenn., and has two children, a son and daughter. Is Elder and S.S. Superintendent of St. James’ Square Presbyterian Church. He resides at 21 Prince Arthur Ave.

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=Douglas, William James= (Toronto, Ont.), Journalist, is the General Manager of the “Mail and Empire,” one of the leading Canadian dailies and influential exponent of the Liberal-Conservative thought in Ontario. He is a son of the late James S. Douglas, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., and Frances Boardman, and was born in Hamilton, N.Y., U.S.A., May 28, 1846. After education at Milwaukee, Wis., he came to Canada in 1877, where he has held his present position for many years. Mr. Douglas married Eliza, daughter of Jeremiah Riordan, Surgeon in the Royal Navy, in 1868, and has four children—William, James S., Howard R. and Amy Douglas. He was formerly Vice-President of the National Club, and is a Trustee of the Toronto General Hospital, and of the Canadian Associated Press, of which he was a promoter. A Presbyterian in religion and a Conservative in politics. Mr. Douglas numbers among his clubs the National and Albany of Toronto, the Rideau of Ottawa, the Caledon Mountain Trout Club and the Cuckoo Valley Fishing Club. Is a Justice of the Peace for the County of York.

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=Delage, Cyrille F.=, Notary Public (Quebec City, Que.), son of J. B. Delage and Mary E. E. Fraser, was born in the above place, May 1, 1869, and received his education at Quebec Seminary and Laval University, Quebec, from which last he graduated with the degrees of L.B., LL.B., and LL.D. In 1894, Mr. Delage married Alice, daughter of Telesphore Boursseau and Celina Genest, by whom he has four children—Paul-Edouard, Maurice, Emile, and Marguerite. To-day, this distinguished Canadian holds the following public offices: Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Province of Quebec; officer d’Acadamie (France); member, Royal Society of Canada, French Section; Hon. President of the Quebec Provincial Exhibition Commission; President, Canadian Patriotic Fund, Quebec Branch; President National War Saving Committee, Quebec Branch; Honorary President of Society of Education, Canada; President, Catholic Committee, Council Public Instruction, Quebec; Member Protestant Committee, Council Public Instruction; and member Conseil des Arts et Metiers, Quebec. Council of Agriculture. At the time of his appointment as Superintendent of Public Instruction, the “Quebec Telegraph” said editorially: “Undoubtedly the Legislature will lose by his disappearance from it, but the Province will unquestionably be a large gainer by the transfer of his abilities, experience, and congenial tastes to the Department of Public Instruction.” A Liberal in politics and a Roman Catholic in religion, Mr. Delage is a member of the Canadian and Garrison Clubs of Quebec City, in addition to the Union St. Joseph, St. Roch; Union St. Joseph, Beauport; Artisans Canadiens-français; Alliance Nationale; Royal Arcanum, and the Independent Order of Foresters.

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=Hocken, Norman Cecil= (Otter Lake Station, Ont.), Lumberman, the son of Henry Hocken and Lucina Soper, was born in Bowmanville, Ont., November 28, 1880, and educated at the Bowmanville Public School. His father being in the lumber business, he naturally came much in contact with that line of business, so deciding to strike out for himself in 1903, he became connected with the Victoria Harbor Lumber Company, and the Charlton Sawmill Company, finally going into business for himself and at the present time is owner of four sawmills and upwards of fifty square miles of timber limits. In politics he is a Reformer and was nominated by the Liberal party as their standard-bearer for the constituency of Parry Sound, for the House of Commons, to represent them at the next Dominion Election. Mr. Hocken is a member of the Methodist Church, of the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto, of the Ontario Club, Toronto, and of the Masonic Order. He married the daughter of James Kydd, and has five children—Bernice, Melvin, Loydd, Ralph and Robert.

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=King, Hon. James H., M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.=, Physician and Surgeon, Cranbrook, B.C., President, King Lumber Mills, Ltd., Cranbrook, B.C. Born Chipman, N.B., January 18, 1872, son of Hon. G. G. and Ester Briggs King. Educated St. Martin’s Academy and McGill University. Practised Andover and St. John, N.B., 1895-1898. Came to British Columbia 1898; practised Cranbrook since. Vice-President Graduates Society, McGill University, 1908. Attended World Congress of Medicine and Surgery, Budapest, Hungary, 1909, and on this occasion was presented at the Austrian Court. Represented Cranbrook, British Columbia Legislature, 1903, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for Kootenay to House of Commons, 1911; elected to British Columbia Parliament, September 14, 1916; accepted portfolio of Public Works in the new government formed November 29, 1916; one of the original Founders and Governors of the American College of Surgeons at Chicago, 1913. Married Nellie Sadler, Maple View, N.B., 1907. Societies: A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., K. of P. Liberal, Baptist. Residence, Victoria, B.C.

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=Oliver, Hon. John= (Victoria, B.C.), son of Robert Oliver, of Derbyshire, England, and Emma Lomas, his wife, of Staffordshire. Was born on July 31, 1856, at Hartington, Derbyshire, England. In April, 1870, his parents, with eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eldest, left the Motherland, and eventually settled on a farm in Wellington County, Ontario. There he worked on his father’s farm in the summer and went to the woods in the winter, and, in his spare time, picked up stone masonry. In 1877, the future premier set out for Victoria B.C., with only a few dollars in his pocket and no particular job in sight. Twenty-three years later he returned to the capital as a member of the Legislature, and forty years afterwards he became head of the Provincial Government. Shortly after going to British Columbia, Mr. Oliver took up land in the Delta municipality, and to-day he is the proprietor of one of the finest farms in the province. Mr. Oliver has always evinced a genius for public service, and has always taken a keen and intelligent interest in public questions. He had not been long in the west before he was elected a member of the Delta Municipal Council, and was later reeve for several terms. He was first elected to the British Columbia Legislature at the general elections in 1900, and re-elected in 1903 and 1907. At the general elections in 1909, as leader of the Opposition, he contested two constituencies, Victoria and Delta, and was defeated in both. A similar experience awaited him in 1911, and again in the campaign in 1912. In 1916, upon the formation of the Brewster cabinet, he was appointed Minister of Railways and Agriculture. On the death of Premier Brewster, after one session in office, Mr. Oliver was called upon by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government, which he did, retaining his former portfolios, besides acting as Premier. His reputation as a parliamentarian of the first rank was firmly established by the part he played in the exposure of what was known as the “Columbia and Western Railway Scandal.” He was chiefly instrumental in having grants for some 650,000 acres of coal mining land in the Kootenay district cancelled. Premier Oliver was married on June 20, 1886, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Woodward, of Mud Bay, British Columbia. He is the father of the following children: Robert, William Arthur, John Thomas, Charles Edward, Joseph, Elizabeth Alice, Sarah Ellen, Mildred Emma. Premier Oliver has for years been known as “Honest John,” and his long record for probity and fair dealing justly entitles him to this distinction. Although somewhat handicapped in early life by lack of scholastic training, the Premier was by nature a student, and he became a wide reader. He is a man of rugged honesty, industrious and aggressive, and enjoys a measure of public confidence which is indicated by the title conferred upon him by the people of his province. The Premier’s candour and courage are recognized as his greatest assets, while his long association with public affairs and foremost position in the Liberal party has made his name a household word in British Columbia. The Premier possesses sufficient property, acquired by his own industry, to make him independent of political fortunes. He is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and picturesque figures in Canadian public life.

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=Ferguson, Hon. George Howard, B.A., LL.B., K.C., M.L.A.= (Toronto, Ont.), son of Dr. Charles Frederick Ferguson (Scotch), and Elizabeth Wallace Bell, his wife (Irish). Was born on the 18th day of June, 1870, at Kemptville, Ont. Educated at Kemptville High School, Toronto University, and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. Called to the bar in 1894. Married April 14th, 1896, to Ella Cumming, of Buckingham, Quebec. Was a councillor for three years and a reeve for three years of the village of Kemptville. His father, Charles F. Ferguson, M.D., represented the constituency of North Leeds and Grenville in the House of Commons from 1893 to 1896, when he retired. First elected to the Ontario Legislature at the general elections as the member for Grenville, 1905. Re-elected at the general elections 1908, 1911, 1912 and 1914. A member of the Executive Council of the Hearst Administration as Minister of Lands, and Forests and Mines, December 22nd, 1914. Re-elected after assuming the office by acclamation, January 7th, 1915. He is an Anglican and a member of the Masonic Order; the Odd Fellows; Independent Order of Foresters; Orangemen and Maccabees. The Honorable Mr. Ferguson is a man of fine address and good oratorical ability. He is extremely popular with all members of the Legislature.

=Grant, Gordon=, is the son of Peter Grant, a distinguished Civil Engineer who was employed on the construction of the Caledonia and Great North of Scotland Railways, who came to Canada in 1868, and who was from that date to its completion in 1876, employed on the construction of the Intercolonial Railway and subsequently on the Canadian Pacific Railway until its completion in 1885, and Helen (Gordon) Grant. Mr. Grant was born in Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland, January 2nd, 1865, and came to Canada in 1872. He was educated in the Ottawa Business College and the Ottawa University. In 1882 Mr. Grant was invited to join the staff of his uncle, the late William B. Grant, C.E., who was then Chief Engineer of the Great Southern Railway in the Argentina Republic, and remained a member of his staff for six years, during which time he was employed on the construction of several hundred miles of railway. In 1887 there was a severe depression in the public works in that republic and railway construction came to a stop. Returning to Canada Mr. Grant was employed on the construction of the Sydney extension of the Intercolonial Railway until 1890. In July of that year he joined the staff of the late P. A. Peterson, then Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and remained with him until July, 1893, when he accepted a position as Division Engineer of Construction on the Palm Beach extension of the Florida East Railway, and remained there until its completion in 1895, when he joined the Construction Department of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was employed on the construction of the Crow’s Nest Pass and other Western branch lines until 1905, when he joined the staff of Mr. Hugh D. Lumsden, recently appointed Chief Engineer of the National Transcontinental Railway Commission. He was appointed Assistant District Engineer in May, 1906, Inspecting Engineer over the whole line in May, 1907, and on the resignation of Mr. Lumsden in July, 1909, was appointed by the Government to the position of Chief Engineer and remained in that position until the completion of the Railway, when he was, in January, 1917, appointed consulting Engineer to the Department of Railways and Canals, and also had charge of the work of completing the Quebec & Saguenay Railway from Quebec to Murray Bay, a very difficult piece of railway construction. In December, 1906, Mr. Grant married Katherine McCarthy, daughter of William McCarthy, Civil Engineer, and has two sons and two daughters. Mr. Grant is a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the American Railway Engineers’ Association; and a member of the Rideau, Royal Ottawa Golf and Rivermead Golf Clubs. In religion Mr. Grant is a Catholic. His residence is 58 Sweetland Ave., Ottawa, Ont.

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=Rawlings, Henry Edward=, of 115 Crescent Street, Montreal, is a prominent Fidelity and Surety Underwriter in Canada and in the U.S.A., and is the President and Managing Director of the Guarantee Company of North America, the “pioneer company” in its particular field on this continent. He was born in Montreal on September 25, 1875, the son of Edward and Lucretia (Carter) Rawlings, and was educated at Lennoxville Academy and in other institutions. His late father, Edward Rawlings, was the founder of the Guarantee Company of North America in 1872, and the son was brought up with a most complete knowledge of its business. He went to the United States in 1897, and entered various branch offices of the G.C.N.A. and its affiliated institution, the United States Guarantee Company of New York. About 1905 he was appointed Vice-President of the American Company and in 1909 returned to Montreal to assume executive control of the parent institution, the Guarantee Company of North America. At this time he took the title of Assistant-Manager and on the demise of his father succeeded him in the positions, President and Managing Director. He was also appointed to succeed the elder Rawlings as a Director on the Board of the Montreal Telegraph Company. Mr. Rawlings’ business duties, which are international in scope have engrossed much of his time but he has published one important guide to business corporations entitled “How to Prevent Defalcations.” When the war broke out he entered the Home Guard as a full private and qualified himself by military drill. His recreations are described as “motoring, golf, and a little of everything else.” In religion he is an Anglican and in politics a Conservative, and is a member of the following Clubs: Mount Royal, St. James, Montreal, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream, Royal Montreal Golf, Beaconsfield Golf, Indoor Tennis Club, Winter Club, Automobile Club of Canada, St. Paul’s Lodge, A.F. & A.M. and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Rawlings was married in 1907 to a daughter of Hon. James Bunting Snowball, Senator and former Lieut.-Governor of New Brunswick, and one of the pioneer lumber merchants of that Province. The union has been blessed with two children, Margaret Snowball, and Henry Miller Fitzwilliam Rawlings.

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=Hara, Frederick North= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in that city on April 28, 1856. Son of John and Charlotte A. (Phelps) Hara. Educated at the Public Schools of St. Catharines and began his business career in 1874 as an office boy with S. Atkinson & Sons, Toronto. With said firm he subsequently became book-keeper and in 1878 returned to St. Catharines to accept a similar position with H. Patterson & Co. In 1884 he was promoted to the position of office and business manager and in 1893, when the firm name was changed to E. H. Phelps & Co., he purchased a partnership interest in the business and continued to act as business manager. In 1901, when the enterprise was re-organized and incorporated as the Canada Wheel Works, Ltd., he became its President and General Manager. In 1914 another change was effected when an amalgamation was arranged with the Windsor Turned Goods Co., Ltd., and the new corporation became known as the Canada Pole and Shaft Co., Ltd., of which Mr. Hara was appointed and still is President. His other business and industrial interests are extensive. He is President of the St. Catharines Steel and Metal Company, Ltd.; Vice-President of the Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.; President of the United Gas Co., Ltd.; a Director of Industrials, Ltd., St. Catharines; a Director of the Port Arthur Wagon and Implements Co., Ltd.; and is also interested as a shareholder in many other companies. During the recent war his business energy was sought in connection with Red Cross and Patriotic Funds and he became an ardent worker and supporter of them, and was a member of the local executive in connection therewith. Though on many occasions his fellow citizens have desired that he take public office, his only experience of the kind was thirty years ago when he served two years as a school trustee at Merritton. His recreations are motoring and golf, and he is a Past President of the St. Catharines Club; Vice-President (1918) of the St. Catharines Golf Club and a member of the Laurentian Club, Ottawa. He is also a member of the A.F. & A.M., and is a Liberal in politics. On June 5, 1905, he married Emma Catherine, daughter of Mr. John Baillie.

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=Hough, John Atwell= (Matheson, Ont.), Police Magistrate, was born in Ireland in 1882, and received his early education in England and Scotland, but migrated to Canada at an early age. He was appointed Mining Recorder, Larder Lake Mining Division, with headquarters at Larder Lake, Ont., in March, 1907; four years later, however, the boundaries of the Division were enlarged and the head office moved to Matheson, where he now resides. As Police Magistrate for the Town of Matheson and part of the District of Temiskaming, Mr. Hough was placed in charge of all relief work from Ramore to Porquis Junction, after the great fire which devastated Northern Ontario on July 29, 1916, and many stricken families have reason to be thankful for the energy and public spirit with which he discharged this difficult task. John Hough is a Conservative in politics and a member of the Masonic Order. By his wife, Myrtle, daughter of M. Donaghue of Windsor, Ont., he has two children.

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=Fifield, Albert Frank= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Lowell, Mass., on Feb. 8, 1876. Son of Frank and Abie Mary (Cummings) Fifield, of Ashland, N.H. Educated at the Public Schools of New Hampshire and commenced his business career operating a machine shop in Ashland, in 1896. This he continued until 1905, when he accepted a position as Construction Superintendent of the Jenckes Machine Company, Quebec, and has ever since been a resident of Canada. In 1907 he set up business at St. Catharines and engaged in buying and selling machinery until 1910. He established the Reo Sales Company for the sales of Reo motor cars in Canada, and, during this period, organized and fully carried out a coast to coast motor trip in a Reo car. This was the first trip of the kind made in Canada and Mr. Fifield furnished the car and men. In 1914 he organized and became the first General Manager of the Metal Drawing Company, Ltd., of St. Catharines. In pursuance of his policy of building up new industries in the city of his adoption, Mr. Fifield, when the demand came for shells from the British War Office, sold out his other interests and engaged in the manufacturing of munitions on a large scale with great success. In fact, he was one of the most prominent figures in this industry during the Great War. He also organized the American Patriotic Fund among former residents of the United States living in St. Catharines, part of whose revenues were subsequently diverted to the associated charities of the city, of which he was for a time chairman and is now a member of the executive. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Local Branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He is Independent in politics, a Protestant in religion and a member of the A.F. & A.M. His recreations are motoring, angling and hunting and he belongs to the following clubs: St. Catharines, Niagara (Niagara Falls, N.Y.), Buffalo Motor, St. Catharines Golf, and St. Catharines Canoe. On May 25, 1904, he married Velma Faunee, daughter of A. N. Linscott, Damarscotta Mills, Maine, and has two daughters.

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=Wright, Harry George= (Hamilton, Ont.), Manufacturer, is the surviving partner and President of the E. T. Wright Company, Ltd., Tinware, founded in 1883, Mr. E. T. Wright having died in 1908, with whose passing the firm suffered the loss of a man whose practical knowledge and mechanical ability had done much to lay the foundations of the present flourishing business. Mr. H. G. Wright is well known throughout Canada, having represented the firm for many years on the road, where the many friends made in his younger days still know him best as “Harry.” Energetic and aggressive, he has always been the life of the concern since its inception. Coming as he does of good Devonshire fighting stock, it is not surprising to find that two of Mr. Wright’s sons are taking an active part in the Great War. Captain George Craig Wright, Vice-President of the firm, has just returned from the front, having served from the first and being the first officer to enlist in the Fourth Battalion of the City of Hamilton in 1914. He was the only officer of that battalion left at the battles of Langemarcke and Ypres, who was not either wounded, captured or killed. For efficient conduct he was promoted to his present rank and, although home on furlough, is acting as Brigade Major to the Sixth Brigade on the Niagara Peninsula. Mr. Gordon Wright, the Treasurer, has received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royals. The subject of this sketch was born at Bethany, Pa., December 11, 1855, the son of Thomas W. Wright, and came to Hamilton five years later, where he received his education in the Public School and Commercial College. In 1889 he married the daughter of George Craig, of R. Hay & Company, Toronto, Ont., and has five children—George Craig, Kate, H. Gordon, Phyllis and Jack Edwin. Mr. Wright is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. His recreations are golf and bowling, and he is a member of the following clubs: Hamilton, Commercial, Royal Yacht and Victoria Curling, all of Hamilton, and the Ontario, of Toronto.

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=Robertson, William Robert= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of James J. and Elizabeth Robertson. Was born at Hamilton, Ont., on June 28th, 1875, where he received his education. Married September 17th, 1905, to Maud, daughter of P. J. O’Neil, of Merritton, Ont., and has one son (William.) Is the Superintendent of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, and a member of the Masonic Order, Engineer’s Club, Toronto, and St. Catharines Club. Mr. Robertson has always been interested in amateur sports and was manager of the St. Catharines Hockey Team 1908-13; President of the Niagara District Baseball League, 1910-14. He has been identified with all patriotic movements and took a leading part in raising funds for war purposes. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission; Secretary of St. Catharines Recruiting League and was Military Representative on the Conscription Tribunal at St. Catharines. Mr. Robertson holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Provincial Corps Guides.

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=Innes, Hugh Patterson, K.C.=, Barrister-at-Law of Simcoe, Ont., is a prominent figure in the politics of Western Ontario. He is a son of William P. and Marion (Livingstone) Innes and was born at Dundas, Ont. on Sept. 14th, 1870. His father is an eminent manufacturer and capitalist who was one of the pioneers of the canning industry in this country, and is now a Director of Dominion Canners, Limited. The subject of this sketch was educated at the public and High schools of Simcoe, Norfolk county, and studied for the legal profession at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He was called to the Bar of Ontario on graduation in 1893, and has since practised at Simcoe, where he acts as Town solicitor and legal adviser for the Molsons Bank, Dominion Canners, Ltd., and other important institutions. He has also been a public and High school trustee for the town and was made a King’s Counsel in 1908. In the latter year he was the candidate of the Conservative party at the general elections for the Ontario Legislature and was elected. Subsequently he voluntarily resigned his seat to become the candidate of his party for the House of Commons in the Federal riding of Norfolk and was nominated in the spring of 1915, the date of the contest at that time being uncertain. In the autumn of 1917, however, after Union Government was formed it was necessary for Sir Robert Borden to ask certain Conservative candidates to make the sacrifice of withdrawing from the field in order to permit the election of prominent Liberals who had given their support to Union Government. Mr. Innes was one of these and his course in stepping aside assured the election of Hon. W. A. Charlton as a Liberal-Unionist representative of Norfolk. Nevertheless his election to the Commons at some future day may be regarded as a certainty. Mr. Innes is a Presbyterian and a member of the following lodges: Norfolk No. 10; A.F. & A.M. and Past Master Ezra Chapter, No. 23; Royal Arch Masons. On June 29th, 1898, he married Mabel M., daughter of His Honor Judge Livingstone of Norfolk County and has eight children, Margaret Livingstone; Hugh Paterson, Jr.; Robert T. L.; Helen M.; Constance M.; Grace L.; James S.; and Edith V. Innes.

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=Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager Bank of Montreal, is one of the outstanding figures in the financial world of Canada. During his eight years as Manager of the Bank’s London, England Branch, Sir Frederick was notably successful in financing many Canadian municipal and corporate undertakings in that market. Recently his abilities have been devoted to war-time financing in Canada. On both sides of the Atlantic, therefore, he has had wide experience in the flotation of high-class Canadian issues. In addition to being expert in all financial matters, Sir Frederick is possessed of marked personality and exceptional social charm. Born at Moncton, New Brunswick, October 23, 1863, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and Rosalind Beatty. Sir Frederick entered the service of the Bank of Montreal in 1878; since then he has been successively Assistant Inspector, Head Office, 1897; Joint Manager, Chicago, 1903; Manager, London, Eng., 1906, and General Manager, November, 1913. The distinguished subject of this sketch was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Society of Arts for his paper, “Canadian Loans in London,” before the Royal Colonial Institute, 1912; was knighted, 1913, and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick, 1915. As a young man he won distinction in many forms of athletics, including rowing, tennis, squash and snow-shoeing. Sir Frederick married Jane Fayrer, daughter of Joshua Henshaw, Esq., Montreal, 1888, by whom he has one son, Lieutenant Travers Williams-Taylor, 13th Hussars, B.E.F., and one daughter, Mrs. Frank Duff Frazier, of 17 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y., and “Uplands,” Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. In addition to being General Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Sir Frederick is a Director of the Allan Steamship Company, Ltd., and the Liverpool and London & Globe Insurance Company, Ltd.; Director and member Executive Committee, Royal Trust Company, and Vice-President of the Canadian Bankers’ Association. His clubs include Mount Royal, St. James and University, Montreal, Que.; Rideau, Ottawa, Ont.; York, Toronto, Ont.; Metropolitan and Down Town, New York, N.Y.; St. James, Bath, City of London, Ranelagh and Swinley Forest Golf, all of London, Eng. Sir Frederick resides at 686 Mountain Street, Montreal.

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=Law, Bonnar B.= (Yarmouth, N.S.), late member of Parliament for Yarmouth County, N.S., was the son of William and Mary A. Law, of Yarmouth, and was born in Douglas, Mass., U.S.A., July 29, 1855. After graduating from the Yarmouth Public School, Mr. Law entered on a commercial career and was one of the successful merchants in his home town. For thirteen years he was a Director of the Exchange Bank of Yarmouth, until its absorption by the Bank of Montreal, and for six and a half years a town Councillor of Yarmouth. Mr. Law was a Director of the Canadian Wood Working Co., of the Yarmouth Hospital Society and of the Yarmouth Cemetery Co., as well as a trustee of the Yarmouth Public Library and of the Yarmouth Y.M.C.A. Mr. Law lost his life in the burning of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, February 3, 1916. He was first elected to the House of Commons at a by-election, December 3, 1902, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr. Thomas B. Flint as Clerk of the House of Commons. The fact that the late member for Yarmouth County was elected to the House of Commons at Ottawa for a fourth term, with the largest majority ever given a candidate from that Constituency, testified to the esteem in which he was held by those who knew his worth. Mr. Law married Agnes M., daughter of Capt. Joseph B. Lovett, and had an only child, Dorothy I. Law. He was a Methodist in religion and a Liberal in politics.

=Hunnisett, James Edward= (Toronto, Ont.), Educationist, is the son of Frank and Maria Hunnisett, and was born at Toronto, July 14, 1879. He was educated at Givens Street Public School and Harbord Collegiate Institute, Toronto, also at Hamilton Normal College, graduating in 1899. He married Clarice Emley, daughter of Thomas Fussell, construction contractor, in 1910, and has one daughter, Jean Eleanor, born in 1912. Having obtained a scholarship from the Public School in Toronto that gave him free tuition at the High School, Mr. Hunnisett had no difficulty in realizing his natural bent for educational work, and was appointed Assistant Master at Palmerston Ave. Public School, Toronto, in 1900. Since then he has been successively, Principal of Cottingham St. School, Toronto, 1907-09; Clinton St. School, Toronto, 1909-14, and Givens St. School, Toronto, 1914 to date. As member of a former championship team in Interfaculty Association Football at Toronto University, Mr. Hunnisett has always shown a consistent interest in promoting athletic games at the Public Schools of his city, and was President of the Toronto Public Schools Athletic Association in 1906. Mr. Hunnisett is a Conservative in politics and a Methodist in religion. His only fraternal connection is a life membership of St. Andrew’s Masonic Lodge, G.R.C. 16. Mr. Hunnisett has always worked along the line to make the Toronto Public School System second to none on the continent.

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=Norcross, Joseph W.= (Montreal, Que.), is one of the chief factors in the Canadian shipping industry, and though still in his forties has built up a very important position for himself in the Canadian business world. He was born at Port Colborne, Ont., on May 14th, 1871, the son of Samuel R. and Susan (Deeks) Norcross. His father was engaged in Lake transportation and the subject of this sketch after an education at Port Colborne public school and Welland High School, himself entered the same calling. As a mere boy from 1890 to 1892 he ran his own boat, S.S. Varuna on the Bay of Quinte. As he grew older he gradually increased his interests in connection with transportation on the Great Lakes; on extensive amalgamations being effected in 1913, became Vice-President and Managing Director of the Canada Steamships, Ltd., the most important shipping corporation on Canadian Inland waters, which has much to do with the handling of this country’s grain crop, and is also a dominant factor in passenger traffic. In addition to the offices named he is President of the Canadian Chadwick Metals Co., Ltd.; Vice President of the Canada West Coast Navigation Co., Ltd. of British Columbia; Vice-President of the Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.; Director of the Canadian Vickers, Ltd.; Director of the Sterling Bank of Canada; and Director of the Cluff Ammunition Co., Ltd. During the late war the Government availed itself of his expert talents by appointing him a Director of ship construction in connection with the Naval Service Department. In that capacity he rendered very valuable service to the Canadian community and refused to accept remuneration therefor. He is recognized by transportation men everywhere as one of the leading shipping experts of this continent. He is widely known in all the cities of the Great Lakes and a member of many clubs including the Albany and National (Toronto); Travellers’ (London); Montreal and St. James (Montreal); Mississauga Golf (Toronto); Cleveland Athletic Club; Kaministiquia (Fort William); and Shunia (Port Arthur). He is also a member of Montreal Board of Trade, the Toronto Board of Trade and the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. He is a Protestant in religion and was married on Jan. 2nd, 1895, to Jessie, daughter of John McCullough, Port Colborne, Ont., by whom he has two daughters, Jessie Eileen and Helen J. Norcross.

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=McCarthy, Jesse Overn= (Toronto, Ont.), Vice-President and General Manager of the Security Life Insurance Co. of Canada, has been somewhat prominently connected for twenty-five years with the life insurance business of the Dominion and in the field of Social Welfare and Moral Reform. Nearly thirty years ago he began giving addresses on Child Welfare Problems and on different phases of Social Welfare work and legislation, when to speak on these matters was like “a voice crying in the wilderness,” and has seen the objects which he so strongly advocated accomplished to a remarkable extent in legislative and practical effort by the city and province alike. During that time he has given over two thousand addresses before churches, Canadian Clubs and municipal organizations. His entry into the municipal life of Toronto, first as alderman and then as Controller, was due to the adverse conditions prevailing at that time in the Isolation Hospital and his desire to see a thoroughly up-to-date and efficient Health Department established. Outside authorities and those familiar with the situation have stated that he was able to strongly interest and influence the Council in all health and social problems, so that splendid progress was made during the time that he was connected with that body. A Methodist in religion and a Liberal in politics, Mr. McCarthy served as Alderman of the City of Toronto, 1910-1911, and as Controller, 1912-1914. He is a member of the Board of Trade, the Sons of Temperance, the Royal Templars of Temperance, the Canadian Order of Foresters, and the Protestant Benevolent Society, as also of Parkdale Canoe and Lawn Bowling Clubs. Mr. McCarthy is the son of Charles Calahan and Margaret Frances McCarthy. He was born in Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ont., November 10, 1867, and was educated in the Public Schools. He married Mary, daughter of James Grant Davis, Jarvis, Ont., August 10, 1892, by whom he has two daughters, Lilian Pearl and Mary Vourneen, and one son, Jesse Davis.

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=Massey, Charles Vincent= (Toronto, Ont.), Lecturer in Modern History, University of Toronto, and Dean of Residence, Victoria College, Toronto. The son of Chester D. Massey, Honorary President of the Massey-Harris Company, Ltd, and Anna (Vincent) Massey. Born in Toronto, on February 20, 1887. Educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1910) and Balliol College, Oxford (2nd Cl. Mod. Hist. B.A. 1913, M.A. 1918). Married 1915, Alice S., daughter of George R. Parkin, C.M.G., D.C.L., Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, by whom he has two sons, Lionel, born July 2nd, 1916, and Hart, born March 30th, 1918. Mr. Massey is a Director of the Massey-Harris Co., and of the Toronto Housing Co., a member of the Board of Governors, Toronto General Hospital, and of the Art Museum, of Toronto, Vice-Chairman of the Massey Foundation, a Governor of the Wesleyan College, Montreal, and a Director of Ridley College, St. Catharines. He held a commission in the University of Toronto contingent, C.O.T.C., 1914-1915, was appointed to Headquarters Staff, Military District No. 2, November, 1915, to take charge of musketry training, and was promoted temporary Lieut.-Col. October, 1916. (Mentioned for services). He was appointed Secretary of the War Committee of the Federal Cabinet, January, 1918, and Secretary of the Dominion Government Repatriation Committee in December, 1918, becoming in March, 1919, the Director of the Committee. He is a member of the York, University, Toronto Golf and Arts and Letters Clubs, all of Toronto, and of the Savile Club, London, England. A Liberal in politics, and a Methodist in religion. Residence, Dean’s House, Victoria College, Toronto.

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