Chapter XXI: Part 21

=Miller, Frederick Robert= (Western University, London, Ont.), son of A. F. Miller and Elizabeth Crean. Was born at Toronto. Educated at Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1907, holding degrees of M.A., M.B. Was Assistant in Physiology in Cornell University for two years. Demonstrator of Physiology in the University of Toronto 1907-10. Studied in Munich 1910-1911, where he obtained the degree of M.D. from the University of Munich. Took a post-graduate course in the University of Strasbourg, and afterwards spent some time attending clinics in Paris, France. Afterwards studied for a year at the University of Liverpool with Prof C. S. Sherrington. Was Lecturer on Physiology, McGill University, 1912-1914. Studied in University of Oxford during summer of 1914. Appointed Professor of Physiology at Western University, London, Ont., 1914, which position he still fills with distinction. Dr. Miller is an Anglican in religion, and holds a commission as Captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He has contributed a number of articles to British and American journals on physiological subjects. He has travelled extensively, visiting the most important educational centres both in Europe and America.

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=Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, M.D., F.A.C.S., M.P.P.=, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, during the late war, proved himself one of the ablest members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was born at Charlottetown on November 12, 1858, the son of John T. and Jessie Esther (Rice) Jenkins. His paternal grandfather was Rev L. C. Jenkins, and his maternal one, Captain the Hon. Stephen Rice. His father John T. Jenkins, M.D., M.R.C.S. (Eng.), was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1884 to 1887. The subject of this sketch was educated at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A., from which he graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1884. Returning to Charlottetown, he entered on the practice of his profession, and became one of the best known physicians in the Maritime Provinces. He is a member of the Dominion Medical Council. In 1912, he was elected to the Legislature of Prince Edward Island as Liberal-Conservative member for Charlottetown, and was re-elected at the general elections in 1915. In September of the latter year, he also became a member of the provincial cabinet, without portfolio. He was on active service in connection with the late war from March, 1915, until his discharge in April, 1919, holding the rank of Lieut.-Col. in the Canadian Army Medical Service, and had charge of the Military Hospital at Rockhead, Halifax, N.S., in 1915. He was a Roman Catholic in religion, a Conservative-Unionist in politics, and a member of the Q.G.D., and the Charlottetown Club. In October, 1886, he married Ellen J., daughter of Patrick Sweeney, merchant, of Charlottetown, and has nine children. His eldest son, Lieut.-Col. John S. Jenkins, D.S.O., had a distinguished career overseas during the late war; also his second son, Henry G., served overseas with the 3rd Bn. C.E., 1st Division, as Capt.; and his other children are, Mary E., Helen J., Nora I., Margaret L., Hilda, Louis C., and M. Stephanie Jenkins.

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=Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, M.P.P.=, Attorney-General and Minister of Labor for British Columbia, has for some years been recognized as one of the leading lawyers on the Pacific Coast. He is, however, a native of New Brunswick, and was born at White’s Cove in that province on December 3, 1878. His father, Hon. L. P. Farris, was formerly Minister of Agriculture for New Brunswick. The subject of this sketch was educated at St. Martin’s Seminary and Acadia University, N.B., graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1899. Subsequently, he took a course at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the legal degree of LL.B. in 1902. In connection with both degrees he took honors. In the same year he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and, having been called to the bar of the province, commenced the practice of law in that city. Within two years he was appointed City Prosecuting Attorney, a post he filled from 1904 to 1906. At the same time he became prominent in politics, and served as President of the Vancouver Liberal Association. In the political upheaval of 1916 he fought strongly for a change of government, and himself stood as one of the Liberal candidates for the Legislature in Vancouver city. He was elected, and proved one of the ablest of the new members that the contest brought into the House. In 1917, the Hon. Mr. Brewster, then Prime Minister, asked Mr. Farris to take the portfolio of Attorney-General and that of Minister of Labor as well, and the latter accepted. Though young in parliamentary experience, Mr. Farris is looked upon as one of the coming men in Canadian politics. In religion he is a Baptist; and is a member of the Terminal City Club, Vancouver, and of the Union Club, Victoria, B.C. He married, in 1905, Evelyn F., daughter of Prof. E. M. Keirstead, D.D., of McMaster University, Toronto, and has four children, Katherine H., Donald F., Ralph K., and John L. Farris. Mr. and Mrs. Farris, until 1918, made their home in Vancouver, but now reside in Victoria, B.C.

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=Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, M.P.P.=, Minister of Lands and Mines for the Province of New Brunswick, resides at Shediac, N.B., where he is also engaged in lumbering and general mercantile business. He was born at Shediac on June 20, 1864, the son of Edward J. and Amelia E. Smith. His father was formerly a prominent member of the New Brunswick Legislature, to which he was elected in 1884, and founded the commercial business now carried on by the subject of this sketch. Sir Albert J. Smith, Minister of Marine and Fisheries for Canada in the government of Hon. Alexander Mackenzie from 1874 to 1878, was an uncle. Hon. E. A. Smith was educated in the High School and also at a private school in Charlottetown, P.E.I., and originally adopted the profession of dentistry, graduating with the degree of D.D.S. in 1887. On leaving college he went to British Columbia, where he practised for two years, and subsequently practised for a year in New Brunswick. He entered his father’s business in 1891, and since 1912 has conducted it under his own name. In 1916, he was induced to follow the family tradition and enter politics, and was elected to the Legislature as Liberal for Westmorland County, defeating Hon. P. J. Mahony, Minister of Public Works. At the general elections of 1917, he was again elected, and was selected as a member of the Foster government, taking over the portfolio of Lands and Mines, for which his business experience amply qualified him. He has since given an effective business administration to the department which was sorely needed, and by his policies has materially added to the public revenues. Sat in Town Council, Shediac, for several years as Alderman, and elected Mayor for 1906 and 1907, by acclamation; President of Liberal Association for County of Westmorland from 1894 to 1911; President of Provincial Liberal Association several years, which position is still held. He is an Anglican in religion, and a Past Master, A.F. & A.M. His recreations are salmon and trout fishing and shooting of small and big game. On September 30, 1896, he married Euphemia, daughter of Mr. Colin Russell, of the Customs Department, Ottawa, and has four children: Gladys, born 1897; Russell, born 1899; Donald, born 1902; and John, born 1911. Though Mr. Smith’s official duties compel his presence in Fredericton, N.B., for the greater part of his time, he still makes his home at Shediac.

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=Turgeon, Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse, K.C., M.P.P.=, Attorney-General of the Province of Saskatchewan, is one of the best known leaders of the legal profession in the Canadian West. He was born at Bathurst, New Brunswick, on June 3, 1877, the son of Onesiphore Turgeon, a French-Canadian journalist, and his wife Margaret Eulalia Baldwin, a lady of English descent. Politics comes naturally to him, for his father is a member of the House of Commons for Gloucester County, New Brunswick, and has long been a prominent figure in the public life of that province, while his brother, J. G. Turgeon, M.P.P., is a member of the Alberta Legislature. The subject of this sketch was educated in New York City, and later at Laval University, Quebec, graduating in Arts in 1899 with the degree of B.A., and in law in 1902. Shortly afterwards he went to the West, and was called to the bar of Saskatchewan. He also became prominent as a leader in the Liberal party, and at a by-election on October 12, 1907, was elected to the legislature for Prince Albert. At the general elections of August, 1908, he contested two ridings in behalf of his party—Prince Albert and Duck Lake. He was defeated in the former, but elected to the latter. At the general elections of 1912, he stood for the riding of Humboldt, and was successful, and has ever since represented that riding. Hon. Mr. Turgeon joined the Ministry of Hon. Walter Scott as Attorney-General on September 23, 1907, shortly before his first political contest in Prince Albert. He has ever since continued to hold that portfolio, and for some years filled that of Provincial Secretary as well. His oratorical powers are exceptional, and he speaks with equal facility both in French and English. He is a Roman Catholic in religion; and on February 18, 1901, married Gertrude, daughter of Gerome Boudreau, Petit Rocher, New Brunswick. He has five children: Alice, born May 13, 1902; Cecile, February 19, 1907; Wilfrid, August 20, 1910; Eveline, November 16, 1913; and Frances Regis, July 12, 1918. He resides at 2320 Angus Street, Regina, Sask.

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=Pritchard, Henry Thomas=, who was born in London, England, February 26, 1852, came to Canada, locating in Ottawa in 1875, and started in business as an engraver. Three years later, in 1878, he formed a partnership with J. E. Andrews, under the firm name of Pritchard and Andrews. Being exceptionally clever engravers, their business so increased that in 1897 a joint stock company was formed, and is now established and known as “The Pritchard-Andrews Company of Ottawa, Limited,” with J. A. Seybold as President and Henry Thomas Pritchard as Secretary-Treasurer and Manager, with their head office at 264 Sparks Street, Ottawa. Mr. Pritchard is the son of William Pritchard, cabinet manufacturer, of Bishopgate Street, London, England, and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Pritchard, and received his education in a boarding school in London. Having served his time to engraving in England, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and, arriving in Ottawa, Ontario, has made that city his home ever since. In 1887, Mr. Pritchard married Margaret Ramsay Black, daughter of John Black, of Hamilton, Ontario. Four sons and four daughters have blessed the union—Walter, Elizabeth Ann, Harold, Ernest, John, Margaret, Emily and Edith. Mr. Pritchard is an Anglican in religion and a Unionist in politics. He resides at Eastview.

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=Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E.= (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), son of Hon. Joseph O. Arsenault, Senator, and Gertrude Arsenault, his wife. Born at Egmont Bay, P.E.I., on July 28, 1870. Educated at St. Dunstan’s College, Charlottetown, and St. Joseph’s University, Memramcook, N.B. Studied law with McLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, barristers, Charlottetown, and with the Hon. (now Sir) Chas. Russell, London, England. Called to the bar in 1899, and has successfully practised his profession at Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I. Was first elected to the Legislature of the province of P.E.I. in 1908. On the accession of Liberal-Conservative Government in 1911 appointed a member of the Government. Re-elected in 1912 and 1915. On elevation of the leader of the Government, Hon. J. A. Mathieson, to the Supreme Court Bench of the Province, was called on by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government, which he did, and became President-in-Council and Attorney-General. Re-elected in 1917. The subject of this sketch was married on November 5, 1907, to Bertha R., daughter of Captain Frank Gallant, of Tignish, P.E.I., and is the father of six children. He is a Roman Catholic in religion, and a member of the Conservation Commission of Canada.

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=Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, M.P.P.=, is Minister of Agriculture and Provincial Treasurer for the Province of Saskatchewan, and one of the youngest and ablest of the public men of the West. He was born at Croft, Leicestershire, England, on July 31, 1885, the son of Samuel and Katherine (Hall) Dunning. His father was a farmer, and he was educated in the public schools of the Motherland. In 1903, as a boy of seventeen, he settled in Saskatchewan, and engaged in farming at Beaverdale in that province, an industry which he has ever since conducted on a large scale. He is one of the most prominent of those who organized the movement in the West for the betterment of agricultural conditions, and, in 1910, became a Director of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Association. He was also its Vice-President from 1911 to 1914. In 1911, he organized the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, and acted as general manager of this remarkably successful enterprise from its foundation until 1916. From 1911 to 1916, he was a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, and, in 1918, served on the Canada Food Board organized in connection with the war as Director of Food Production. Earlier, in 1913, he was a member of the Royal Commission appointed by the Government of Saskatchewan to investigate the question of agricultural credits, and also that of grain markets in Europe. He has also been a frequent contributor to the press on such subjects, his vast fund of expert knowledge making him an especially welcome contributor. In 1916, he resigned his position as general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevators to enter the Legislature of that Province. He was elected for the riding of Kinistino by acclamation. At the general elections of 1917, he was returned for Moose Jaw County. After his first election he was appointed Provincial Treasurer in the Martin administration, having been sworn in on October 20, 1916. Exactly one year later, he was also appointed Minister of Railways, and in addition on May 16, 1918, he became Minister of Telephones. On the rearrangement of portfolios, February 15, 1919, he retained his old portfolio of Provincial Treasurer, and became Minister of Agriculture as well, a step that was applauded by the whole farming community. He is a Liberal in politics and a Presbyterian in religion, and a member of the Assiniboia Club, Regina, and the Wascana Country Club. His favorite recreation is golf. On July 3, 1913, he married Ada, daughter of John Rowlatt (deceased) of Nassington, Northants, England, and has one son and one daughter. His home is at 2150 Retallack Street, Regina, Sask.

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=Williams, the Right Rev. Lennox Waldron, Lord Bishop of Quebec, M.A. (Oxon.), D.D.=, is the only son of the late Right Rev. J. W. Williams, D.D., fourth Bishop of the same diocese. He was born at Lennoxville, while his father was headmaster of Bishop’s College School, on November 12, 1859. His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anna Maria Waldron. He received his earlier education at Bishop’s College School, from which institution he went to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he received his degree of B.A. in 1882, and his M.A. in 1887. In 1899 he received the degree of D.D. from Bishop’s College University. His first charge as a clergyman was that of curate in St. Matthew’s Church, of Quebec, while the Rev. Charles Hamilton (afterwards Bishop of Ottawa and Archbishop)—was its rector. A vacancy occurring in the rectorship of that charge, the Rev. Lennox Williams was selected to fill it. In 1899 he was promoted to be Dean of the Cathedral and Rector of Quebec. In 1890 he was unanimously elected Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario, but felt obliged to decline. On the death of Bishop Dunn, he was elected Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec. As a native of the Province of Quebec, he has been identified with the religious life of Quebec and the Eastern Townships during his lifetime. During his ministry he has always taken an active interest in the schools and colleges of the diocese, having been for years a member of the corporation of Bishop’s College, Lennoxville, Chairman of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners of Quebec City, and a Director of the High School. While he was Dean of the Cathedral, he was chosen a delegate to the Pan-Anglican Congress held in London, England, in 1908; and, in 1910, he again took part in the Anglican Church Congress held at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1887 he married Miss Caroline Annie Rhodes, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel William Rhodes, at one time Minister of Agriculture for the Province of Quebec. The Bishop and Mrs. Williams had four children, viz., James William, who, after taking his degree at Oxford, joined the Canadian Army in the great war, and was killed in action at the battle of the Somme; Violet Mary; Gertrude, wife of Colonel R. O. Alexander, D.S.O.; Sydney Waldron, gentleman cadet at R.M.C., Kingston.

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=Margeson, Joseph Willis, Lieut.-Col.= (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) son of Otis A. Margeson (English) and Jennie Cahill (Irish). Was born on April 2nd, 1880, at Harborville, King’s County, Nova Scotia. Educated at Berwick High School; the Provincial Normal School, Truro; Acadia University, Wolfville; and Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, from which latter institution he graduated in 1908 with the degree of LL.B. Was principal of Berwick High School 1903-4. Also taught at South Berwick, Waterville and Lakeville. Married Sept. 16, 1908, to Mary Gertrude, daughter of Duncan McIntosh of Truro, Nova Scotia, and has two daughters, Doris Gwendolyn and Olive Gertrude, born Sept. 26th, 1910, and Nov. 10th, 1911, respectively. He is a barrister-at-law, and High Counsellor of the Independent Order of Foresters. He is also a member of the Masonic Order, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Ancient Order of Foresters. In religion he is a Baptist. He contested the riding of Lunenburg in November, 1909, against the Hon. A. K. MacLean, Attorney-General, at a by-election for the Provincial Legislature, but was defeated. First elected to the Provincial Legislature at the general election June 14th, 1911, and re-elected in 1916 with a largely increased majority. He resigned his seat in November, 1917, to contest his constituency as a Unionist candidate for the Federal House, but was defeated after one of the most bitter contests in the Province of Nova Scotia. Col. Margeson polled the largest vote he ever received. His opponent was a strong anti-conscriptionist. He has been prominently identified with the Canadian Militia, being Lieutenant of the 75th Regiment, 1910, Captain in the 25th Nova Scotia Overseas Battalion, December 1914, with which unit he went to France. Promoted to the rank of Major, June, 1916, and appointed Inspector of Pay Accounts and Records, C.E.F. In April, 1917, Lieut.-Col. Margeson was appointed President of “The Pay and Allowance Board,” with headquarters at Ottawa. In December, 1918, he was promoted Lieut.-Col., and in January, 1919, his name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for valuable services rendered in connection with the war. He is a Director of The News Company, publishers of “The Daily News” and “The Weekly News,” Lunenberg, Nova Scotia. He is also Vice-President of the G.W.V.A., Ottawa.

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=Thornton, Hon. Robert Stirton, M.P., M.B., C.M., LL.D.=, Minister of Education for the Province of Manitoba, is one of the educational leaders of Western Canada, though not a native of this country. He was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 8, 1863, the son of David and Mary (Gavin) Thornton. His parents decided that he should adopt the career of a physician, and after a good general education in his native city at Heriot’s Hospital school, he entered Edinburgh University, and graduated in 1884 with the degree of M.B., C.M. In the same year he came to Canada, and commenced the practice of his profession at Deloraine, Manitoba. He became well-known throughout the province, and, in 1896, was elected President of the Manitoba Medical Council; and, later, President of the Medical Council of Canada. Among other matters in which he interested himself was that of horticulture, a neglected pursuit in the western country, and became recognized as a pioneer horticulturist of the prairies, and an inspiration to others to adopt such a hobby. He became identified with the Liberal party, and, in 1907, was elected to the Manitoba Legislature for Deloraine. Though defeated in 1910, he was again elected in 1914, and also in the general elections of 1915, which resulted in the overthrow of the Roblin administration. He had taken a very strong stand against the indifference of the authorities to school problems; and when Hon. Mr. Norris was called upon to form a government, he entrusted to Dr. Thornton the portfolio of Education, which, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, was perhaps the most important within the Premier’s gift. In no section of the world is the problem of education more difficult, owing to the great number of nationalities represented in the numbers of unlettered immigrants that poured into Manitoba in the years preceding the great war. With the problem of making the children of these newcomers good Canadians, conversant with the language and institutions of the land of their adoption, Dr. Thornton grappled, in 1915, and three and a half years later it was the testimony of the Winnipeg “Tribune,” that the change of government had been worth while, if only for what had been accomplished in making the schools of Manitoba Canadian. Before he became Minister of Education, large numbers of the public schools were nondescript, and breeding centres of foreign speech and ideals. In a determined and unflinching way, Dr. Thornton put into action, through the machinery of the schools, the ideals of true Canadianism, and for the first time enforced the law with regard to an English education for every child of school age in Manitoba. As a result of his policies, other western provinces have followed his example, and many educationists of the western United States look to Manitoba’s system of dealing with the foreign problem in education as a model. Latterly, Dr. Thornton has taken a strong stand against immigration of the old indiscriminate sort, and proclaims the doctrine that anyone who comes to Canada must be prepared to shoulder all the responsibilities, with the privileges, duties, and rights of Canadian citizenship. By the many advocates of these new views he is looked up to as a leader. In recognition of his services, Queen’s University (Kingston) some time ago conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. Dr. Thornton is a Presbyterian in religion, and a member of the Masonic Order. On April 30, 1889, he married Mary, daughter of Robert Johnston, Princeton, Ont., and has no children. He resides at Winnipeg and at Deloraine, Manitoba.

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=Bailey, Charles Frederick=, Agricultural Commissioner for the Province of Ontario, is, singularly enough, a native of the Maritime Provinces. He was born at Kentville, Nova Scotia, in 1880, and his mother, who still survives, is now Mrs. P. Innes of that town. He was educated in King’s County High School, Kentville, and had a practical insight into agriculture as a lad on a Nova Scotia farm. In 1902 he resolved to qualify himself on the scientific side of agriculture and entered himself at the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, Ont., which holds a standard position throughout North America. From 1904 to 1907 he was engaged largely in commercial work related to this basic interest of the country’s prosperity and returned to the O.A.C. in the latter year. In 1909 he received from its affiliated Institution the University of Toronto, the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture. At that time the Ontario Department of Agriculture was looking about for expert young men to carry on the work of agricultural instruction and development and on receiving the above degree Mr. Bailey was in June, 1909, appointed Live Stock Specialist for Ontario. He brought a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge to bear on his task and in 1912 was promoted to the post of Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture by the late Hon. James Duff. A few years later the office of Commissioner of Agriculture was created in order to place a permanent official of expert knowledge in charge of policies for the betterment of agriculture in this province. Mr. Bailey’s grasp of all the problems of his subject is exceptional and he holds a high reputation as an expert in other states and provinces. As a young man he was a Captain in the King’s County (N.S.) Regiment, but has always eschewed politics. In religion he is a member of the Church of England, and some years ago married Louise D., daughter of David Hogg, Perth, Ont. He has had three children, of whom one, a boy born in 1915, survives. His address is 164 Walmer Road, Toronto.

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=Dalley, Frederick Fenner=, President of the F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited, Hamilton, Ont., and subsidiaries, was born in Hamilton, April 11, 1883, the son of Fenner Frederick Dalley (former President of the F. F. Dalley Co., Limited), who died in 1913, and his wife, Mabel (Forster) Dalley. He received his education at the Hamilton public schools and Collegiate Institute. He married Ethel Hazel Gibson, daughter of the late Samuel Gibson, of Caledonia, February 21, 1914, and has two sons, Fenner Frederick Dalley, born June 1, 1915, and Samuel Gibson Dalley, born September 17, 1916. Mr. Dalley is President of the F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited, Hamilton (the parent organization); President Dalley Products, Limited, Hamilton; President of F. F. Dalley Co. of Canada, Limited, Hamilton; President of F. F. Dalley Co. of New York, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.; President S. M. Bixby & Co., Inc., New York (plants Brooklyn, N.Y. and Indianapolis, Ind.); Director and Treasurer The Thermokept Products Corporation, New York; Chairman and Treasurer Perfect Vacuum Canning Co., New York; and Chairman and Treasurer Thermokept, Limited, Hamilton, Ont. As parent Company, the F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited, control in the Dalley Co., founded in 1846, manufacturers of the well known “2 in 1” shoe polishes and other specialities, and the Bixby Company of New York, founded in 1864, the two largest individual manufacturers of shoe polish in America, in addition to which they control many other specialities and staple lines. The Corporation conducts five factories and eighteen branch offices, extending from coast to coast in Canada and the United States. The Corporation’s spacious offices are centrally situated at No. 50 James Street South. Mr. Dalley’s clubs are: Hamilton, Thistle, Tamahaac, Royal Hamilton Yacht, Caledon Mountain Trout, Hamilton Golf and Country, Seaview Golf, Absecon, N.J., Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., Canadian, New York City. He is a member of the Hamilton Board of Trade and of the Canadian Manufacturers Association; of St. George’s Society, and the A.F. and A.M.; and is an Anglican. Mr. Dalley has a pleasing personality and great efficiency, necessary in the direction of a business with such extensive ramifications as that of which he is the head. He held a commission as Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royal Regiment in 1906. Golf is his chief recreation. His residence is at “Wynnstay,” Ancaster, Ont., on the mountain a short distance out of Hamilton.

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=Stapells, Richard A.=, is one of the best known figures in the business and social life of Toronto, where he was born on February 12, 1879, the son of Richard George and Susan (Carruthers) Stapells. He was educated in the Toronto Public Schools and commenced his business career with the firm of Caldecott, Burton & Spence, from which so many successful Canadian business men have graduated. About 1900 he left the employ of that firm to pay a visit to England and engaged in the commission business in London for some two years. On his return to Toronto in 1902 he purchased and incorporated the business now known as the McElroy Manufacturing Company, Limited, makers of “Royal Garments,” with offices at 47 Simcoe Street, Toronto, of which he is President and Managing Director. Despite the fact that he is a most successful business man who had won success at an age when many men are but on the lower rungs of the ladder, Mr. Stapells’ general interests are remarkably wide and his artistic tastes exceptional. His chief hobby is music, for which he has a great natural talent. As a boy he was an accomplished violinist and a member of the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the late Dr. F. H. Torrington. At the age of fifteen he was a member of the violin section of the great orchestra formed for the Festival in connection with the opening of Massey Hall in 1894. Later he obtained vocal instruction with the best masters in London, England, and New York, and for several years has been baritone soloist of the Church of the Messiah (Anglican), of which he is a member, and a lay delegate to the Anglican Synod, representing Church of Messiah. He was for some years also a very enthusiastic member of the executive of the National Chorus, a celebrated Toronto choral organization. In social and patriotic work he is equally active. He has long been a prominent member of the Empire Club of Canada, Toronto; was one of its vice-presidents in 1913-14 and President 1918-19. In the latter capacity he has induced many eminent men to come to Toronto and address the public on questions of the day, and made the Club one of the most vital organs of opinion in the Dominion. He is a life member of York Pioneer and Historical Society; life member of St. George’s Society; life member of the Canadian Red Cross Society, member of the Executive Committee, Canadian Defence League; member of the Executive, Overseas Club, and member of the Navy League of Canada, in connection with all of which he was active in promoting patriotic movements during the war and the succeeding repatriation period. Is a Trustee of Queen’s University. He is also a member of the Toronto Board of Trade, member of the Canadian Manufacturers Association (an Executive officer thereof in 1914), member of the Royal Colonial Institute and the Canadian Institute; a past president of the Dufferin School Old Boys’ Association; and belongs to the following clubs: Strollers’, National, Royal Canadian Yacht, and charter member of the Eastbourne Golf Club. With all his manifold activities Mr. Stapells is one of the most affable and well-poised men in the city of Toronto. In politics he is a Conservative-Unionist. In July, 1902, he married Pauline Edwina, daughter of William C. Harvey, and has two sons and four daughters. He resides at 99 Roxborough St. East, Toronto, and has a summer home, “Deancroft,” at Jackson’s Point, Lake Simcoe, Ont.

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=Weld, Edmund= (London, Ont.), Barrister, is the member of a well-known English county family, his grandfather having been the Rev. Joseph Weld, Rector, Tenterden, Kent. His father, the late Wm. Weld, was the founder and owner of the “Farmer’s Advocate,” London, Ont. The subject of this sketch was born at Delaware, Ont., in 1859, and educated at London, Ont., where he became a Barrister, in 1884, and successfully practised his profession, as also at Toronto. He has been an Alderman and a member of the Public Library Board of his native town, also President of the Western Ontario Bowling Association. In 1907 Mr. Weld was appointed to his present position as Deputy Clerk of the Crown, Registrar of the Surrogate Court and of the County Court, Middlesex County, Ont. He married Gertrude Isobel, daughter of Richard Gibson, Delaware, Ont., in 1890. He has a family of five, viz.: Helen G., Constance G., Rowena G., Hume G., and Stanley G. He is a member of the London Club, a Conservative in Politics, and a member of the Church of England.

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=Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe=, is one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, to which position he was appointed August 11, 1911. Mr. Brodeur was born at Beloeil, Quebec, August 21, 1862. He is the son of Toussaint Brodeur, a patriot of 1837, and of Justine Lambert. He was educated in the College of St. Hyacinthe, was graduated LL.B. at Laval University, and, in 1904, received the degree of LL.D. from that university. Called to the bar in 1884, he was in 1899 created a K.C. He has written largely for the press, and, in 1896, was editor of “Le Soir.” In 1891, Mr. Brodeur was elected to the House of Commons for Rouville, Quebec. He was re-elected in 1896, and became Deputy-Speaker of the House, and on his re-election in 1900 was appointed Speaker. He was re-elected at the next two general elections, viz., in the elections of 1904 and 1908. Mr. Brodeur gained much prominence owing to his keen knowledge of parliamentary procedure, and while Speaker was noted for the able and dignified manner in which he gave his decisions on all questions that came before him for solution. Before entering Parliament, Mr. Brodeur had gained an enviable reputation in the legal profession, and, as a member of the House of Commons—he being a fluent and eloquent speaker in both English and French, and one who had studiously labored to acquire a masterly knowledge of parliamentary procedure—he soon rose in the estimation and confidence of his fellow members; and his affability in politics, as in social life, made him a great favorite. In 1904, Mr. Brodeur was called to the Laurier Cabinet, and was sworn in as Minister of Inland Revenue. In 1906, on the death of Hon. Raymond Prefontaine, Mr. Brodeur was transferred to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and when the Department of Naval Service was organized he was appointed head of it. It was Mr. Brodeur who was the author of the first Naval Bill introduced in the Canadian Parliament in 1910, calling for the organization of the Navy. It was Mr. Brodeur who introduced in Parliament a Bill against the American Tobacco Trust, which proved successful in checking the methods the Tobacco Company wanted to employ in Canada. The success resulting from the passing of this legislation attracted the attention of the people of Canada, and even the United States press commented favorably upon it. Taking a keen interest in navigation in all Canadian waters, Mr. Brodeur was instrumental in having established along the St. Lawrence River innumerable aids to navigation which have made that river, night or day, or in fog, navigable. In 1907 and 1911, Mr. Brodeur was a member of the Imperial Conference at London, and, by Imperial Order-in-Council of August 8, 1907, Mr. Brodeur was appointed by the King one of the joint-plenipotentiaries to negotiate the first treaty which has been exclusively negotiated by Canadians or representatives of any other sister nations of the Empire, viz., the Franco-Canadian Treaty. In 1909, Mr. Brodeur represented Canada at the Imperial Defence Conference, and was Canada’s representative to the Washington Conference held in pursuance of the decision of the Hague Tribunal on the North Atlantic fisheries. Mr. Brodeur was created an officier of the Legion d’Honneur in 1908. He is one of the Governors of the Notre Dame Hospital. In 1887, Mr. Brodeur married Emma Brillon, daughter of J. R. Brillon, notary, of Beloeil. He has four sons and one daughter. One of his sons was during the war a Lieutenant in the Imperial Navy. Mr. Brodeur is a member of the following clubs: Hunt, Rideau, Rivermead, of Ottawa, Montreal (Montreal), Winchester (Montreal), and Country Club of Montreal. He resides at 229 Chapel St., Ottawa.

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=Côté, Narcisse Omer, I.S.O.=, Controller of the Lands Patents Branch and Registrar of Dominion Lands Patents, Department of Interior, is a descendant of Jean Côté, a native of France (being the eighth generation of this ancestor residing in Canada), one of the first settlers of Quebec, having been married there in 1635, to Anne, daughter of Abraham Martin, the owner of a piece of ground in Quebec known as the plains of Abraham. Entering the Department of the Interior in the Canadian Civil Service in 1879, which Department was then presided over by the late Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, K.C.B., Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Mr. Côté soon made himself an attentive, valuable and trusted employee. He rapidly rose from one station to another until 1904 when he became chief clerk, in 1906 registrar of Dominion Land Patents and chief of the Lands Patents Branch, and in 1913 controller. Mr. Côté was a member and secretary of the Royal Commission on the claims of half-breeds in the North-West Territories, now comprising the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, during 1885, 1886, 1887, and chairman in 1900 of the Royal Commission on claims of the half-breeds of the Provisional District of Saskatchewan, and of persons who had served as scouts, or otherwise, during the Rebellion of 1885. Mr. Côté is the author of many valuable publications, some, if not all, of which will remain for all time to come as useful reference for historical, parliamentary, and other purposes, and which, as the years pass, will increase in value and become indispensable. The following are to be found among his literary works already published: “Political Appointments, Parliaments, and the Judicial Bench in the Dominion of Canada 1867 to 1895,” published in 1896; Supplement thereto up to 1903, published in 1903; Volume II. to the original work, for period 1896 to 1917, published in 1917; “Appendix 1865 to 1867 and Index,” published in 1918, to his father’s work published in 1866, entitled “Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1865.” The whole series providing an indispensable record for present and future reference of public men and public events in Canada during the last seventy-six years, 1841 to 1917. Mr. Narcisse Omer Côté, I.S.O., was born in Quebec, September 14, 1859. He is the son of the late Joseph Olivier Côté, a notary public for the Province of Quebec, and clerk of H.M.’s Privy Council for Canada, and Marie Julie Léocadie Leprobon. He was educated at de la Salle Commercial Academy, Ottawa, and the University of Ottawa. On the occasion of the coronation of His Majesty King George the Fifth, in 1911, Mr. Côté was created a Companion of the Imperial Service Order. In 1907, Mr. Côté married Mabel Edna, daughter of the late Hon. Désiré Girouard, D.C.L., Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. For several years, Mr. Côté was connected with the Canadian militia; and was formerly captain in the Governor-General’s Foot Guards. Mr. Côté is a member of the Rideau Club and the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and resides at 54 Russell Avenue, Ottawa, Ont.

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=Bole, David W.=, President National Drug and Chemical Company of Canada, Limited, with head office in Montreal, was born in the county of Lambton, Ont., February 15, 1856, the son of James Bole, a farmer, and Ann Murdock Bole, his wife. He was educated at the Watford Public School and Woodstock College, and graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy in 1880, and on March 3 of that year married Isabella Lennox, daughter of Thomas Lennox, merchant, of Thedford, Ont. He has three children, the sons being Frederick H. Bole and David L. Bole, President and Managing Director respectively of the Mutual Elevator Co., Fort William, Ontario, and a daughter, Florence, wife of W. D. Muirhead, of Fort William. Mr. Bole moved to Regina, Sask., in 1882, and established the first drug store in the north-west between Brandon, Man., and Kamloops, B.C. He was a member of the Provisional School Board in Regina before schools were established by law, and also President of the Board of Trade. In 1889, he moved to Winnipeg where he established a wholesale drug house, and built up an extensive business. He was elected in 1906 President National Drug and Chemical Co., with head office in Montreal, and branches in all of the leading cities of Canada. This company is one of the largest drug concerns in the British Empire, employing about $5,000,000 active capital. He was elected by acclamation to the Winnipeg School Board for eight years, during three of which he was chairman. For thirteen years he was a member of the Council of the Winnipeg Board of Trade, and one year its President. Mr. Bole was elected member of the House of Commons for Winnipeg at the general election in 1904, but declined to be a candidate in 1908. Since taking up his residence in Montreal, he has accepted no public office, except as a member of the Council of the Board of Trade. He is a member of the Montreal Club. Presbyterian; Liberal. His address is 34 St. Gabriel St., Montreal, Quebec.

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=Wetherell, James Elgin, B.A.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at Port Dalhousie, Ont., September 20, 1851. Son of James S. Wetherell and Jane (Hilts) Wetherell, both of U.E. Loyalist descent, his mother being a sister of the Rev. Joseph H. Hilts, the well-known pioneer preacher. Mr. Wetherell was educated at the Newmarket Public and High Schools and at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1877 with medal in classics). After graduation he was Professor of Latin for two years at Woodstock College. In September, 1879, he became the first Principal of the newly created Collegiate Institute at St. Marys. In 1884 he moved to Strathroy, where in 1885 he became the first Principal of the newly created Collegiate Institute of that town. For five years he was Principal of the Strathroy Training Institute for High School teachers. He was President of the Ontario Classical Association in 1896, and President of the College and High School section of the Ontario Teachers’ Association in 1902. In 1905 he was elected a Senator of the University of Toronto to represent the High School teachers of the Province. This position he resigned in 1906 when appointed Inspector of High Schools and Collegiate Institutes for Ontario to succeed Dr. John Seath. During the ten years of his inspectorship he travelled extensively, not only in Ontario, but also in the United States and Europe. In January, 1917, he was appointed General Editor of Text-Books for the Ontario Department of Education. He has edited many High School text-books in Latin and English, as follows: Virgil, Book I.; Virgil, Book V.; Cicero, Cato Major; Cicero against Catiline; Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel; Selections from Longfellow; Selections from Wordsworth. After visiting Tennyson’s homes and haunts he edited in 1890 the first annotated edition of selections from Tennyson in Canada—a work which called forth a letter of appreciation and thanks from the poet. He has edited also four anthologies: Later Canadian Poems (1893); Later American Poems (1896); Poems of the Love of Country (1905); and the Great War in Verse and Prose (1919). He is also the author of two books, “Over the Sea,” and “Fields of Fame in England and Scotland” (1914). He has contributed numerous articles and occasional verse to magazines and journals, and was at one time a regular contributor of unsigned articles to a Toronto newspaper. He has often lectured on educational and literary topics. Mr. Wetherell married (1) Rebecca Randle, daughter of William Nason, Weston (died May, 1912); and (2) Margaret, daughter of Henry Smith, Thorold. He has three children, two sons and a daughter. He is a member of the Canadian Club and a charter member of the Champlain Society. He attends St. Paul’s Anglican Church.

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=Hamilton, Frank Kent, LL.B.=, General Manager of the McKittrick Properties, Limited, Hamilton, Ontario, was born in Stratford, Ont., March 19, 1887, and received his education in the local public and high schools and University of Manitoba, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1910, and in the following year he graduated as a barrister. He married October 6, 1915, Fannie Irene Moodie, daughter of Honorary Lieut.-Col. J. R. Moodie, an extensive manufacturer, of Hamilton, Ont., and has a daughter, Fannie Margaret, born February 14, 1917, and a son, Kenneth Moodie, born June 29, 1918. He is a member of the Hamilton Golf Club, the Hamilton Club, the Glendale Golf Club, and his principal recreations are golf and tennis. He is a Presbyterian, and a Unionist-Liberal. With the exception of one year, his boyhood days were spent in Stratford, Ontario. This year was spent in Syracuse, New York, where his father went in November, 1897, to go into the wholesale shoe business. He died there in June, 1898, and his widow and four daughters and son returned to live in Stratford. His widow died in November, 1913. After matriculating in 1904, Mr. Hamilton spent two years in the men’s clothing business at Stratford, and left in May of 1906 for Western Canada, where he felt the prospects were better for working his way through for law. He articled to Norman P. Buckingham, then practising at Boissevain, Manitoba. In July, 1908, he went to Winnipeg, where he studied for a short time under Lieut.-Col. A. W. Morley, and from 1909 till 1911 he studied under the firm of Aikins, Robson, Fullerton & Coyne, the senior member of the firm being Sir James Aikins, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Mr. Robson later became Judge of the King’s Bench of Manitoba, and is now general counsel for the Union Bank of Canada. Mr. Fullerton is now Judge of the Court of Appeal, while J. B. Coyne is one of Manitoba’s most prominent counsel. Graduating in 1911, the partnership of Coyne & Hamilton was formed in January, 1912, which firm later became Coyne, Hamilton & Martin. Successful law practice was carried on under this name until May, 1918, when Mr. Hamilton came East to accept the General Managership of the McKittrick Properties, Limited, owners of some 700 acres of land within the limits of the city of Hamilton, which is now in the course of development as a residential area. In the winter of 1904 and 1905 he was one of the members of the Stratford Junior Hockey team, which won the Junior Championship of the Province of Ontario. In 1910 he was a member of the Varsity Hockey team of Winnipeg, holders of the Championship of Manitoba. The team challenged for the Allen Cup, emblematic of the Amateur Championship of the World, then held by St. Michaels’ of Toronto, but spring came before dates could be arranged for a play-off. He also belonged to the Law Hockey team, winners of the Inter-Collegiate Championship of the University of Manitoba, and though he has given up active athletics, still bears the stamp of an athlete. He is tall, fair, active, affable and enterprising in a marked degree. The family reside at 407 Queen Street South, Hamilton, Ontario.

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=Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, K.C.M.G.=, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia since 1914, is a native of the city of Toronto, but a British Columbian since early childhood. He was born on May 16, 1856, the son of the late Francis J. Barnard, who settled in that province during the Fraser River gold rush of 1859, and brought his family to permanently reside there in 1860. The elder Barnard subsequently became one of the strongest advocates of Confederation with the Dominion of Canada, and later, from 1879 to 1887, sat in the House of Commons as Conservative member for the old constituency of Yale-Kootenay. The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this sketch was Miss Ellen Stillman. He was educated at Hellmuth College, London, Ont. On returning to B.C., he, in 1879, became associated with the British Columbia Express Company of Victoria, B.C., and was promoted to the post of general manager in 1881, and president in 1882. For a considerable period he was prominent in connection with transportation interests. He was President of the Consolidated Railway Company of Vancouver, 1894-96, and Managing Director of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Limited, of London, Eng., 1898-1906. In 1906 he retired from active business. Despite his large commercial interests, he found time to devote to politics, and in 1886 and 1887 served as member of the Victoria City Council. In 1888, he was elected to the House of Commons for the Cariboo district as a Conservative, and continued to sit until 1896. His brother, Hon. George Henry Barnard, was also at one time a member of the House of Commons, and is now a Senator. In 1914, Sir Frank was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, a post he still holds at the time of writing, and was later created a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. During his term of office Sir Frank has been a leader in the patriotic activities in connection with the war, and Lady Barnard has proven a most valuable aid to him in the important social duties of his office. They were married on November 7, 1883, and prior thereto Lady Barnard was Miss Martha Loewen, daughter of the late Joseph Loewen, brewer, of Victoria. Sir Frank is a member of the following clubs: Union, Victoria; Vancouver, Vancouver; Royal Vancouver Yacht; Victoria Golf; Victoria Tennis; Royal Automobile, London, Eng.; and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto. He has no children, and his address is Government House, Victoria, B.C.

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