Part 11

=Brock, William Rees=, the late, was born on February 14, 1836, in the Township of Eramosa, near Guelph, Ontario. His father Thomas Rees Brock, was of an ancient English family who were landed proprietors near Colchester in the County of Essex. His mother was Eleanor Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson, of Rusheen, Queen’s County, Ireland. The young couple, aged respectively 17 and 21 years, were married at the Parish Church in Guelph and after the ceremony rode on horseback to their new home five miles away in “the wild woods.” After a few years of life on the farm Mr. Brock was persuaded that a man of his education and attainments could do better in the town and he removed to Guelph where he held several appointments as Town Auditor, Secretary of the School Board, Superintendent of the Government Road and Surrogate Court Clerk. In the fall of 1850, while out shooting in the woods, he was accidentally shot and died at his residence, Park Place, a few days afterwards, aged thirty-eight years, leaving his widow with nine children surviving. The stone house he built on the York Road is still standing. The subject of this sketch was the second child and eldest son. He immediately left the Guelph Grammar School and went into the law office of the Hon. Ferguson Blair, where he remained about a year, deciding to enter commercial life, in which he achieved so conspicuous a success. His first employment was in a general store in Caledonia. About 1854 he located in Toronto, being engaged with Scott & Laidlaw. He married on the 23rd of September, 1857, Margaret Anna, second daughter of Captain John Segur Diamond, formerly of Clonenagh, Queen’s County, Ireland, who came to Canada in 1834, and served through the rebellion of 1837 as Adjutant of the 2nd Gore Regiment. Capt. Diamond was at one time in the Royal Irish Constabulary and after his arrival in this country was engaged in business with Colonel Chisholm, of Oakville, and others, as lumbermen and vessel owners. He had died some nine years previously to his daughter’s marriage. After his marriage, Mr. Brock went into business in Guelph, but later sold out and entered the service of McArthur & Co., of Bowmanville, where he remained about four-and-a-half years, subsequently went to Ogilvy & Co., Montreal, wholesale merchants, was English buyer for that firm for some years; was made a partner and came to Toronto in 1871, and opened Ogilvy & Company’s Toronto branch. In 1877, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Brock, he started the business of W. R. Brock & Brother, at the corner of Bay and Wellington Streets, Toronto. In 1879 a partnership was formed with Messrs. F. Wyld and H. W. Darling, as Wyld, Brock & Darling. Mr. Darling retired in 1883, and Mr. Wyld in 1887. The firm of W. R. Brock & Company was turned into a joint stock company in 1897. The Montreal branch was started in 1899, and the branch at Calgary in 1905. Besides being President of the W. R. Brock Company, Ltd., he was a director of the Dominion Lands Colonization Co., the British Canadian Loan and Investment Co., Toronto Electric Light Co., Electrical Development Co., Ontario Accident Insurance Co., Toronto General Trust Corporation and the Dominion Bank. He was also President of the British American and Western Assurance Companies, the Stanstead Granite Quarries Company, London Electric Light Company, and the Canadian General Electric Company. Mr. Brock was one of the founders of the “Empire” newspaper, Toronto, and served as President of the company until its amalgamation with “The Mail” in 1895. For years he was President of the Toronto Conservative Association and sat in the House of Commons for Centre Toronto in the Conservative interest from 1900 to 1904. Mr. Brock was also a director and a leading spirit in many philanthropic organizations. He was a founder and President of the Toronto Humane Society, a life member of the Council of Trinity University and of Upper Canada College, and benefactor of both institutions. He was a member of the congregation of St. James’ Cathedral, and from 1883 to 1890 was a churchwarden. His clubs were: Toronto Club, York Club, Albany Club, Toronto Hunt Club, Toronto; The Rideau Club, Ottawa; and St. James’ Club, Montreal. His surviving children are Lt.-Col. Henry Brock, Lt.-Col. R. A. Brock, Mr. W. L. Brock, and the Misses Lilian, Gertrude, and Muriel Brock. Mr. Brock died at his residence, 21 Queen’s Park, Toronto, on November 1, 1917. He was almost eighty-two years of age, and actively engaged in business up to within a few days of his death. Although advanced in years Mr. Brock retained his keen business acumen right through and served to the last in an advisory capacity to the directors of the W. R. Brock Company. By virtue of exceptional ability, organizing genius, hard work, adaptability, generosity and an appreciative attitude toward those in his employment, he was able to develop one of the outstanding mercantile houses of the Dominion. He held the esteem of the merchants in practically all the primary markets of the world. In Canadian industry he was declared to be an international figure. The memory of William Rees Brock will long live as a man noted for his commercial integrity, splendid philanthropy, and public enterprises. He was endowed with a winning personality, and his influence in public affairs was always for good. He was a staunch supporter of British Connection, and believed in promoting closer trade relations between Canada and the Mother Country. He lived a long, useful, and upright life, an inspiration to others, who would merit the approval of their fellows, and the close of a career so full of years and honors was regarded as a public loss.

=Dwyer, William Henry=, President of W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd., general grain and produce dealers and exporters, 49 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, is one of the capital’s busiest and most active men. His early life was spent on the farm at Thurso, Que., entered the employ of W. C. Edwards & Company, Limited, at Rockland, Ont., in 1882, to learn the lumber business, in whose employ he remained until May, 1890, when he left this company and removed to Thurso, Que., where he operated, successfully, a steam ferry and cartage business, which developed in 1902 into a hay and grain business, in a small way. The growth of this business made it necessary in 1898 for him to move to Ottawa. The increased business, occasioned principally by the South African War in 1900 and 1901, made it necessary to form a limited company, viz., the W. H. Dwyer Co., Ltd., which was formed in 1901, and since that time has developed to such an extent that some years ago offices were opened at Montreal and Fort William and, in 1917, a subsidiary company was formed in Winnipeg under the name of McGaw-Dwyer, Limited, to take care of the Western business. Mr. W. H. Dwyer was born at Bell’s Corners, County of Carleton, Ontario, May 6, 1861. He is the son of Dennis and Jane (Hall) Dwyer, and was educated at Thurso, Quebec. In 1885 he married Sara McDonald, Cumberland, Ontario, and has four daughters. He is President the Dwyer Elevator Co., President and Managing Director the Slinn-Shouldis Co., Ltd., Ottawa; President Forwarders, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President the Saskatchewan Lumber Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Prince Rupert Timber and Lumber Co., Ottawa; Vice-President and Managing Director Continental Bag and Paper Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Lawrence Dairy Supply Co., Ottawa; Vice-President Ottawa Contractors, Ltd., Ottawa; Director McKellar Townsite, Ltd., Ottawa; Vice-President McGaw-Dwyer Co., Ltd., Winnipeg; Vice-President J. W. Hennessy, Incorporated, Buffalo, N.Y. For the years 1913-1914 he was President of the Ottawa Board of Trade, and is a life Governor of the Protestant Hospital. He has supported the Red Cross and Patriotic causes in many ways during the war. He is a member of the Laurentian, Canadian and Rivermead Clubs. In politics he is Independent. In religion a Methodist, and his address is 91 McLaren Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Bristow, Michael George=, son of the late Rev. Ernest Bristow, of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, arrived in Ottawa in 1893. He was born at Bath, England, in 1879, where his mother still resides. His brother, Rev. Walter Bristow, soon after the opening of hostilities in the Great War brought about by Germany’s treachery, became Chaplain with the Imperial forces and started for France, while his sister Ethel offered her services and started to do her share as a nurse in a Military Hospital in France. In 1892 Mr. Bristow made Ottawa his home and took a position in the Civil Service. Ambitious, and feeling that such employment did not offer sufficient possibilities, he resigned and went into the typewriter business. Success crowned his first efforts and he built up a large volume of trade. In 1897 Mr. Bristow became the representative in Ottawa, Ont., of the Underwood Typewriter and dealer in typewriters’ supplies. He was one of Ottawa’s best-known business men. Being a lover of music, and possessing a fine voice, soon after his arrival in Ottawa Mr. Bristow became a member of St. John’s Anglican Church choir and, later, its president, and always, when solicited, freely gave his services as a singer for patriotic and charitable purposes. He was an all-round athlete, and gained fame in cricket and bowling; was the founder of the Ottawa Cricket Club, and president of the Bowling Club at Chelsea, Quebec; also president of the Chelsea Athletic Association. In 1905 he won the Massey-Harris Cup for all Canada in the National Tennis Competition, in which he represented the Ottawa Tennis Club. With marked ability as an amateur minstrel he organized and was head of a local Minstrel troop that has already given many concerts of exceeding merit. He was president of the Orpheus Glee Club, and a prominent member of the Masonic Order Sports. Before the departure of the 207th Battalion for Overseas he arranged a big concert for its benefit. To other organizations he rendered similar services, and was elected President of the War Veterans’ Choral Society. In 1897 he married Beatrice Bristow, daughter of Arthur Bristow, who came from England and joined the Dominion Civil Service. Three children have blessed the union—Joan, Reggie and Marjorie. Mr. Bristow died on December 19, 1917.

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=Braithwaite, Edward Ernest= (London, Ont.), President of Western University, son of Mark Mell Braithwaite and Elizabeth Eckardt; born at Unionville, Ont., March 14, 1865. Educated at Markham High School and Toronto University, McGill University, B.A. (with first class honors in Philosophy, ’86), Oberlin College, Ohio, (B.D., ’90), University of Chicago, and Harvard University, where he obtained the degree of M.A., 1901, and Ph.D., 1904. Married, November 10, 1892, to Ida Minnie Van Camp, daughter of Rev. Albert and Isabella Van Camp, of Cleveland, Ohio. Is the father of the following children: Harold Albert, born August 28, 1893; Lloyd Mell, born October 22, 1896; Ernest Scott, born December 8, 1899; Percy Bryant, born March 9, 1905; Carol Isabel, born December 25, 1906. Dr. Braithwaite is a noted educationalist, and has occupied many important positions in the prominent seats of learning in Canada and the United States, and has also filled many pastorates, among which may be mentioned the following: 1890-95, Pastor St. Louis, Mo. (Fountain Park Congregational Church); 1896-97, Graduate Student University of Chicago (working mainly with that eminent teacher, the late President Harper in the Department of Oriental Languages); 1897-1900, Pastor Tabernacle Church, Yarmouth, N.S., and Chairman of the Congregational Union of the Maritime Provinces, also Missionary Superintendent for the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; 1900-1901, began Ph.D. course in the Graduate Department of Harvard University, and at the end of the first year was called to Oberlin owing to the illness of Hebrew Professor. Returned to Harvard University the following year; 1901-02, Acting Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature, Oberlin College, Ohio; 1902-03, Graduate Student, Harvard University, from which he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1904 and was appointed Williams Fellow; 1903-08, Pastor of West Somerville, Mass.; 1908-11, Pastor of Northern Church, Toronto; 1912-13, Dean of Calgary College, Calgary, Alberta; 1914, was appointed President of the Western University of London, which position he now holds. Dr. Braithwaite is a member of the Rotary and Canadian Clubs, and has been a Liberal in politics although not especially identified with any parties. He is Chairman of the Military Committee of the C. O. T. C. of the Western University and takes great interest in Military matters and all amateur sports. He is also one of the Board of Directors of the London Chamber of Commerce and several other local organizations.

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=Bell, John Howatt, M.A., K.C.=, Barrister, Summerside, Prince Edward Island; was born at Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, on the 13th of December, 1846. His father, Walter Bell, emigrated from Dumfries, Scotland, in 1820, and settled at Cape Traverse. His mother was Elizabeth Howatt, daughter of Adam Howatt. Mr. Bell received his education at the Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and at Albert University, Belleville, Ont., at which latter institution he took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. He studied law as a profession with Thomas Ferguson, Q.C., Toronto, and was called to the bar of Ontario in 1874. He then went to Ottawa, and in partnership with R. A. Bradley, practised his profession for eight years in that City. In 1882, Mr. Bell removed to Emerson, Manitoba, and was admitted a member of the bar of Manitoba in 1882, and practised in Emerson for two years. In 1884 he went to Prince Edward Island, and having passed the necessary examination, he became a member of the bar of that Island, and has since resided at Summerside successfully engaged in his profession. For four years, he represented East Prince in the Federal Parliament, and in 1915, became a candidate for the Fourth District of Prince in the Local Legislature and being re-elected, was chosen Leader of the Liberal Opposition. On the 7th of April, 1882, he was married to Helen, daughter of Cornelius Howatt, of Summerside, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Masonic Order.

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=Gillespie, Professor Peter, M.Sc., C.E.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Grafton, Ont., April 17, 1873, the son of Peter Gillespie, proprietor of the Vernonville Flour Mills, who died in 1873, and his wife, Eliza Hossack, a native of Cromarty, Scotland, who still survives. Prof. Gillespie was educated at the Cobourg Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto and at McGill University, Montreal. His academic connection with the University of Toronto began in 1904, when he became Demonstrator in Applied Mechanics in the School of Practical Science, now the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Subsequently he became Lecturer and, in 1911, Associate Professor in the same Department, the position which he at present occupies. Since 1908 he has been a member of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, now the Engineering Institute of Canada, is at present a Councillor thereof and Chairman of the Toronto Branch. During the years of its active existence, 1908-1912, he was President of the Canadian Cement and Concrete Association, an organization devoted to the dissemination of authentic information concerning the uses of Portland Cement in building construction. To the transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and to the Technical press generally, Mr. Gillespie is an occasional contributor. In addition to the duties of his academic position, he devotes a part of his time to the practice of engineering and as designer or consultant has been identified with engineering projects in various parts of Canada. He has of late been actively engaged in the training of returned soldiers for the Invalided Soldiers’ Commission of Canada. In 1910 he married Mary Hope, daughter of Mr. M. O. Merritt, U.E.L., of Smithville, Ont., a retired farmer whose forbears came from Fishkill, Duchess County, New York, at the time of the United Empire Loyalist migration following the close of the American Revolutionary War. They have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Robert George. In religion Mr. Gillespie is a Presbyterian and in politics inclines toward Liberalism. He resides at 358 Davenport Road.

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=Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew=, Toronto, Principal of Ontario Veterinary College, 110 University Avenue, Toronto, was born in London, England, April 9, 1848. His parents were the late Lt.-Col. George John Grange, Sheriff, County Wellington, and Mary, daughter of Capt. Dawson. Although born in England, Mr. Grange’s education was obtained entirely in this country, first by private tuition, then at Dr. Tassie’s School, Galt, Ontario, and finally at Ontario Veterinary College where he graduated with the degree of V.S. in 1873, obtaining his M.S. in 1908, at Michigan Agricultural College. An ardent Imperialist, Mr. Grange was for many years a staff officer of Wellington Field Battery and Brigade of Artillery, and is a present member of the Canadian Military Institute, the Empire Club and the Canadian Club. In his profession he has always distinguished himself. From 1875 to 1882 he was a lecturer at Ontario Agricultural College; from 1883 to 1897 he was a professor Veterinary Science, Michigan Agricultural College; 1897 to 1899 he was principal Detroit Veterinary College; from 1899 to 1908 he was engaged in veterinary research work in New York State, and since then has been principal of Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto. He is a member of numerous veterinary and other scientific societies, a Fellow of A.V.M.A., a member of N.Y. Veterinary College Alumni Association, and an honorary member of Alpha Phi Society of Cornell. An Anglican in religion, Mr. Grange is married to Bessie, daughter of Lt.-Col. James Webster, registrar, Wellington County. Their union was blessed with three children, James Webster (deceased), Flight Commander E. Rochfort, D.S.C., R.N., holder of Croix de Guerre; and daughter, Maynard.

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=Morin, Victor, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), is the son of Jean Baptiste Morin, a lumber merchant of St. Hyacinthe, was born at St. Hyacinthe, Que., August 15, 1865, is a Notary and Professor of Law at Laval University, was educated at St. Hyacinthe College, Que., and Laval University, Montreal, graduating 1884, 1888, 1909 with the degrees of A.B., LL.D.; is the author of several books and articles on historical, literary, scientific, social and business subjects, and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, President of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and Vice-President of the Montreal Library Commission, President-General of the St. Jean Baptiste Society, President of the Association du Notariat Canadien, President Montreal Historical Society and Heraldic College, also member of the Antiquarian and Numismatic Clubs, of which he is vice-president, besides belonging to the Reform Club, Cercle Universitaire, St. Dennis Club, and several others; his favorite recreations are the study of books and curios. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and Liberal in politics; Past Supreme Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters, and member of many other fraternal societies. In business circles he is very active, being President, Vice-President or Director of several business and financial corporations. On January 12, 1893, he married Fannie Cote, the daughter of Hon. Daniel Cote, of Biddeford, Maine, and after her death married Alphonsine Cote, on May 5, 1896, the daughter of Victor Cote, of St. Hyacinthe, Que.; he is the father of the following children, namely, Lucien, Reginald, Marc, Andre, Gisele, Claire, Marie, Renee, Roland, Guy and Roger, besides two deceased.

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=Hastings, David= (Dunnville, Ont.), is the son of John and Mary Jane Hastings, born in Toronto, Ont., October 3, 1860. He received his education at the Toronto and Hamilton Public Schools and Hamilton Collegiate Institute. Mr. Hastings is the editor and publisher of “The Gazette,” the oldest paper in the County of Haldimand, which was established in 1852. It is a Conservative journal, published at Dunnville. In February, 1915, Mr. Hastings was appointed Police Magistrate for the Town of Dunnville and adjoining townships in succession to the late Dr. S. W. Brown. He is a member of the Typographical Union, the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Oddfellows, Independent Order of Foresters and also of the Orange Order. In religion Mr. Hastings is a Methodist. He married Rose, daughter of Frederick Shepheard, of Toronto, and is the father of two children: Frederick Clarke, born April 21, 1896, and Edward George, born Oct. 22, 1900.

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=Anderson, Frederic William=, of Kamloops, B.C., eldest son of the late William Anderson, who was Manager of the J. R. Booth Lumber Company for a number of years, was born at Ottawa, September 28, 1883. Educated at the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute, Ottawa, and McGill University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated in 1906 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. After spending a number of years on large construction works in different parts of Canada, Mr. Anderson went to Kamloops, where he actively engaged in the live stock industry and farming, and brought to bear upon the existing situation his splendid knowledge as a civil engineer, and being a keen irrigationist, developed and brought under cultivation large areas of land. He organized and was President of the Heffley Creek Water Users’ Association. He was elected at the general elections held in September, 1914, a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Province of British Columbia, as a Liberal over the former member, Mr. J. Pierson Shaw, by a majority of 569; was Deputy Whip, session 1917, and elected chief Government Whip Session 1918. Mr. Anderson married Marion Claire, daughter of George E. Carbould, K.C., ex-M.P., New Westminster, B.C., and is the father of two children, Francis Marion Carbould and William Patrick. He is a Lieutenant, Canadian Engineers, C.E.F.; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the Kamloops Club, University Club, Vancouver Kappa Alpha Society, and the Masonic Order.

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=de Tremaudan, A. H.=, Barrister (Winnipeg, Man.), was born at St. Chrysostome, Quebec, July 14, 1874. His parents are living at Montmartre, Sask.; father was a captain in the Franco-Prussian war, 1870, and is a direct descendant of Sire Beaumanoir, by whom he was related to LaFayette, the great French soldier, famous in American history. Mr. de Tremaudan was educated at the Clerical College of Guérande, France, and at Rennes University, France, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He is a gentleman of fine literary attainments, and has made a special study of all matters pertaining to the early history of Western Canada, and the Hudson Bay route. He founded and edited for two years (Dec., 1911, to Dec., 1913) “The Herald,” published at The Pas, Manitoba, and is chief editor of “La Libre Parole,” a French Weekly, published at Winnipeg. Mr. de Tremaudan is the author of numerous magazine articles, and brochures, which have been favorably received, among which may be noted “The Hudson Bay Route,” “Pourquoi Nous Parlons Français,” “Les precurseurs.” A number of addresses are in press under the title of “Le Sang Français.” A forthcoming work is entitled “The Riel Legend.” On Feb. 18, 1901, Mr. de Tremaudan married Madeleine, daughter of the late C. H. Bastien, a stained-glass decorative artist, who painted some of the priceless windows in the world-famous Cathedral of Rheims, France. His children, three sons and two daughters, are: Jean (1903), Alain (1905), Gilles (1909), Andree (1906), and Renee (1910). Mr. de Tremaudan is a Roman Catholic in religion and a member of “Le Canada” Club of Winnipeg. He is a Liberal in politics, has travelled extensively, and is widely read and well informed on all questions of National importance; a man of mature judgment and ripe experience.

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=Bethune, the Rev. Charles Jas. Stewart, M.A., D.C.L.=, the distinguished subject of this sketch, was born at West Flamboro’, Ontario, on August 11, 1838. He is the third son of the Right Rev. Alexander Neil Bethune second Bishop of Toronto, and Jane Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Hon. James Crooks. The Bethune family traces its lineage very far back in Scottish and French historical records. The first of the name who left Normandy for the British Isles came to Scotland in the reign of Malcolm the Third, a contemporary of William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century. The first of the family to come to Canada was the Rev. John Bethune, a U.E. Loyalist from North Carolina, and chaplain to a Highland regiment, who settled with his comrades in the county of Glengarry, Ontario, towards the end of the 18th century. He was the father of the late Bishop of Toronto and Dean Bethune, of Montreal, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Young Bethune was educated at private schools at Cobourg and Upper Canada College, Toronto. After leaving the latter institution he entered Trinity College, Toronto, and graduated therefrom in 1859 with first-class classical honors and the B.A. degree. He took his M.A. in 1861, and received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from his Alma Mater in 1883, in recognition of his zealous and worthy services at Trinity College School. He was ordained deacon in 1861 and priest in 1862, by the late Bishop Strachan of Toronto. He was curate until 1866, with his father, then Rector of Cobourg, with the exception of a short period spent in England in 1863-64, when he was curate at Carlton, near Selby, in Yorkshire. In 1866 he was appointed to the charge of the Credit Mission in the County of Peel, Ont., where he was instrumental in building the churches at Dixie and Port Credit. In September, 1870, he was appointed Head Master of Trinity College School at Port Hope. From a very small beginning he raised up this school to be one of the most widely known and successful in the Dominion. He had a staff of eight assistant masters, about 140 pupils, and large and handsome buildings with extensive grounds. He resigned the headmastership in 1899, and removed to London, Ontario, where he remained for seven years. During the greater part of that period he was curator and librarian of the Entomological Society of Ontario. He assisted in forming the London Horticultural Society and was its president for two years. Dr. Bethune gave much of his attention to scientific pursuits and he is well known in the United States and Great Britain, as likewise in Canada, as an entomologist. He was one of the founders of the Entomological Society of Ontario and its Secretary-Treasurer for seven years. He was president of the same society from 1870 to 1875, and has continued since to be a member of its council. He was entomological editor of the “Canada Farmer” for nine years, and editor of the “Canadian Entomologist” from its inception in 1868 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1909, when he was elected editor emeritus. He has written a large number of papers on Practical and Scientific Entomology in these and other publications, and contributed repeatedly to the annual report on insects presented to the Legislature of Ontario. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science and has attended its meetings at various places in the United States, is a member of several Canadian scientific societies and a corresponding member of scientific societies in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Davenport, Brooklyn, Halifax, and other places. He is also a member of the Corporation of the University of Trinity College. He was Honorary Clerical Secretary of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto from 1869 to 1871, and has been repeatedly elected a representative of the diocese at the meetings of the Provincial Synod in Montreal. He was a delegate from the diocese of Toronto to the general synod of the Church of England in Canada at Winnipeg in 1896, and was appointed clerical secretary of the Lower House in 1902, holding that position at the meetings in Montreal and Quebec and resigning at the Ottawa meeting in 1908; elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1892, and became President of Section 4 in the year 1900; was one of the original promoters of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto and filled the position of Warden for some years. On the first of June, 1906, he was appointed Professor of Entomology and Zoology at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, which position he still holds. He assisted in the formation of the American Association of Economic Entomologists and of the American Entomological Society; of the latter he is one of the original Fellows. He was elected President of the Entomological Society of Ontario for its Jubilee year, 1913. He is Honorary President of the Wellington Field Naturalists’ Club, of the Guelph Horticultural Society and of the Trinity College School Cricket Club. Since going to Guelph he has published bulletins on insects affecting fruit trees and vegetables of which several editions have been issued by the Department of Agriculture of Ontario. He has frequently visited England and travelled in the United States and Europe. Dr. Bethune has always been a member of the Church of England and associated with the “High Church” school of thought. He married on April 21, 1863, Alice, second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Forlong, K.H., of Toronto, late of Her Majesty’s 43rd Regiment of Light Infantry, and his wife, Sophia, daughter of the Hon. Henry John Boulton, of Holland House, Toronto. Mrs. Bethune died in July, 1898. Dr. Bethune has four children living. His eldest son, Arthur M. Bethune, is Manager of the Hamilton Branch of the Dominion Bank, and Reginald A. Bethune is an officer in the Civil Service at Kamloops, B.C. The two daughters are unmarried. An earnest and able worker for his church, a learned and deeply skilled votary in a wide and important branch of science, it has been given to few men whose names are written in this volume to accomplish so much and to accomplish it so well.

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=Kyte, George William= (St. Peters, Richmond County, Nova Scotia), son of John Kyte, native of Templemore, County of Tipperary, Ireland, and Elizabeth Robertson, English parentage, born July 10, 1864, at St. Peters. Educated at the public school of St. Peters, and at the University of St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, N.S., from which seat of learning he graduated. Studied law in the office of Colin F. McIsaac (for several years one of the Transcontinental Railway Commissioners, at Antigonish, N.S.), and was admitted to the bar Nov. 16, 1891. Married, July 5, 1893, to Tena, daughter of Valentine and Lydia Chisholm, of Heatherton, N.S. Appointed Clerk-Assistant of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, in Feb., 1892; re-appointed in 1895, 1898 and 1901; appointed Chief Clerk, Dec. 3, 1903. Resigned this appointment to become a candidate for the House of Commons for Richmond County at general election of 1908 and was elected; re-elected at general election in 1911. Created a King’s Counsel by the Government of Nova Scotia, April 16, 1908. Solicitor for the Municipality of Richmond County; school trustee for nine years, and is a member of the Board of School Commissioners for the County of Richmond. A Roman Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics.

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=Clark, John Murray, M.A., LL.B., K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at St. Mary’s, Ont., July 6, 1860, of Scottish descent, his parents being James and Isabella Clark. Educated at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall. His career at the University was particularly brilliant. He won the prize in Logic awarded by the late Professor J. P. Young, the Blake Scholarship on Constitutional Law, Economics and Jurisprudence, the McMurrich Medal in Natural Science and Gold Medal in Mathematics and Physics, and the prize on Minority Representation, graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1882, M.A. 1884, LL.B. 1891, and being called to the Bar in 1886, with honours, and winning the Law Society’s Gold Medal, since which time he has practised in Toronto where he is recognized as one of the leaders of the Bar and is head of the firm of Clark, McPherson, Campbell & Jarvis. Has been retained as Counsel in a large number of cases of great magnitude and importance, such as the Quaker Case, Ontario Express Company, Fisheries Case, and the Ophir case, and has frequently pleaded before the Privy Council in England. Appointed a K.C. in 1889; in early life was Mathematical Master of St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute and for several years Examiner in Physics, Toronto University, of which he was appointed as Senator in 1892. Is also Vice-President Toronto University Alumni Association. Formerly President Mathematical and Physics Society and University College Literary and Scientific Society. Few men in Canada have exhibited more scholarly attainments than the subject of this sketch, whose versatility in Science, Literature, as well as original research has been remarkable, and of great benefit. Notwithstanding the high place which Mr. Clark occupies in the field of letters and the wide knowledge he has of science and literature, he is widely known on account of his great abilities as a lawyer which have placed him in the front rank of the legal profession in Canada. Many of his cases have been of first-class importance and some of them of great public interest. Among the first in which he won a signal victory was that of Dorland and Jones, the famous Quaker Case from Prince Edward County, Ontario. The recent decision of the House of Lords, giving the “Wee Frees” the property of the Free Church of Scotland recalls the Quaker Case here. Mr. Clark argued before the Supreme Court at Ottawa that the Church had the right to make changes in its Constitution, even though that Constitution itself did not specifically authorize it to do so. The view was adopted by the United Free Church lawyers in Edinburgh in the case arising from the union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, and the Court of Session, the High Court of Justice sustained that view. The “Wee Free” (as the Free Church minority was commonly called), appealed to the House of Lords, and contrary to all expectation, won, and obtained possession of the vast property of the Church. The situation was so tense that a special Act of Parliament was passed to adjust conditions. In quite a number of constitutional cases reaching through the Canadian Courts to the Privy Council, Mr. Clark has figured, and invariably with success. The same is true regarding commercial cases and large mining cases in which a long and extended experience has given him such a mastery as few of his compeers possess. Quite recently the “Ophir” mining case, which he brought to a successful conclusion, through a tedious and tortuous course of litigation, ending in the Privy Council, has excited the attention of the legal profession and of the public, both because it decided the question of the Indian title so far as Ontario is concerned, and because a similar situation is becoming acute in British Columbia. Mr. Clark has made several notable speeches in England where he is regarded as an accomplished jurist, and few men are so well versed in the political and constitutional history of this Dominion or more fully seized of its great resources. The London “Times” and several other prominent English papers a few years ago referred in high praise to Mr. Clark’s speech on “Canada and the Navy” delivered before a notable gathering, including Lord Strathcona the late High Commissioner for Canada. Mr. Clark is one of the foremost mathematical authorities in Canada and his work has been commended by so high an authority as Lord Kelvin, while he is regarded both in this country and in England as an authority on Constitutional law. He has won distinction as an author, and has written several standard works and papers, among which may be mentioned “Law of Mines in Canada,” which was written in collaboration with the Hon. W. D. McPherson, Provincial Secretary of Ontario. “Company Law,” “The Ontario Mining Law,” “International Arbitration,” “Canada’s Future and the Empire,” “History of the Theory of Energy,” and “The Functions of a great University.” Has lectured on the “Value of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,” “Canada and the Navy,” etc. The work on Mining Law referred to is recognized as an authority on the subject dealt with, and has been highly praised by the Harvard Law Review of the Law Magazine of England as well as by the Canadian Press. The “Mining Journal” stated that “the book had the impress of clear and legal learning,” and the work has also been described as a monument of research, care and industry. Recently Mr. Clark has been elected President of the Royal Canadian Institute, founded by Sir John Lefroy (whose grandson, Lieut. Lefroy, gallantly fell on Vimy Ridge). In referring to the new President’s appointment “The Mail and Empire” said: “Mr. Clark well represents the best that we have in character, intellect, scholarship and public spirit. A distinguished graduate of Toronto University, the new President, far from leaving the avenues of learning, as some do when they graduate, has ever increased his stores, and has successfully striven not only to broaden and deepen his knowledge, but to devote it to the service of his fellow-men, as witness Mr. Clark’s strong and convincing advocacy of the Canadian Government availing itself of the great scientific attainments and progressive scholarship of men like Professors Macallum and McLennan. For many years one of the foremost advocates in Canada of that great constitutional change in Imperial relations which is to-day being forged on the anvil of war, Mr. Clark has been a powerful and sagacious leader in that movement on this side of the water. In the prosecution of that enterprise he has deservedly won the regard and friendship of some of the leading scholars and statesmen of our Empire.” The “Globe,” in the course of a favorable review, said that his Presidential Address on “The Reign of Law,” “will appeal to thoughtful readers as a scholarly contribution to a subject which derives fresh interest from the war.” Mr. Clark has given considerable study to the question of our gold supply which has proved a potent factor in the financing of the great war, and will be even a more important factor in the reconstruction period after the war according to the viewpoint of Mr. Clark, who takes the position that the increase in the production of gold be encouraged in every practical way. Politically, Mr. Clark has always been a member of the Liberal Party, and was formerly President of the Young Men’s Liberal Club of Toronto, but, in the Federal general elections of 1917 he supported the Union Government. He favors Canada remaining an integral portion of the British Empire, the utmost practicable extension of the principle of free trade, and the development of a vigorous Canadian National Sentiment. Married first Greta Helen Gordon, daughter of Rev. D. Gordon, and sister of “Ralph Connor,” 1890 (deceased 1894); second, Annie Macleod Anderson, daughter of late W. N. Anderson, Toronto, 1899 (deceased, 1910); third, Caroline Chaplin, daughter of late William Chaplin, St. Catharines; has three daughters, i.e., Mary Gordon (now Mrs. W. A. Riddell), Margaret Macleod, and Katie H. Burn. Is a member of the following clubs: Toronto, Ontario, British Empire (London), Engineers’ Club (Toronto), and belongs to A.F. & A.M. (Scottish Rite, Zetland). A Presbyterian in religion. Recreation, golf.

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=Flint, Thomas Barnard, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L.=, Ottawa, Ont., ex-clerk of the House of Commons, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, April 28, 1847, and was educated at Yarmouth and Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick. He received his B.A. in 1867; his M.A. in 1872; also LL.B. of Harvard University, 1871. He was called to the Bar in 1872; was appointed a commissioner of the Supreme and County Courts in 1873; was Sheriff of Yarmouth County from 1883 to 1887, and Assistant Clerk of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1887 to 1891. In 1891 he was elected to the House of Commons and was re-elected at the elections of 1896 and 1900. He was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, Nov. 11, 1902, and retired from that position at the beginning of session of 1918, owing to failing eyesight. In 1903 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law. He edited the 3rd and 4th editions of Bourinot Parliamentary Procedure. In 1874 he was married to Mary Ella Dane, a daughter of the late Thomas B. Dane, who for many years was an influential citizen of Yarmouth. Personally, Dr. Flint, an honorable man, with high ideals of the amenities of public life, liberally educated, and endowed with cultivated taste, entirely without prejudice of race or religion, well posted on public affairs, an efficient, unassuming, practical man, commanded the respect of Liberals and Conservatives alike, both as a member of the House of Commons and as clerk. Dr. Flint at one time was Vice-President of the Dominion Prohibition Alliance, and was one of the founders, and for many years vice-president of the Yarmouth Building and Loan Society, a most successful local business. After he was admitted to the Bar he rapidly became one of its leaders in his district. As a member of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was Chairman of Standing Orders from 1898 to 1902. During the Session of 1894-5 he moved resolutions in the House of Commons in favor of prohibition. In 1907 he was elected President of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. As a speaker, Dr. Flint proved to be a leading debater, forceful and pleasing in manner, ever giving evidence as an authority on every question which he took up. He is of New England ancestry, and the son of the late John Flint, ship owner, and Anne (Barnard) Flint. He is an Anglican in religion and a Liberal in politics. From 1897 to 1899 he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Nova Scotia. Upon his retirement from the Clerkship of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was by resolution of the House made an honorary official of the House and granted an annuity in recognition of his public services. He now resides in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.