Part 35

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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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=Hodgetts, Col. Charles Alfred, C.M.G., M.D.=, sanitary specialist, is the third son of the late George Hodgetts, of Toronto, and a grandson of the late Lt.-Col. Thomas Hodgetts, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment, and was born in Toronto, August 23, 1859. In 1896, Dr. Hodgetts married Elizabeth B. Salter, daughter of W. T. Salter, of St. John’s, Newfoundland. She died in March, 1909. He has two sons and three daughters. He was educated at the Provincial Model School, Toronto, and was awarded the Dufferin Medal at the Ontario College of Pharmacy, graduating with honours in 1875, at the Victoria University, graduating in 1886 as an M.D., C.M., and subsequently received the membership of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Hodgetts was house surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital 1886-7, and resident assistant surgeon at the Stafford Infirmary, England, 1888, and received his L.R.C.P., London, 1889. He received the first D.P.H. of Queen’s University in 1912. From 1891 to 1904 he was Medical Inspector of the Provincial Board of Health and Secretary and Deputy Registrar General of the Province of Ontario from 1904 to 1910. In 1910, he was offered the M.O.H. of the city of Toronto, but declined the appointment; subsequently he was appointed Medical Adviser of the Public Health Committee of the Commission of Conservation, with headquarters at Ottawa. Dr. Hodgetts has held the Honorary Treasurership of the St. John Ambulance Association, and is at present Honorary Secretary; also the Honorary Secretaryship of the Canadian Branch of the Red Cross Society from the time of its organization, and was most active during the war in South Africa, 1899-1900, in carrying out the work in Canada. He resigned from the office in 1910, and was elected the first Honorary Life Member. Sup. Presdt. Sons of England Ben. Soc., Canada, 1900-1; a Fellow Royal Sanitary Institute, 1905; an examiner, Royal Sanitary Institute, 1906; Fellow Royal Institute of Public Health; Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health of Great Britain; Hon. Vice-President Association Public Vaccinators, Great Britain; Member, International Commission on Bovine Tuberculosis, 1909; Member, Ottawa Commission to investigate the best source of water supply for Ottawa, and to suggest a plan of sewage disposal for that city, 1911; Life Member of the British Red Cross Society. He has served as 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Vice-President, American Public Health Association; Hon. Asst., 1903, Esquire, 1910, and Knight of Grace, 1912, Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Past President, Conference Executive; Officer, State and Prof. Boards of Health, Washington; President, Canadian Public Health Association of Canada, 1911-12; gazetted Lieut. A.M.C., present rank, Lt.-Col.; a founder and charter member of the Canadian Red Cross Society, St. John Ambulance Association, and the Canadian Public Health Association; author of numerous contributions to the press and of several pamphlets on public health. Represented Canada at International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, 1909; International Congress on Maternity and Child Welfare, Berlin, 1911; Conference on Pollution of International Waterways, Cleveland, 1912; and British and Overseas Dominion Conference on Child Welfare, London, England, 1913. The only medical member of the Trustees holding the charter of the Toronto School of Medicine for the Ontario Government. He is credited with being one of the foremost public health authorities in Canada and, as the “Montreal Gazette” has wisely pronounced, is “regarded everywhere as an authority on all subjects dealing with public health.” He was prominent with the Conservation Commission in urging the creation of a Dominion Department of Health, and carried out a campaign for the better housing of the people and for town planning. Dr. Hodgetts is thoroughly British, and believes that the maintenance of British connection is essential for the continuance of Canada’s progress. On mobilization, at Valcartier in August, 1914, O.C. in charge of Inoculation Column. Nearly 30,000 troops were inoculated, being the largest number ever inoculated on mobilization. In October, 1914, Dr. Hodgetts was appointed Hon. Canadian Red Cross Commissioner overseas, with the rank of Colonel, and left for the front. From London he organized and directed the activities of the Society overseas in England, France and the countries of the Entente. He was elected a member of the Joint War Committee of the British Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem for the full period of his residence overseas. In September, 1917, among the birthday honours conferred by King George at Buckingham Palace, the C.M.G. was given to Dr. Hodgetts in appreciation of his work, he having been mentioned in despatches for distinguished service. In April, 1918, he resigned the Commissionership of the C.R.C.S., and the Imperial authorities appointed him to the post of deputy Commissioner of Medical Service under the Imperial Ministry of National Services—one of the highest positions in the medical services of the Empire, and he subsequently served in Ireland as Assistant Commissioner. Dr. Hodgetts returned to Canada the following December, and was enthusiastically received by the members of the Great War Veterans’ Association, to whom he had rendered such attentive and efficient service overseas, that it had received the personal praise of the Commanders-in-Chief of the British and French armies. He received a personal letter of thanks from Queen Marie of Rumania, and the badge of membership of the Serbian Red Cross for his services to those allies. Dr. Hodgetts is a Protestant in religion, and his residence is 238 Argyle Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Member of the Rideau and University Clubs.

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=Macdonald, Sir Donald Alexander=, the oldest Major-General in the Canadian Army, upon whom fell the work of equipping the Canadian Forces during the continuance of the war of 1914, is now on the retired list. His responsibilities covered a wide field, embracing the clothing and equipment of all branches of the service, and in addition the housing, feeding, transport, of the mounted and postal services. Having served his country faithfully and with marked ability for fifty-four years, Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald, I.S.O., C.M.G., K.B., in January, 1918, retired from active service loaded with honours, decorations and distinctions, and carrying with him the high estimation of the Canadian people and of the Empire at large. The record of his devotion to duty and his ability to do those duties that fell to his lot will ever hold a prominent place in Canada’s military history. In 1863, Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald first became a member of the Canadian Militia when he joined the Rifle Company of Cornwall as Ensign. In 1865 he became Lieutenant of the 59th Regiment, and in 1866 Captain, in which capacity he served during the Fenian raids of 1866. In 1869 he became Adjutant, and in 1870 served in the Red River Expedition, and was awarded a medal and two clasps. In 1871 he became Major, and in 1877 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Then came in 1885 the North-West Rebellion, in which he distinguished himself, and was awarded a medal. In 1900 he was promoted to Colonelcy, and, having for some time been Chief Superintendent of Military Stores, in 1903 was appointed Director-General of Ordnance for Canada, and received the honour of I.S.O. In 1904 he was appointed Quartermaster-General of the Canadian Militia. In 1908 he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and in that year received his C.M.G., for his services in equipping the South African Contingent. In 1912 he was made a Major-General, and in January, 1918, was knighted by His Majesty King George V. In addition to the other distinctions that were accorded him, Sir D. A. Macdonald holds the Long Service Decoration and the honour of being the third military member of the Militia Council. Major-General Sir Donald Alexander Macdonald is the son of the late Alexander Eugene Macdonald, Deputy Clerk of the Crown and Registrar of the Surrogate Court of Cornwall, Ontario, and was born October 31, 1845, in Cornwall, and educated at the County High School. In 1876 he married Mary, the second daughter of Hon. Justice Hugh Richardson, formerly of the Superior and Supreme Court of the Canadian North-West Territories. He has one daughter, the wife of Lt.-Colonel C. L. Panet, Secretary of the Department of Militia and Defence. He resides at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Davidson, William McCartney, M.P.P.= (of Calgary), is one of the leading editors and public men of Alberta. He was born at Hillier, Prince Edward County, Ontario, on November 12, 1872, the son of James C. Davidson, a farmer, and Sarah McCartney Davidson, and was educated at the public school of his district, Picton High School, St. Catharines Collegiate Institute, and the University of Toronto. From the latter institution he graduated in June, 1893, with the degree of B.A., and decided to enter newspaper work. His first experience was as a reporter on the staff of the Toronto “World” under W. F. Maclean, M.P. A year later he was invited to join the staff of the Toronto “Star,” then in the early stages of its career, and shortly afterward became its representative in the press gallery of the Ontario Legislature. Mr. Davidson showed a grasp of public issues beyond the ordinary, and during the seven years he remained with the “Star” made its legislative reports a definite feature of the newspaper. In 1901 the Canadian West was just on the verge of the tremendous development which has marked the first two decades of this century, and Mr. Davidson resolved to try his fortunes there. In 1902 he established himself at Calgary, then a town of about 3,000 inhabitants, and founded the “Morning Albertan.” From comparatively humble beginnings it has developed into one of the most widely known newspapers in Canada. Throughout its career Mr. Davidson has retained the position of editor-in-chief and proprietor. He soon became prominently identified with the Liberal party in the province, and at the Alberta general elections of 1917 was elected to the Legislature for the riding of North Calgary. Few members of that body have as deep a knowledge of public questions and of parliamentary procedure. Mr. Davidson has travelled extensively, and one of his favorite pastimes is mountain-climbing. He is a member of St. Andrews Golf Club, of the A.F. & A.M., and the I.O.F. He is a Senator of the University of Alberta, and a Presbyterian in religion. He has been twice married: first, on June 6, 1899, to Christiana Constance Robertson, daughter of Rev. James Robertson, D.D., of Toronto, Superintendent of Missions for the Presbyterian Church of Canada. She died in March, 1904, and on September 10, 1913, Mr. Davidson married Ethel M. Heydon, daughter of George Heydon, of Yarmouth Centre, Ontario. He has three children, James R., William M., and Marian C. R. Davidson.

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=Parent, Hon. Simon Napoleon, K.C.=, who was Chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway Commission from 1905 to 1911, is the son of Simon Polycarpe and Luce (Belanger) Parent, of Beauport, Quebec, and was born there September 12, 1855. His education was had at the Quebec Normal School and Laval University, and between 1881 and 1902 he was awarded the following degrees and honours: Laval University, LL.L., with Lorne Gold Medal and Tessier Prize, 1881; LL.D., 1902; D.C.L. (Hon.), Bishop’s College University, Lennoxville, 1902. In 1881 Mr. Parent was called to the Bar, and was created K.C. in 1899. In October, 1877, he married Marie Louise Clara, daughter of the late Ambroise Gendron. Four sons and four daughters have blessed the union. At present Mr. Parent is President of the Quebec Streams Commission for the Province of Quebec. When admitted to the Bar, Mr. Parent successfully practised his profession in the city of Quebec, and from the start was looked upon as a practical man and a good and reliable lawyer. He served as an alderman in the Quebec City Council from 1890 to 1904, and was Mayor of the city from 1894 to 1905, during which time he built the new City Hall. Largely through his perseverance and energetic work, the splendid Quebec Bridge was built, and it was he who originated the park at St. Roch, between St. Roch and St. Sauveur. Quebec city streets were improved and the finances of the city placed on a better footing. Mr. Parent sat in the local legislature for St. Sauveur in the Liberal interest from 1890 to 1905, and served in the Marchand administration as Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mines and Forests from 1897 to 1900. On Mr. Marchand’s death in the latter year, Mr. Parent was called upon to succeed him as Prime Minister of the Province, and held that position up to 1905, when he resigned at the request of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier to accept the position of Chairman of the National Transcontinental Railway Commission, with headquarters at Ottawa, which Commission had charge and control of the construction of the Eastern Division of the Transcontinental Railway, extending from the city of Moncton, N.B., in the east to the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the west, and the operation thereof until completed and leased to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company. Mr. Parent was President of the Quebec Bridge Company from 1897 to 1908, was formerly a director of the Quebec Railway, Light and Power Company and the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway. During his whole public career, Mr. Parent has held the reputation for being an honest and able man; as one of the most industrious administrators of modern times; as a man of decision, business and legal ability, and rare enterprise in public matters; unassuming, courteous, and practical. A Roman Catholic in religion, Mr. Parent has ever been a staunch Liberal, and one of the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s best and most influential supporters. He is a member of the Rideau, Laurentian, and Ottawa Hunt Clubs in Ottawa, and of the Garrison Club, Quebec. His Ottawa residence is at 485 King Edward Avenue.

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=Rutherford, John Gunion, C.M.G., V.S.=, Ottawa, Honorary Associate of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Commissioner, Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada (Ottawa, Ont.) born at Mountain Cross, Peeblesshire, Scotland, on December 25, 1857, son of Rev. Robert Rutherford, M.A., and his wife Agnes Gunion. In 1887, he married Edith, daughter of Washington Boultbee, of Ancaster, Ont., by whom he has three daughters. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, and later spent several years in the practical study of agriculture in the counties of East Lothian and Selkirk. Coming to Canada at the age of seventeen, he attended the Ontario Agricultural College in 1875 and 1876, being one of the earliest students at that institution, and later gained valuable practical experience in agriculture on the famous Bow Park Farm at Brantford, Ontario. In 1879 he graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College with honors, winning the gold medal for the best general examination, and numerous other prizes. He practised veterinary medicine for several years in Ontario, the United States and Mexico, and returning to Canada in 1884, settled at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, where he engaged in general practice and horse breeding operations. He served as Veterinary Officer with the North-West Field Force under General Middleton during the Riel rebellion in 1885, and holds medal and clasp for that campaign. During his residence in Portage la Prairie he was for several years President of the Horse Breeders’ Association of Manitoba and the North-West Territories; President of the Manitoba Veterinary Association; President of the Manitoba and Lakeside Agricultural Society; the Island Park Racing Association, and the St. Andrew’s Society of Portage la Prairie. In 1884 he was appointed Veterinary Inspector for the Manitoba Government, an appointment which he held until 1892, when he was elected to represent the constituency of Lakeside (Portage Plains) in the Manitoba Legislature, in which body he was Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. He was re-elected by acclamation in 1896, but after one session resigned to enter Dominion politics as representative for the constituency of Macdonald, which then comprised over one-sixth of the province of Manitoba. He sat as member for this constituency in the Dominion House until 1900, and in 1901 went to Great Britain as special Quarantine Officer for the Canadian Department of Agriculture. In 1902, he was appointed Chief Veterinary Inspector, and in 1904, after organizing the Health of Animals Branch, he became Veterinary Director-General. In 1906, he also took over the office of Live Stock Commissioner, and in the same and the succeeding year organized the present Meat and Canned Foods Inspection Service. During his tenure of office many original and radical departures were made in connection with the control and eradication of contagious diseases among the live stock of the Dominion, the results achieved being eminently satisfactory. Under his direction, the work of the Live Stock Branch was very considerably extended, and brought into close correlation with that of the Health of Animals Branch, joint supervision over the work of both branches being in a number of cases exercised by the same officers, especially in those provinces farthest from Ottawa. In 1908, he went twice to Rome as delegate for Canada to the International Institute of Agriculture, and in the same year was appointed to represent the Dominion at the International Congress on Tuberculosis at Washington, D.C. He was President of the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1908-09, and Chairman since its inception of the International Commission on the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis. He was for several years President of the St. Andrews Society of Ottawa, and from 1909 to 1911 President of the Civil Service Association of Canada. He was created a C.M.G. in 1910. In May, 1911, he resigned from the Dominion service, but at the request of the Government retained office until March, 1912. Immediately thereafter, he was engaged by Lord Shaughnessy, then President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, to undertake a campaign for the general development of the live stock industry and the encouragement of mixed farming in the three prairie provinces. In the organization of the campaign he found it advisable to co-ordinate this special work with that of the Company’s Department of Natural Resources at Calgary, Alberta, and in the following spring (1913) he was appointed Superintendent of Agriculture and Animal Industry, a position involving full responsibility for all the agricultural operations of the Company, including the educational and experimental activities in connection with its irrigation projects in Alberta. From 1913 to 1919, he was President of the Western Canada Live Stock Union, an organization in the creation of which he was largely instrumental, and which comprises in its membership all live stock associations and other bodies interested in the production of live stock in the four Western Provinces. In December, 1918, his portrait in oils was added by the live stock men of Canada to the collection of similar pictures of live stock celebrities in the Saddle and Sirloin Club of Chicago. He was a member of the Dominion Economic and Development Commission, as also a member of the Saskatchewan Royal Live Stock Commission, and has since its inception been Chairman of the Joint Committee on Commerce and Agriculture. While resident in Alberta he was Vice-Chairman of the Provincial Board of Agricultural Education, as also President of the Alberta Thoroughbred Horse Breeders’ Association, besides holding office in numerous other live stock and kindred organizations. He has had exceptional opportunities of acquiring a practical knowledge of Canadian agriculture, having actually farmed, more or less extensively, in every province of the Dominion except Prince Edward Island, his own farm being situated in the Chilliwack Valley in British Columbia. He was appointed to the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada in November, 1918, and assumed office in February, 1919. Dr. Rutherford is a member of the following clubs: Ranchmen’s (Calgary), Rideau (Ottawa), University Club (Ottawa), Royal Ottawa Golf Club (Ottawa), and his home address is 218 MacLaren Street, Ottawa, Ont.