Part 39

=Bennett, Richard Bedford, K.C., LL.B.= (Calgary, Alta.), is one of the leading barristers and publicists of the Canadian West. He was born at Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, on July 3, 1870, the son of Henry J. and Henrietta (Stiles) Bennett. His father was of U.E. Loyalist stock, and his mother’s people settled in Canada immediately after the British conquest of 1759-60. On both sides Mr. Bennett represents the ninth generation born on this side of the Atlantic. He was educated in the Public and High Schools of New Brunswick and at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he qualified for the law and received the degree of LL.B. He was called to the New Brunswick Bar in 1893, and for a time practised at Chatham, N.B., as the partner of the late Hon. L. J. Tweedie, afterward Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of the Province. In 1897 he removed to Calgary, and was called to the Bar of the North-West Territories, forming a partnership with Mr. (now Sir) James Lougheed, at present Government leader in the Dominion Senate and Minister of Civil Re-establishment, a partnership which has continued ever since. In 1907, Mr. Bennett was created King’s Counsel. In 1898, one year after his arrival in the West, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories for West Calgary, and sat in that body until its dissolution in 1905, on the granting of autonomy to Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1909, he was elected for his old constituency to the Alberta Legislature, and was recognized as the ablest debater in that body. Among his public services was the exposure of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway transaction, which led to a change from the Rutherford to the Sifton administration and Cabinet reconstruction. At the Federal elections of 1911 he resigned from the Alberta Legislature to run for the House of Commons as Conservative candidate for Calgary. He was elected, and the same campaign placed Sir Robert Borden in power. At Ottawa, Mr. Bennett was at once recognized as one of the leading figures on the Government benches, and in the trying period which followed the outbreak of the war in 1914 proved a source of strength to the administration. Actively identified with the Canadian Patriotic Fund and Red Cross Society. President of the Alberta Provincial Branch of the latter, member of Central Council and of Executive of Patriotic Fund. He accompanied Sir Robert Borden to Great Britain and France in 1915 on the occasion of the Prime Minister’s first visit of inspection to the Canadian army overseas, and later became Chairman of the National Service Commission to report on Canada’s war possibilities in men and resources. At the general election of 1917 declined re-nomination, but supported Union Government. In addition to his renowned forensic abilities, Mr. Bennett has a deep grasp of commercial and development questions. Shortly after going to the West he became identified with the irrigation projects of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. He resigned his position as counsel to that company in Alberta on being elected to the House of Commons. He is to-day interested in and director of several industrial and financial corporations, including the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. In religion he is a Methodist, and in politics an Independent. He is a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, and a member of the following clubs: Ranchmen’s and Golf and Country, Calgary; Rideau and Country, Ottawa.

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=Butterworth, John George Bissett=, Ottawa’s premier coal merchant, was born at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, in 1848. His ancestors can be traced back to the Huguenots of France, whose lives were in constant danger in the 16th and 17th centuries, who were constantly involved in war, who were persecuted and suffered severely in the reign of Francis I. and his successors, and of whom from 25,000 to 30,000 suffered death at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 20, 1572. In 1685, hundreds of thousands of these Puritans went into exile, going to Prussia, Holland, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and America, and Mr. Butterworth’s ancestors found a resting-place, a place of safety, in England, where they remained and industriously added to the wealth of the country, and took part in the Peninsular War at the beginning of the 19th century. Being seafaring, enterprising, and ambitious men, and with a desire to make their mark in the new world, where they would have large scope to exercise their talents, they left the old country and arrived at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, where, eventually, they became builders and owners of merchant ships and captains in the merchant fleet, and married into United Empire families. Tiring of seafaring life, and in compliance with the wishes of the sons, and at the suggestion of the mother, Mr. Butterworth, Sr., sold out his shipping interests and the valuable lands and wharves which he owned at Port Hawkesbury, and with his wife and family arrived in Ottawa, which was then in its infancy, having been incorporated just one year, previously. When they grew up, Mr. Butterworth and his two brothers, E. B. and C. A. Butterworth, following in the ambitious footsteps of their ancestors, not satisfied with their then existing opportunities for advancement, left for the United States, and engaged in business and met with success. Their love for the British Empire, however, was still dominant within them, and they decided to sell out, return to Canada, and make it their future home. In 1874, they entered into business in Ottawa as hardware merchants and metal workers, and later, in 1881, started in the coal business. Eventually, C. A. and E. B. retired from the coal business and continued in the hardware business, while J. G. B., the subject of this sketch, retired from both of these and remained alone as the coal merchant, which business he has carried on to this day most successfully, and which to-day holds the lead of all others. Mr. Butterworth has three plants, with large storage capacity sufficient to hold at any one time 25,000 tons, and enabling him to constantly carry a heavy stock of coal during the summer to provide against delays in winter transportation and during the winter season. Over $100,000 is invested in these plants. In the severe winter of 1917, had it not been for the provision made by and the ability of Mr. Butterworth to supply large quantities of coal, there would have been great hardship in not only Ottawa, but in Carleton Place, Perth, Almonte, Arnprior, Renfrew, and many outside places in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, to which points he was able to and did ship thousands of tons of coal. He, in that terrible winter, became the great provider of the people of Ottawa and her surrounding neighbours by supplying them with the coal they needed. For 1918 he was equally prepared to meet any emergency that might arise, but, luckily, the winter was not of a nature so severe as that of the previous year. In 1917, in order to cope with all demands that were likely to be made, Mr. Butterworth practically took care of the coal trade. He took the whole output of the Independent Coal Mine in Pennsylvania, shipped the small sizes to N.Y. and N.J. to the textile and munitions factories, and the prepared sizes into Canada. In so doing he secured large quantities of coal which otherwise could not have been obtained, and his foresight and enterprise prevented a serious coal famine in Ottawa and the other places before mentioned. The name of John George Bissett Butterworth will always be held high in gratitude and esteem by the people of Ottawa and of many other cities and towns in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Mr. Butterworth is the son of William and Matilda Catherine (Bissett) Butterworth. He is President and Managing Director of the Ormstown Brick and Terra Cotta Co., of Ormstown, Quebec; ex-Vice-President of the Montreal Terminal Railway; ex-President of the Capital Power Company, of Deschene; ex-President, Ottawa Cartage Company; and ex-President of the Capital Fuel Company. In 1879, Mr. Butterworth married Elisabeth J. Shaw, daughter of James Shaw, Shawville, Quebec, a merchant in that place. He has two sons and two daughters—Grace Winifred, John George Hawthorne, Ethel Gertrude, and Wilfred Rosamond. One of his sons served as a lieutenant in the European War. Mr. Butterworth is an Anglican in religion, and resides at 225 MacLaren St., Ottawa, Ont.

=Bell, John Percival=, General Manager of the Bank of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont., is recognized as one of the ablest of Canadian financiers. He is a native of the city in which he resides, and from early youth has grown up with the institution of which he is now the executive head. He was born on June 8th, 1872, the son of John and Jane (Park) Bell, and was educated in the public and high schools of Hamilton. In 1888, as a lad of sixteen he entered the service of the Bank of Hamilton as a junior clerk, and during the ensuing twelve years learned every phase of the banking business. In 1900 he was appointed manager of the Georgetown branch, and two years later was transferred to the Berlin (now Kitchener) branch in a similar capacity. In 1904, he became manager of the Brantford branch, one of the most important in the territory of the institution, and remained there until 1909, when he returned to Hamilton to become manager of the main office in that city. In 1914, he was promoted to the position of General Manager on the retirement from that position of Mr. James Turnbull, who, by a coincidence had become General Manager of the Bank in the same year (1888) that Mr. Bell entered its service. The five years of Mr. Bell’s incumbency as General Manager have been the most difficult in the history of Canadian finance, owing to the disruption caused by the great war, and he has proven a brilliant success. He has carried on the policy which has specially endeared the Bank of Hamilton to its clientele, by caring for the interests of the business man of moderate resources with the same zeal as is bestowed on those of the great corporations. Mr. Bell is thoroughly in touch with the great and constantly expanding business interests of his native city; and his regime has been marked by an expansion of the Bank’s Toronto custom, as witnessed in the taking over of the great office building and premises of the now extinct Traders’ Bank in that city. He was elected a councillor of the Hamilton Board of Trade in 1911, and during the war acted as Treasurer of the Patriotic Fund for his district. His recreations are golf, bowling and curling, and he is a member of the following clubs: Hamilton; Hamilton Thistle; Hamilton Jockey; Royal Hamilton Yacht; Hamilton Golf; and the Toronto Club (Toronto). In politics he is independent, and in religion an Anglican. On Oct. 11th, 1900, he married Rosalind, daughter of Rev. Arthur Boultbee, Toronto, and has two sons and three daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Bell reside at 78 Chedske Ave., Hamilton.

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=Noyes, John Powell=, Prothonotary Superior Court (Cowansville, Ont.), was born at Potton, Brome County, Que., September 15th, 1842, the son of Herman B. Noyes and Sarah Powell. Receiving his education in Bangor and Fort Covington, N.Y., and St. Mary’s College, Montreal, from which last he graduated in 1866, he studied law with the late Hon. L. S. Huntington, Q.C., and the late Judge Laframboise. Mr. Noyes practised his profession at Waterloo, Que., where he was also editor of the “Advertiser,” and meeting with gratifying success became Batonnier of Bedford District and K.C. in 1886; also Batonnier-General for the Province of Quebec in 1887. In 1889 he was appointed a Royal Commissioner to investigate the claim of the Hereford Railway Employees, and in 1891 Joint Prothonotary Superior Court, Joint Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Joint Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the District of Bedford. In 1887 he was nominated for Shefford (Local) Constituency in the Liberal interest but withdrew before the contest; his name has also been mentioned as a candidate for the Judiciary. Mr. Noyes was the first Mayor of the Town of Waterloo and for an extended period Secretary-Treasurer of the Stanstead, Shefford & Chambly Railway Co., of which he is now a director. He is the author of “Canadian Loyalists and Early Settlers in the District of Bedford,” published in 1901, also of “Some Pioneers of Shefford,” is a director of the Historical Society of Missisquoi, and was elected President in 1904. He has been a Freemason since 1866, having been a member of and sat in the Grand Lodges of Canada and Quebec; he was grand Superintendent R. A. Masons, Eastern Township District, in 1883; Grand First Principal, Grand Chapter of Quebec in 1886-7; Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Quebec, in 1893, and Grand Master of the above in 1894. Mr. Noyes married Lucy A., daughter of Joseph Merry of Magog, Que., in 1867, and has six children—Egbert S., Jessie C., Laura M., Bertha A., Emily M. and Ralph M. Noyes, of whom four survive. In 1913 he was named sole Prothonotary of the District of Bedford and in 1916 was tendered a banquet by the Judges, Bar and Court Officials of the District on the anniversary of his admission to the Bar fifty years before, and of his appointment as Joint Prothonotary twenty-five years before.

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=Hughes, Brigadier-General William St. Pierre, D.S.O.= (Ottawa, Ont.). On October 19, 1914, authority was granted to Lieut.-Colonel (now Brigadier-General) William St. Pierre Hughes to organize an infantry battalion to be absorbed into the Second Canadian Contingent for Overseas Service. On the evening of May 5, the 21st was given a rousing send-off by the citizens of Kingston, Ontario, and the following morning the battalion embarked at Montreal on the S.S. Metagama for overseas. Ten days later the 21st disembarked at Devonport, England, and on Sept. 15 it landed on French soil, and, in due time was under fire at Messines, Vis-en-Artois, Neuville Villasse, Mercatel, Amiens, Bouley Grenier, St. Eloi, Sanctuary Wood, Ancre, Vimy Ridge, Courcelette, Mosselmark Village and Polderhook Chateau, Passchendaele, Bapaume, Arras, Quichy-le-Chateau, the village of Damery and Parvillers, Cambrai, and was one of the first battalions to cross the boundary at Bonn into Germany. Before going overseas to serve in the Great War, General William St. Pierre Hughes held the position of Inspector of Penitentiaries, with headquarters in Ottawa. During his absence at the front that office was abolished by Act of Parliament, and the new office of Superintendent of Penitentiaries was established. The value to Canada of General Hughes’ services as Inspector and as a competent and fearless soldier during the war were well known to the Dominion Government, to the members of Parliament, and to the general public, and when the position of Superintendent was made public, members of Parliament, the Press of Canada and the public in general were unanimous in General Hughes’ favor, and he was appointed to the position. When he was appointed to the position the “Montreal Gazette” said: “One of the purposes of the Civil Service Commission is to select for appointment worthy and capable men...... A case in point is the selection of Major-General Hughes for the position of Superintendent of Dominion Penitentiaries...... General Hughes comes of a fighting family in a military sense, and the call of the colors has always found in him a quick response even in the relatively remote days of 1885...... His appointment is still more to be commended by reason of merit and experience. He had long service in the Penitentiaries Branch of the Department of Justice, in which he rose to the rank of Chief Inspector before donning the uniform in defence of the Empire...... The responsible duties of the office will be well discharged by one who never failed in duty.” Brigadier-General William St. Pierre Hughes, D.S.O., Superintendent of Penitentiaries, and brother of Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, was born in Durham County, Ontario, June 2, 1863, and is the son of John Hughes and Caroline Laughlin. From both sides of his family he inherited military tastes, his father being the son of a surgeon-major in the Imperial army who spent eighteen years in India, and his mother the daughter of Colonel Laughlin of the 10th Royal Irish Artillery and the granddaughter of Colonel St. Pierre, one of the most famous of Napoleon’s colonels. General Hughes was educated entirely by his father until his eleventh year, when he went to Toronto where he remained six years. After a year at home he went to Winnipeg, where in 1885 he enlisted with the famous “Little Black Devils.” During his stay in Winnipeg he won the amateur championship of Manitoba and the North-West as a one-mile foot runner. After the Rebellion he returned to Ontario, spending a year at college in Belleville; then a year in Orillia where he played lacrosse with the Orillia team when that team won the championship of Ontario; then to Cornwall, where he played with the famous Cornwall lacrosse team during its years of national triumph. In 1893, General Hughes became Warden’s Secretary and Clerk of Industries in the Kingston Penitentiary, taking up what has become his life’s work. After filling a number of different positions in penitentiary work, during which he took a deep interest in criminology, General Hughes became Inspector of Penitentiaries in 1913. With great earnestness he started to put into effect many cherished plans for prison reform, but the call of 1914 put an end for the time to this work. During all the years of prison work General Hughes has kept in close touch with military affairs. Starting as lieutenant in the old 14th Battalion of Kingston, he, in course of time, became lieutenant-colonel commanding it, and was also brigade-major of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade. General Hughes was in the West when war was declared, and on his return in September, 1914, hurried to Valcartier, but was then unable to get a place in the 1st Contingent, which had already been mobilized. He then returned to Kingston and mobilized the famous 21st Battalion. He commanded this battalion continuously until July, 1916, when he was promoted to the command of the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade, which he commanded in France until the spring of 1917. He then returned to England, where he commanded the Canadian area at Crowborough until it was taken over by the Imperial army. General Hughes then became president of a board for adjusting the financial differences between the Imperial and Canadian authorities as regards barrack damages, etc., and succeeded in writing off over $225,000 of charges made by Imperials against Canadians, and also saving an amount of almost $50,000 which was paid to Canadian Paymaster-General by various units in settlement of these charges. During his service in France General Hughes was awarded the D.S.O., and was twice mentioned in despatches. Owing to a reorganization of the Penitentiary Branch, General Hughes was forced to return to Canada in the summer of 1918, and was appointed Superintendent of Penitentiaries in April, 1919. Prominent relatives of General Hughes, besides Major-General Sir Sam Hughes, are Major John Hughes and Dr. James L. Hughes, brothers. February 5, 1900, General Hughes married Jessie Williams, daughter of William Macleod, of Cornwall, Ontario. He has one son and one daughter, Major Laughlin Macleod Hughes, R.C.H.A., and Mrs. John S. Gzowski, of Montreal, Quebec. General Hughes is a member of the following societies: Masonic, Orange, Odd-fellows and Foresters. For recreation he indulges in all-round sports and big game hunting. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and resides at 155 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Smart, Russell Sutherland, B.A., M.E.=, is a member of the firm of Featherstonhaugh & Smart, Patent Solicitors, 5 Elgin Street, Ottawa. He is the son of George A. and Louise Maud (Walton) Smart, of Toronto. His father was a well-known author. Mr. Smart was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 20, 1885, and was educated in the Jarvis Collegiate Institute, Toronto; Toronto University, 1904; School of Practical Science; Queen’s University, 1907; honorary M.E. Toronto University 1913. In July, 1911, Mr. Smart was called to the Quebec bar, and to the Ontario bar in 1914. In May, 1904 he was admitted Patent Attorney. He is joint author of “Fisher and Smart on Patents,” and author of “Smart on Trademarks.” December 24, 1908, Mr. Smart married Emma Louise Parr, daughter of James A. Parr, lumberman, of Ottawa. He has three daughters—Helen Louise, Elizabeth, and Jane Clayton. Mr. Smart is a member of the Rideau, Rivermead Golf, University (Toronto), and Chemists (New York) clubs, and of the following societies: Engineering Institute of Canada, Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, and Patent American Law Association. For recreation, Mr. Smart indulges in golf and tennis. In religion he is a Presbyterian; in politics, independent; and he resides at 15 Linden Terrace, Ottawa.

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=McMahon, James Alexander= (Hamilton, Ont.), Treasurer and Managing Director, Union Drawn Steel Company, Limited, conducted a Commercial College at Beaver Falls, Penn., 1887-1892; was employed with the Swan Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1892-1893, and with the Union Drawn Steel Company, of Beaver Falls, Penn., 1893-1905, coming to Hamilton in 1905, where he established the present business. He is a member of the Executive Committee, Hamilton Branch, Canadian Manufacturers Association, 1916-17; a member of the Membership Committee of the same for all of Canada, of which latter body he was Chairman in 1911; a member of the Technical Committee Hamilton School Board, and a member of the Hamilton Board of Trade. Mr. McMahon was born in Venango County, Penn., December 18th, 1859, the son of John and Margaret (Wolf) McMahon. He was educated at the Public Schools of Pennsylvania, and took a Commercial Course at Oberlin, Ohio. In 1889 he married Jennie G., daughter of Benjamin F. Beegle, by whom he has one son, Carl A., and one daughter, Alma. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. also of the Commercial Club, Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, and Canadian Club, Glendale Golf and Country Club, all of Hamilton. In politics he is a Conservative, and a Methodist in religion.

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=Gwatkin, Major-General W. G.= (Ottawa, Ont.), has been connected with the military system of Canada since 1905. Except for rather less than two years—between 1909 and 1911—his service with it has been continuous, and he has been intimately concerned alike with the preparations which were made for the Great War and with the staff work at Headquarters during the course of the war. A Cambridge University man, he joined the Manchester Regiment in 1882, and served as Subaltern, Adjutant, Company Commander and Second in Command; in 1894 he passed the Staff College; and in 1898 he began a long career on the Staff. Early in 1899 he went to the War Office to work in what ultimately became the Mobilization Section, the organ of the War Office which had a great deal to do, first, with the rapid and efficient supply of troops to South Africa, and afterwards with the careful preparations which enabled the regular army to show to such advantage in France. In the War Office during this period he served under Colonel (now Lieut.-General) Sir Percy Lake. In 1904, General Lake came to Canada to be the first Chief of the General Staff, and in 1905 he brought Colonel Gwatkin (who had been serving with his regiment in South Africa) to Ottawa to serve as Director of Operations and Staff Duties—in other words, to be his principal technical assistant. The reorganization of the Canadian Militia which followed the South African War was beginning. In the years between 1904 and 1914 the Militia force was remodelled, and a staff system was founded which proved able to carry through the work of raising and sending overseas an army of half a million men. Colonel Gwatkin’s services were so highly regarded that the Minister of Militia specially asked the War Office for an extension of his services, and he remained in Canada, not for the regulation three years, but for four. After a period of staff service in England his services were again requested by the Canadian Government, and he came to Canada early in 1911. At that time the military authorities of the Empire had become seriously apprehensive of war with Germany, and Colonel Gwatkin’s work largely comprised such measures of organization for this emergency as were undertaken in the circumstances. In particular he drew up complete plans for the raising and despatch of a contingent to England in the event of a war in Europe in which Canada might wish to participate. The plan drawn up anticipated a large number of the points which arose when the war actually came. In November, 1913, he succeeded Major-General C. J. MacKenzie as Chief of the General Staff. He was filling this post when the war came. The work done in the Militia Department in preparation for such an eventuality proved of the utmost service. Cable censorship was established, harbours were closed, dangerous points were guarded, the transition from peace to a war which the general public had not expected was made with remarkable smoothness. When the first contingent sailed General Gwatkin was desired by the Government to stay at Militia Headquarters to keep the machine working. During the entire course of the war he performed enormous labours. To recruit, give preliminary training to and ship overseas so large an army meant administrative ability of a very high order and the discharge of an immense amount of thankless labour. He has done his work to the high satisfaction of the Government of Canada, whose principal military adviser he has been. It showed its appreciation of his services by insisting on retaining him, though the Imperial Government repeatedly expressed a desire to recall him for service in Great Britain or France. The details of his career are as follows:—Major-General Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin, C.B., C.M.G., born August 11, 1859; was appointed Lieutenant Manchester Regiment May 10, 1882; Adjutant, Manchester Regiment, April 18, 1888, to April 17, 1892; Captain, Manchester Regiment, January 17, 1890; Major, Manchester Regiment, April 7, 1900; Brevet Lieut.-Colonel, January 6, 1904; Brevet Colonel November 20, 1907; Major-General, October 21, 1914. Staff appointments—Staff Captain Egypt, January 24, 1898, to April 20, 1898; Staff Captain, Headquarters of Army, March 11, 1899, to January 10, 1900; D.A.A.G., H.Q. of Army (temp.) January 11, 1900 to January 21, 1901; Staff Captain (Mobilization) H.Q. of Army, January 22, 1901, to October 14, 1902; D.A.Q.M.G. (Mobilization) H.Q. of Army, October 15, 1902, to October 31, 1903; Director of Operations and Staff Duties (General Staff Officer 2nd Grade) Canadian Militia, October 5, 1905, to October 20, 1909; General Staff Officer 1st grade Eastern Command, March 5, 1910, to February 28, 1911; General Staff Officer (Mobilization) 1st Grade Militia H.Q., Canada, July 14, 1911, to October 31, 1913; Chief of the General Staff and 1st Military Member of the Militia Council, Dominion of Canada, November 1, 1913. General Gwatkin is the fourth son of the late Frederick Gwatkin of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London, W.C., and Grove House, Twickenham, and Louisa Isabella, younger daughter of the Rev. Ambrose Stapleton, vicar of East Budleigh, Devonshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, at King’s College, Cambridge, and at R.M.C., Sandhurst. In 1916 he was created C.B. (Civil), C.M.G. in 1918 and Order of St. Sava of Serbia in 1918.

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=Ross, John Theodore, B.A.= (Quebec), is one of the leading capitalists of the city. He was born in that city on Nov. 30, 1862, the son of the late John Ross, a prominent merchant and his wife, Anne Runcie. The late Senator J. G. Ross was his uncle. He was educated at Quebec High School, at Morrin College and at McGill University, Montreal, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1883. He entered the wholesale business firm of his father, known as John Ross & Co., in 1884, and was admitted to full partnership in 1887, continuing in this capacity until 1894 when the firm was liquidated. Since then he has been widely engaged in financial and commercial operations. He was elected Vice-President of the Quebec Bank in 1897 and President in 1908. On its amalgamation with the Royal Bank of Canada some years later he became a Director of the latter institution. Among his many other interests is that of President of the Chronicle Printing Company, which publishes the “Quebec Chronicle,” one of the historic newspapers of Eastern Canada. His other commercial interests have at various times embraced the Quebec Steamship Company, the Montmorency Cotton Mills Company, the McArthur Export Company, The Quebec Improvement Company, the Trans-Canada Railway Co., the Pacific Pass Coalfields, Ltd., the Quebec Transport Company, the North Pacific Lumber Company. He has also taken a deep interest in public and philanthropic affairs. He is a member of the Quebec Board of Trade and Chairman of the Quebec High School Board, Vice-President of the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and President of the Jeffrey Hale Hospital. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Conservative. He is a member of the Garrison Club, Quebec, and his recreations are driving and tennis. On April 15, 1896, he married Mabel Kate, daughter of John Burstall, Quebec, and has two sons and two daughters. He resides on St. Louis Road, Quebec.

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=Rogers, John Morrison= (Ingersoll, Ont.), physician and surgeon, has been active in the Liberal Party for a number of years, being Liberal nominee for the Legislative Assembly in his constituency at the present time. He is the son of Thomas and Margaret Rogers, and was born at Mount Forest, Ont., in 1867, where he received his early education, afterwards graduating from Toronto University in 1893. Dr. Rogers married Edythe B., daughter of J. B. Hambridge, Aylmer, Ont., in 1902, and has three sons: John Reginald, Donald Morrison, and William Parke. He is a member of the Ontario Medical Association, Vice-President Western Liberal Association, the Ingersoll Curling Club, and the Ingersoll Bowling Club. In religion he is a Presbyterian.

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=Colquhoun, Arthur Hugh Urquhart, B.A., LL.D.=, Deputy Minister of Education for the Province of Ontario, was born at Montreal on December 2, 1861, the son of the late Walter Colquhoun (a native of Dumbartonshire, Scotland,) and his wife Jane, daughter of William Clarke, Niagara, Ont., and relict of Charles Richardson, M.P. He was educated at Cornwall Public School, Montreal High School (where he won the Murray Medal for proficiency and the Governor-General’s Medal for literature and history) and McGill University, from which he graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.A., first class honors in English literature and history, and the Shakespeare gold medal. During his student days he took up the calling of journalism and joined the editorial staff of the “Montreal Star” in 1881. In 1883 he was entrusted with the post of editor-in-chief of the “Montreal Weekly Star,” and at the same time edited the “McGill University Gazette.” In 1886 he went to Ottawa and accepted the post of editor of the “Journal” of that city. In 1887, when the leaders of the Conservative government founded the “Toronto Empire” as chief organ of the party, he was appointed assistant editor and has ever since made Toronto his home. In 1891, he was appointed managing editor of the “Empire” and continued in that capacity until its amalgamation with the “Mail” in 1895. In the latter year, he entered the growing field of trade journalism with Col. J. B. Maclean, and until 1902 edited the “Printer and Publisher” and the “Dry Goods Review.” In 1902, he joined the staff of the “Mail and Empire” as editorial writer, and early in 1903, when Mr. J. S. (now Sir John) Willison reorganized the “Toronto News,” he became news editor of that publication, and helped to make the paper temporarily famous for the literary distinction and importance of its news columns. From the outset of the political career of the late Sir James Whitney, Mr. Colquhoun had been his close personal friend and adviser. One of the pledges of that statesman while leader of the opposition in the Ontario Legislature was a reorganization of the educational system from top to bottom, and shortly after his elevation to the post of Prime Minister in 1905 he appointed a Royal Commission of distinguished men to enquire into the affairs of the provincial university at Toronto. At the request of Mr. Whitney, Mr. Colquhoun accepted the position of secretary of the commission, and had much to do with the drafting of its report, which proved to be one of the most important documents of its kind produced in this country. In recognition of his services in this capacity, the University conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1906. In the latter year he was also appointed Deputy Minister of Education, a position he still holds, and was largely instrumental in putting into effect the reforms promised by Sir James Whitney. In 1908, he was offered and declined the post of Chief Librarian of the city of Toronto. Among the earlier positions that he held was that of Chairman of the Press Committee of the British Association when it met at Toronto in 1897, an occasion which brought to Canada many of the great scientists of that day. He was also elected President of the Canadian Press Association for 1906-7. Both before and since his retirement from journalism, Mr. Colquhoun has been a frequent contributor, chiefly on historical themes, to magazines and reviews, including “The Canadian Magazine,” “The University Magazine,” “The British Empire Review,” and “Queen’s Quarterly.” On the political history of the provinces of Canada, he is a recognized authority; and his published works include “The History of Canadian Press Association”; the volume on the Fathers of Confederation in “The Chronicles of Canada,” and “Memoir of Senator Gowan, C.M.G.” (which he edited). His books are marked by purity of diction, and shrewd and moderate judgments on men and events. Mr. Colquhoun is a member of the Toronto Club and the Toronto Golf Club, and resides at 342 Walmer Road, Toronto.

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=Miller, Lieut.-Colonel John Bellamy=, Manufacturer (Toronto, Ont.), President of the Polson Iron Works, Limited, and Parry Sound Lumber Company, is the son of John Clausin Miller, Lumberman, Parry Sound, Ont., and Adelaide Augusta Chamberlain; was born at Farmersville (now Athens), July 26, 1862, and received his education at the Model School, Toronto, and Upper Canada College. Following his educational training, Mr. Miller entered the lumber business with the Parry Sound Lumber Co. as clerk, and while holding this position, mastered every detail of lumber manufacturing. In 1883, following his father’s death, John B. Miller took complete charge of the business and was made president of the Company, which position he still holds. He is also president of the Polson Iron Works, Limited, of Toronto, and holds a like position in the Polson Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. of Toronto. Added to the above Mr. Miller is president of the Consumers Box Company of Toronto, and was largely instrumental in the formation of the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association, of which he is past-president. Mr. Miller holds membership in the following clubs: National Ontario, R.C.Y.C., Rosedale Golf, Scarboro Golf, Ontario Jockey Club, Canadian Military Institute, Aero Club of Canada, all of Toronto; the Rideau Club, of Ottawa; Junior Army & Navy Club, London, Eng.; Aero Club of America, New York; Royal Colonial Institute, London; Associate of Institute of Naval Architects of London, Eng. Mr. Miller was married October 3rd, 1883, to Hannah Pollock Hunter. Mrs. Miller died in 1893. By this marriage there were two sons, John Clausin Miller and Henry H. Miller. Mr. Miller’s second marriage took place September 22nd, 1897, to Jessie Thompson, of Longford, Ont., a daughter of the late John Thompson, a prominent Lumberman of that place. One daughter survives this union, Margaret Lumsden Miller, together with Capt. H. H. Miller, son of the first marriage. Mr. Miller has the honor of being Lieut.-Col. of the 23rd Regiment of Northern Pioneers, with Headquarters at Parry Sound; is a Liberal in politics and his favorite recreations are golf, shooting and fishing; resides at 98 Wellesley Street, and has his office at Polson Iron Works.

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=Nasmith, Colonel George Gallie= (Toronto, Ont.), who already enjoyed a high reputation throughout Canada as a sanitary expert, has won added distinction in the European War through brilliant services in his special field. He was made Lieutenant-Colonel, August, 1914 (Colonel in April, 1917), and Officer Commanding the Hydrological Corps, in which capacity he had charge of the purification of the water supply at the new Valcartier Military Camp during the mobilization of the First Contingent. He was sent to England as adviser in sanitation in charge of water purifications with the first contingent. While on Salisbury Plain, he was useful in getting the remainder of the contingent inoculated against typhoid; in installing a laboratory for the control of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and in training men in the purification of water. Colonel Nasmith was sent to France in March, 1915, as O.C. No. 5 (Canadian) Mobile Laboratory, where he conceived the idea of a mobile filter unit for purifying any water supply, which has since been adopted by the war office, and is now in general use among the British armies in France, Mesopotamia, and elsewhere. He was present at the second battle of Ypres, and saw the gas being discharged by the Germans for the first time. He diagnosed its composition correctly, and reported it to General Army Headquarters, recommending the use of masks to cover the face and nose, saturated with hyposulphite of soda to absorb the gas. These were adopted until experience enabled a more perfect type to be elaborated. Other recommendations made by him in regard to gas and water purification were also adopted. He was the representative of Canada on the War Allies Sanitary Commission which met in Paris during 1916. In January, 1916, he was mentioned in despatches, and made C.M.G. for services in the field, being decorated by the King. Colonel Nasmith is a Baptist in religion, and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, of the American and Canadian Public Health Associations, the Arts and Letters Club, and the Engineers Club, of Toronto. Obtained the Diploma of Public Health from Toronto University in 1918. He has published numerous general papers on foods, milk, water purification, and sewage disposal, as well as conducting researches which are embodied in the following papers:—“The Hæmatology of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning,” “Changes Induced in the Blood of Guinea Pigs in an Atmosphere of Coal Gas,” “A Simple Method of Purifying Almost any Water Supply,” “A New Type of Trickling Filter,” “A Mobile Filter of Large Capacity Suggested for Use in the British Army,” “The Chemistry of Wheat Gluten,” and “Wind Driven Currents in the Great Lakes.” He is also author of “On the Fringe of the Great Fight,” published 1918, and “Canada’s Sons and Great Britain in the Great War,” published 1919. Colonel Nasmith is greatly interested in music, painting, and the drama, as well as in horticulture and sailing. From 1903 to 1909 he was Chemist to the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, and from 1909 to date Director of Laboratories, Department of Health, Toronto. He was born in Toronto in 1877, the son of Mungo Nasmith, of Greenock, Scotland, and Jane Morrow, of Bath, England. He was educated at Jarvis Street Collegiate and the University of Toronto, graduating as a B.A. in 1900 and as M.A. and Ph.D. in 1903, also receiving the Honorary Degree of D.Sc. in 1917 from his alma mater in recognition of his scientific work with the British Army in France. Colonel Nasmith married Mrs. Scott Roff, Principal of the Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression, and daughter of the late Rev. James Scott, Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1916.

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=Flynn, Edmund James=, Judge of the Superior Court (Quebec City, Que.), is the son of the late James Flynn and Elizabeth Tostivin, and was born in Percé, Shiretown of Gaspé County, November 16, 1847. After a distinguished career at Quebec Seminary and Laval University, he graduated from the latter institution of learning in 1873 with the degree of LL.L., receiving the higher honor of LL.D. in 1878. Mr. Justice Flynn has been prominent in Provincial politics during a public life of some thirty years, during which time he was M.L.A. for the constituencies of Gaspé and Nicolet respectively, and held office successively as Commissioner of Crown Lands, Minister of Railways, Solicitor-General and Commissioner of Public Works in various Liberal-Conservative Administrations; from May, 1896, to May, 1897, he was Prime Minister of Quebec. From 1897 to 1904, he was leader of the Opposition. In 1908, he was candidate for House of Commons in Dorchester Co., but was defeated by a comparatively small majority. Between the years 1874 and 1914 when he received his appointment as Judge, Mr. Flynn was a practising lawyer at the Quebec Bar and Professor of Roman Law in Laval, of which University he is to-day Dean in the Faculty of Law; having also been Batonnier of the Quebec Bar. A Roman Catholic in religion, Judge Flynn married Augustine, daughter of the late Augustin Cote, Editor of the “Journal de Quebec,” in 1875, by whom he has had eleven children; those surviving are Amelia, wife of Lt.-Col. Chauveau, K.C., Edmund, C.P.R. Ticket Agent; Percy, Capt. Adjt., 10th Reserve Batt., C.E.F.; and Beatrice. After the decease of his first wife he married Cecile Pouliot, widow of Eugene Globensky, of Montreal, in 1912.

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=Willis, James E.= (Whitby, Ont.), is one of the best known and progressive citizens of that town. At present he holds the position of police magistrate for the town, but has been identified with public affairs in various capacities for some years past. While still comparatively young in years, he built up a successful position in the business world, and at the time of his appointment to his legal office in 1918, filled the office of President of the Whitby Board of Trade. He has also taken an active part in municipal affairs, and held the office of Mayor of the town for two terms. Another office which he has filled with success is that of Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of the town. It was while Mayor of Whitby that he became identified with the movement to extend the scope and usefulness of the hydro-electric system of Ontario. It was the desire of Sir Adam Beck and his chief lieutenants that the system already so widely used for manufacturing, municipal and domestic purposes should be augmented by a great network of radial railways. Under Mayor Willis’s advice, the town of Whitby was the first municipality in Ontario to avail itself of these proposals by extending municipal support to a hydro-electric radial railway linking up Toronto with the towns of Whitby, Markham and Port Perry; and it is expected that the road when constructed and put in operation will do much for the entire section immediately east of Toronto. Another local enterprise which was in the main due to Mr. Willis’s progressive spirit was the installing of a sewerage system, which was essential to the establishment near the town of Whitby of a great provincial hospital for the insane, which, during the war was turned over to the military authorities, and was the largest soldiers’ hospital in the Dominion of Canada. When the plans which Mr. Willis has done so much to promote are carried out, Whitby will have a close suburban connection by electric railway with Toronto, and it is expected will become an important residential centre for the wealthier families of that city. When the late Major Harper, who had formerly served as police magistrate, passed away in 1918, the Attorney-General of Ontario appointed Mr. Willis his successor; and the choice was applauded not merely locally, but in wider circles where the activities of Mr. Willis for the development of Whitby had rendered his name familiar. He is recognized as one of the most forceful and progressive municipal authorities in Canada. In his younger days he took an active interest in outdoor sports, such as foot racing, cricket, baseball, and was secretary of the Whitby Curling Club for many years, and took part as skip in many Tankard and friendly matches. He has been from his youth a reader, and is one of the best posted men on general and scientific subjects in his native town. It has been his policy to strongly advocate any movement that would be for the good and uplifting of the people as a whole; and he has often been heard to say: “I wish I could do some lasting good for my fellow man, and leave the world a little better than I found it. If I can do no permanent and lasting good, I feel that I have lived in vain.”