Part 42

=Foran, Joseph Kearney, K.C., Litt. D., LL.B.=, Montreal and Ottawa, is one of the legal staff of the House of Commons, and also one of the leading litterateurs of Canada. He was born at Aylmer, Que., on September 5, 1857, the son of John Foran, a prominent lumberman, and his wife, Catharine F. Kearney. The latter was a lady of pronounced literary talent, and in her younger days was on the staff of the Dublin “Nation.” After coming to America, she for a time edited the “Ladies’ Literary Journal,” of Philadelphia. The subject of this sketch was educated at St. Joseph’s College, now known as Ottawa University, graduating in 1877. He then entered Laval University, Quebec, to equip himself for the practice of law, and in 1880 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. During this three-year term he also obtained practical experience of his profession in the offices of Andrews, Caron, Andrews and Fitzpatrick, of which the late Sir Adolphe Caron and Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, formerly Chief Justice of Canada, were members. From 1880 to 1883, he practised law at Aylmer, Quebec, but in the latter year ill-health compelled him to spend three years in the woods of the north. In 1886 he was sufficiently restored in health to return to civic conditions, and for two years he acted as secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons. He also became active as a writer of poems, essays and other forms of literary effort which were accepted by numerous Canadian and American publications, and in 1891 he became editor of the “True Witness,” of Montreal, which won an honorable place in Catholic journalism by the literary distinction of its contents and the breadth of its outlook. At the same time he began to acquire fame as a speaker and lecturer, and has been heard in many parts of Canada and the United States. His addresses are marked not only by rare eloquence, but by a spirit of toleration that makes them acceptable in all assemblages. In 1894, the University of Ottawa conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters, and his address on that occasion won tributes from the Earl of Aberdeen and other distinguished men who were present. He also speaks with equal facility in French and English. He has published a number of volumes, including “Obligations,” a legal treatise; “Poems and Lyrics”; “Simon the Abenakis,” a novel; “The Spirit of the Age,” an historical and philosophical essay; and “Irish Canadian Representatives.” The latter publication won high tributes from both Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He is a strong advocate of the cause of Irish freedom and in 1882 drafted the first Home Rule resolution presented in the House of Commons, for which the late Hon. John Costigan stood sponsor. In 1902 he entered the office of the Secretary of the Law Branch of the House of Commons as English translator; in 1908 he became Assistant Law Clerk; and in 1912, when the Parliamentary Counselship was created he was attached as Legal Officer to the Law Branch. In 1911 he was created King’s Counsel, and in 1914 appointed a Commissioner of the High Court of Ontario Dr. Foran is a Roman Catholic in religion; and in 1892 married Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Edwin Davis of Ottawa, who built many of the lighthouses on the Great Lakes. Mrs. Foran is a lady of literary culture who has been of great assistance to her husband in his work. They have two surviving children, Lieut. Herbert P. Foran, a student of McGill University, and Miss Ethel U. Foran.

=Easson, Robert Henry= (Toronto, Ont.), is one of the most prominent figures in the musical manufacturing industry of Canada. He is Vice-President of the Otto Higel Company, Ltd., manufacturers of piano actions and keys and pneumatic actions for player-pianos, with factories at King and Bathurst Streets, Toronto, and also Vice-President of the Otto Higel Company, Inc., of New York City, N.Y. With its Canadian and American branches, this enterprise is one of the largest industries of its kind in America. He is also President of the Canada Action & Key Company, Ltd., Toronto. Mr. Easson was born in Toronto, January 10, 1873, the son of Robert F. Easson, one of the pioneer telegraphers of this country, identified with the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company from its earliest days, and his wife, Millicent Easson. He was educated at the Toronto public and high schools, and began his business career as cashier and office assistant in the firm of M. & L. Samuel, Benjamin & Company, wholesale hardware merchants, Toronto, in 1890. He continued with this firm for ten years when he became manager of the Audit Department of Jenkins & Hardy, assignees and chartered accountants, Toronto. In 1904, he retired from that position to associate himself with the growing business of the Otto Higel Company, and became Vice-President in 1906. Since then the business of the Company has been greatly extended. The musical industries of Canada are now splendidly organized institutions for the development of music in the home, and Mr. Easson has been one of those most influential in bringing about this spirit of co-ordination. He is a member of the National Club and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and also of the Masonic order. In politics he is a Liberal, in religion a Presbyterian, and his recreations are bowling and motoring. On December 28, 1904, he married Winnifred, daughter of the late John Garvin, and has two sons and one daughter. He resides at 407 Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto.

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=Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln=, of Hunter & Deacon, Barristers and Solicitors, 2 Toronto Street, Toronto, was born in London, Ont., January 13, 1870, the son of Rev. W. J. Hunter, M.A., D.D., and Mary J. (Robinson) Hunter. He was educated at Hamilton Collegiate Institute and Osgoode Hall, graduating as barrister at the age of twenty-one. He joined the firm of Ince & Hunter, 1891, continuing this connection for four years, when he became associated with former Mayor A. R. Boswell, K.C., who is now Superintendent of Insurance for the Province of Ontario. He formed his present partnership in 1900. In 1901, he was appointed Census Commissioner for Centre Toronto. He married June 1, 1904, Mary Edith, daughter of Henry Smith, Superintendent of Colonization Roads, Toronto, and has four daughters—Kathleen, Madeline, Norah and Aileen. He is an ex-Vice-President of Centre Toronto Reform Association, and ex-President North Toronto Liberal Club. He is the author of “The Woman in Blue,” a satirical novel published in 1895. His military career began at an early age, and he was gazetted Lieutenant in the 10th Regiment, Royal Grenadiers, in 1901, became Captain in 1907, and Major 1915, being now second in command. When war broke out, he at once became active in every way at his command, speaking constantly at recruiting meetings, associating in many other military and patriotic activities. For two years he was constantly in khaki, and for nearly a year was in command of Filtration Guard, with over 300 men under him. In his patriotic work, he had a most enthusiastic associate in Mrs. Hunter, who is Regent of the Royal Grenadier Chapter, I.O.D.E., whose efforts on behalf of the boys overseas were unceasing and indefatigable. On August 18, 1919, a formal ceremony took place in the Armouries, when the colors of the Regiment were handed over to Major Hunter, who accepted them on behalf of the Regiment, from Major Andrew Duncanson, D.S.O., commander of a guard of 100 men, all of whom had been overseas. These colours were carried by the guard of honour for the Prince of Wales, Colonel in Chief of the Regiment, on his visit to Toronto in August, 1919. Major Hunter has large real estate interests in the city. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, the Ontario Club, Military Institute, Mississauga and Scarboro Golf Clubs, Lake Shore Country Club, Toronto, and the Junior Army and Navy Club, London, England. He is a Liberal and an Anglican. The family reside at 113 Walmer Road, Toronto.

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=Henry, Hon. George Stewart, M.P.P., B.A., LL.B.=, Minister of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario, is not only a practical farmer but an agricultural expert of wide academic training. He was born at King Township, York County, Ont., on July 16, 1871, the son of William and Louisa Henry, the mother’s parents being from Ulster, as was also his father. The subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of Toronto, Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, of which he holds the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. He also spent a year at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., and though equipped for a professional career decided to adopt the vocation of farmer in East York, near Toronto. In this field he proved himself extremely successful, and as a young man took an active part in the public affairs of his district. He was a member of York Township Council from 1903 until 1910, holding the position of Reeve during the last four years of that interval. This carried with it membership in the York County Council, and in 1909 he was elected by his colleagues warden of York, an old and historic office. A vacancy in the Ontario Legislature for the riding of East York necessitated a by-election, and he was nominated in the Conservative interest. He was returned at the head of the poll on September 8, 1913, and at the general elections of the following June was again successful. In the spring of 1918, Sir William Hearst, Prime Minister of Ontario, invited him to enter the Ontario cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, a portfolio he had himself filled for some months after the death of the late Hon. James Duff. This necessitated a by-election in the summer of that year. Mr. Henry was again elected for East York, for the third time in five years. In that office he has pursued a vigorous progressive policy, not only with regard to the development of agriculture in the outlying districts, but in stimulating production in the older settlements. He has also been a leader in the Good Roads Movement; he is a member of the Toronto and York Roads Commission, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Ontario Good Roads Association. He was also a prominent figure in the All-Canada Roads Conference held at Quebec under the Presidency of Sir Lomer Gouin in May, 1919. In addition to conducting a farm of a model character, Mr. Henry is President of the Farmers’ Dairy Company, Ltd., of Toronto. He is a Methodist in religion, and on January 29, 1902, married Anna Ketha, daughter of Rev. F. W. Pickett, of the Toronto Methodist Conference. He resides at Todmorden, on the outskirts of Toronto.

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=Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Page, K.C., B.C.L.=, is one of the leading advocates of Montreal, where he practises at 81 Union Avenue. He was born at Kingsey, Que., on August 3, 1845, the son of the Rev. John Butler, M.A., and educated at the University of Toronto and McGill University, Montreal, taking the B.C.L. degree in 1865 and receiving that of D.C.L. in 1880. During 1862 and 1863, he acted as Private Secretary to Sir John Abbott, afterward Prime Minister of Canada, and at that time Solicitor-General of Quebec Province. He was called to the Quebec Bar in August, 1866, and created Queen’s Counsel in 1887. He was first associated with the firm of Rose (late Sir John Rose) & Ritchie, Advocates, Montreal, and later with the late E. J. Hemming, Q.C., at Drummondville, Que. After residing at Melbourne, Que., for a time, he returned to Montreal in 1870, where he has ever since practised. Until 1881 he was in partnership with the late John Monk, and since then has practised for the most part alone. He was Councillor for the municipality of Longueuil from 1874-77, and also served as School Trustee there. Col. Butler long took an active part in military affairs, and commanded the Prince of Wales’ Regiment from 1889 to 1898. He organized and became the first president of the Montreal Amalgamated Rifle Association and the Montreal Military Institute. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion an Anglican, having been a member of the Diocesan and Provincial Synods over thirty years. In Free Masonry, he was Grand Master in 1894, and has been for many years Chairman of the Committee on Jurisprudence of the Grand Lodge of Quebec. In August, 1870, he married a daughter of the late Valentine Cooke, of Drummondville, Que., and his home address is 52 Fort Street, Montreal.

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=McEvoy, John Millar, B.A., LL.B.= (London, Ont.), is one of the best known barristers in the Western section of the province, and a man of unusual scholastic attainments. He was born at Caradoc, Middlesex County, in 1864, the son of A. M. and Sarah (Northcott) McEvoy—his father coming of a family in County Down, Ireland. He was educated at the Strathroy Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and the Ontario Law School, taking the B.A. degree in 1892 and LL.B. in 1893. As a student, he was a marked man among the faculty, because of his originality of mind and intellectual power, and on graduation was elected a Fellow in Political Science at Toronto University, and in that capacity taught Canadian constitutional history there. On the retirement of Prof. W. J. Ashley, who had been at the head of the Political Science Department, he was placed in temporary charge pending the arrival of Prof. Mavor, the new incumbent from Scotland. He afterward continued as lecturer under Prof. Mavor for one year. At this period he was a prolific writer of pamphlets and magazine essays. He is the author of “The Ontario Township: a History of the Growth of Municipal Institutions in the Province,” printed under Government auspices as the first of the Toronto University studies in political science. He also wrote an “Essay on Currency and Banking,” which was awarded the Ramsay Scholarship and printed at the request of the leading bankers of Canada. Another essay of his on “Karl Marx’s Theory of Value” was declared by Prof. Ashley to be the ablest exposition of the abstract theory of value that it had been his good fortune to have heard or read on any occasion. At the invitation of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, he contributed a series of articles to their publication, “Annals,” upon subjects of economic and historical importance—to Canadians especially. On giving up his academic career in the middle nineties he returned to Middlesex County, and settled down to the practice of law in London, Ont., where he has ever since resided. As a barrister, he has been identified with many important cases. He was associated with the late E. F. B. Johnston, K.C., in the defence of Gerald Sifton, charged with the murder of his father, which ran through three trials and finally resulted in the acquittal of the accused. He was also associated with Mr. Johnston and Mr. W. R. (now Justice) Riddell, K.C., as one of the counsel for Hon. J. R. Stratton in the Royal Commission to investigate a charge of attempted bribery, preferred by the late R. R. Gamey, M.P.P. for Manitoulin. This was a political cause célèbre, and resulted in a victory for the defence. For a quarter of a century, Mr. McEvoy has been intimately associated with the fortunes of the Liberal party in his district. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons in East Middlesex in the general elections of 1904, and for London in the general elections of 1911. At the Ontario elections of 1908 he also contested the London seat against Sir Adam Beck, but was defeated. Mr. McEvoy is a strong advocate of the tariff-for-revenue-only principle and of an Anglo-Saxon alliance, and is a member of the Ontario Club, Toronto, a headquarters of Liberalism. In 1894 he married a daughter of John Anderson, of East Williams, Ont. He has one son, Captain A. M. McEvoy, of the C.E.F., and one daughter, Miss Gladys, at home.

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=Chambers, Col. Ernest John.= Col. Ernest John Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was appointed to that position March 1st, 1904. He is the son of Edward Thomas and Louisa Percy (Davies) Chambers and was born in Penkridge, Staffordshire, England, April 16th, 1862, coming to Canada in 1870. He was educated at the Prince Albert School, St. Henri, Quebec, and the Montreal High School. Col. Chambers belongs to the same family as Captain Chambers, R.N., who commanded the flotilla on Lake Champlain during the Revolutionary War with the now United States of America. Captain Chambers, afterwards Admiral, served as a midshipman under Captain Cook at the great siege and taking of Quebec. Another of the same family was an officer in the British Army, took part in most of the fighting in the Niagara Peninsula, 1812-13, and was taken prisoner. When, February 3, 1916, fire destroyed the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, the Black Rod, the emblem of authority carried by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was burnt, and Col. Chambers was ordered to procure a new one. The new emblem, which was subscribed for by the members of the United Kingdom Branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, is similar to the Black Rods of the House of Lords and the Senates of Australia and South Africa, is made of ebony with the “Lyon” crest, butt piece and knob of solid gold, and bears wreaths of maple leaves. The shield is engraved with the royal monogram, and the butt piece contains a sovereign of the year 1904, when Col. Chambers was appointed, and the coin is to pass to his family as an heirloom. In 1885 Col. Chambers acted as field correspondent for the “Montreal Star” during the Riel insurrection, and served as a volunteer galloper to General Middleton at Batoche and Fish Creek, and wears the medal and clasp, the Long Service Medal, and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration. He participated in the operations against Big Bear’s band of Indians. In 1888-9 Col. Chambers was Managing-Director and Editor of the “Calgary Herald,” and for two years was joint proprietor and editor of the Canadian “Military Gazette.” Since 1912 Col. Chambers has been Secretary of the Canadian Branch Empire Parliamentary Association. Since 1908 he has been editor of the Canadian Parliamentary Guide. He has done good work in the field of Literature and is the historian of several of our most distinguished Canadian Regiments. In fact he has been a prominent and clever contributor to a variety of publications on Parliamentary, historical, military, hunting and yachting subjects. He is the author of many books on historical and military subjects. He was connected with the Canadian Militia for many years. When but a boy Col. Chambers commanded the Montreal High School Cadet Rifles. Later, in 1902, he became Captain and Adjutant of the 6th Fusiliers, Montreal, now the Grenadier Guards of Canada. In 1910 he was appointed District Intelligence Officer, Montreal, with the rank of Captain in the Corps of Guides and was promoted to Major in 1911, Lieut.-Col. in 1915, Colonel in 1917. In August, 1914, at the outbreak of the great war, Col. Chambers was appointed Censor at the Military Headquarters in Ottawa, and July 15th, 1915, Chief Press Censor for Canada, and continued to perform his duties as such. In the discharge of his duties he proved an ideal officer, and his name was brought to the attention of the Secretary of State for War for distinguished service. August 31, 1898, Col. Chambers married Bertha Macmillan, of Kingston, Ontario. He has one son and one daughter. He is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf, the Rivermead Golf and the Coulonge Fish and Game Clubs. For recreation he indulges in shooting, fishing, yachting, and golf. He resides at 325 Daly Ave., Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Elliot, Maj.-General Harry Macintire, C.M.G.=, Master-General of Ordnance, Headquarters Staff, Ottawa, is one of those officers originally trained in the Imperial Army, who did much to create the machinery which enabled Canada to play her part as a fighting element from the earlier stages of the great war. He is a son of General Elliot, a retired officer of the Imperial Army, and was born at Bangalore, India, where his father was at that time stationed, on December 3, 1867. He was educated at Carshalton School, England, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, February 17, 1888, and a Lieutenant three years later. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery on August 17, 1898. He saw active service in South Africa 1900, and China (Boxer Rebellion) 1900-1901. On return to England he was appointed Instructor in Gunnery, Chatham (Eng.), in 1901, and on June 1, 1905, was made an Instructor of the First Class, continuing in that capacity until March 29, 1906, when he was attached to the Military Forces of Canada as Instructor in Gunnery. He continued in that capacity until March 29, 1909. On June 9, 1908, he was promoted simultaneously to the rank of Major in the Royal Artillery (Imperial) and the Canadian Permanent Forces. He returned to England in 1909, and was stationed in Ireland till 1911. On May 1, 1911, he became Director of Artillery on the Headquarters Staff, Ottawa. He was promoted to the rank of Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel, on June 9, 1912, and became Assistant-Adjutant General of Military District No. 2 (Toronto) on March 1, 1913. On May 17, 1915, he became full Colonel, and on March 31, 1916, was appointed Master-General of Ordnance with the rank of Brigadier-General. On November 29 of the same year he became temporary Major-General. During the war he was for a short time on active service overseas, and was honoured by his Majesty with the decoration of a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. On January 10, 1899, General Elliot married a daughter of Dr. W. N. Wickwire, of Halifax, N.S. Mrs. Elliot died in 1911, leaving four children—Irene (b. 1900, died 1916), William (b. 1902), Aileen (b. 1905), Violet (b. 1908). His favourite recreations are riding and golfing, and he belongs to the Army and Navy Club (London, Eng.) and the Rideau and Country Clubs (Ottawa). In religion he is an Anglican.

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=Duclos, Arnold Willard, B.A., B.C.L., K.C.= (Ottawa, Ont.), Deputy-Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada, is the son of Rev. R. P. Duclos (Canadian) and Sophie Jeanrenaud, of Geneve, Switzerland. He was born at Ste. Hyacinthe, Quebec, April 7, 1873, and was educated at the High School and McGill University, Montreal, and graduated in arts in 1894 and in law in 1897, and received the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L. Called to the Quebec Bar in 1898, he practised in Montreal for a short time and then left for Ottawa, where he practised with Mr. Henry Aylen, K.C., under the firm name of Aylen & Duclos, barristers, advocates, etc., and was associated with Mr. Aylen in several important cases in the districts of Ottawa and Pontiac. He was made a King’s Counsel in 1911. In 1915, Mr. Duclos joined the legal firm of Devlin & Ste. Marie, Hull, Quebec, and in 1918 assisted, in various professional capacities, in the matter of exemptions in the Central Court of Appeal (Judge Duff). In January, 1919, he started to practise alone, and in the following June was appointed Deputy-Registrar of the Exchequer Court of Canada, and Official Law Reporter of the Exchequer Court Reports. Mr. Duclos practised before the Supreme and Exchequer Courts, and acted as counsel in divorce matters before the Senate Divorce Committee. From 1905 to his appointment as Deputy-Registrar, he was Assistant-Editor of Official Reports of the Province of Quebec. He also revised and edited the sixth edition of “How Canada is Governed,” by Sir J. G. Bourinot. Having previously held various other offices, in 1918 Mr. Duclos was elected President of the Ottawa Valley Graduates Society of McGill. He is an officer of the University Club of Ottawa, President of St. Andrew’s Church Choir; a Director of the Ottawa Choral Society, and a prominent figure in the several musical organizations of Ottawa, and is a member of the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club. Hon. Mr. Justice Duclos is a brother. September, 1900, Mr. Duclos married Grace Van Dusen, daughter of the late Thomas J. Gillelan, of the American Bank Note Company. They have two daughters, Elise Adrienne and Madeleine G. For recreation, he takes pleasure in tennis, fishing, and music. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and his residence is 152 James Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Hogg, William Drummond, K.C.=, barrister-at-law, Ottawa, is one of the most distinguished figures in Canadian legal circles. He was born at Perth, Lanark County, Ont., on February 29, 1848, the son of David Hogg, a prominent furniture manufacturer of that town. His father was a son of Lieut. David Hogg, of Edinburgh, Scotland, who became an officer of the Royal Artillery, and in that capacity took part in the siege of Copenhagen, and was present at the Battle of the Pyramids, the Battle of the Nile, and other historic engagements of the Napoleonic wars. James Hogg, the Scottish poet and the “Ettrick Shepherd” of “Noctes Ambrosianæ,” was a relative. David Hogg (who died in 1882) came to Canada just fifty years previously and became one of the pioneer settlers of Lanark County, where, at the village of Perth, he established the industry above-mentioned. The mother of the subject of this sketch, Isabella Inglis, was a native of Clackmannan, Scotland, who came to Canada in 1831 and settled with relatives in Lanark village. These relatives were the Hall family, with branches in many parts of Upper Canada, and whose name is identified with the early history of such towns and cities as Peterboro, Sarnia, Brockville, and Perth. She died in 1881. Mr. Hogg was educated at the High School, Perth, Ont., and commenced the study of law in the office of E. G. Malloch, Crown Attorney for Lanark County. Subsequently, he spent several years in the offices of Paterson, Bain & Paterson, Toronto, and was called to the Ontario Bar at Hilary term, 1874. He commenced practice at Ottawa in 1875 in partnership with the late Daniel O’Connor. For some years after the death of the latter he practised alone, but on the admission of his son to the Bar the firm became Hogg & Hogg. The practice of Mr. Hogg has largely lain in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and he is a recognized authority on questions of prerogative and constitutional law. Though a Conservative in party leanings, he has never sought political office, and one of the convincing proofs of his professional standing is the fact that during the Liberal régime of Sir Wilfrid Laurier his services were frequently sought in connection with important and intricate Government litigation. He is a member of St. Andrews Society of Ottawa, and was for many years solicitor of that body. He has also had the honour of being elected by his fellow barristers a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and is now a life Bencher of that Society, and was some years ago created King’s Counsel. When the late James Bethune, K.C., of Toronto, a relative by marriage, passed away, a long friendship of the most intimate personal, and professional character was severed. Mr. Hogg holds very strong views on the subject of temperance, and at various times held all the executive offices of the Sons of Temperance. He married Louisa Agnes, daughter of Dr. Charles Rattray, of Cornwall, Ont., and has two sons. His business address is the Trust Building, Ottawa.

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=Gwynne, Brigadier-General Reginald John, C.M.G.=, Deputy-Adjutant-General for Canada, Headquarters Staff, Ottawa, is a native of the motherland, but has been intimately identified with the marvellous development of Canada’s military power during the past few years. He was born in London, England, on September 16, 1863, the son of the late J. E. A. Gwynne, J.P., F.S.A., F.R.S., etc., of Folkington Manor, Polegate, Sussex, England, and his wife, Mary Earle Purvis. He was educated at Cheam, Eton, and Pembroke College, Oxford. After coming to Canada, he became identified with the Active Militia of this country, and commanded the 16th Horse, a Western organization, from 1907 to 1911. In 1911 and 1912, he was in command of the 7th Cavalry Brigade, and in 1913 he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff at Ottawa as Director of Cadet Services for the Dominion. In 1914, the year of the outbreak of the great war, he became Director of Mobilization, with the rank of Brevet-Colonel and in that capacity performed very important services in connection with the organization of Canada’s overseas forces. In 1916, he was promoted to the rank of Director-General of Mobilization, a post he filled until the close of the war, and in the following year raised to the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1919 he was appointed Deputy-Adjutant-General for Canada. In recognition of his services he was created by His Majesty a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. On May 16, 1894, he married Mary Mayall, daughter of S. Taylor, J.P., and Janet Mayall Taylor, of Hathershaw, Oldham, England, and has one daughter, Evelyn Violet. In religion he is an adherent of the Church of England, and he is a member of the Rideau Club, Ottawa.

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=King, Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie, C.M.G.= (Ottawa, Ont.), Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, was born at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ont., on December 17, 1874, the son of John King, K.C., and his wife, Isabel Grace, daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie. He was educated at Toronto University (B.A. 1895; LL.B. 1896; M.A. 1897), the University of Chicago, and Harvard University (A.M. 1898; Ph.D. 1909). He was one of the first Canadian students to specialize in social science. For a time he was a reporter on various Toronto newspapers. In 1900, when Sir William Mulock, then Postmaster-General in the Laurier Cabinet, established the Federal Department of Labour, Mr. King was chosen as Deputy-Minister to organize it. In 1908, he was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of North Waterloo, and subsequently was promoted by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to the post of Minister of Labour. He was defeated, in company with the majority of Liberal candidates, in the Federal elections in 1911. During his years of service in the Labour Department, Mr. King was responsible for much important permanent legislation with regard to industrial disputes, immigration, and the opium traffic, and served on numerous Royal Commissions on matters pertaining to Labour and to the problem of Oriental Immigration. On different occasions, he represented Canada on important missions to England. In 1909, he was appointed by the Imperial Government one of the British representatives on the Anti-Opium Commission, which met at Shanghai, China. In June of 1914, he was appointed Director of an Investigation of Industrial Relations under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. In this position, he was instrumental in bringing about better relations between employers and employees in the coal mines of Colorado, where for years there had been serious industrial strife. Throughout the period of the War, he rendered a like service to several other of the largest industries in America engaged in the production of war necessities. His researches were subsequently incorporated in a volume entitled “Industry and Humanity,” which has obtained international recognition as one of the most searching and advanced considerations of an all-important question. Mr. King has always maintained his connection with the Canadian Liberal Party. From 1911 to 1914, he was President of the Ontario Reform Association. In December, 1917, he was the Liberal candidate in North York. At the National Liberal Convention, held in Ottawa, August, 1919, he was elected Leader of the Liberal Party in succession to the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the following clubs—Rideau (Ottawa), Ontario (Toronto), Century (New York), Harvard (Boston and New York). He is a Presbyterian in religion and unmarried.

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=Hanna (the late), Hon. William John, K.C., M.P.P.= (Sarnia Ont.), was born in Adelaide township, County of Middlesex, Ont., on October 13, 1862, the son of George and Jane (Murdock) Hanna. The son of a farmer, he was educated at the local schools and soon developed great capacity as a student, and decided to put himself through for the legal profession, graduating from Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He was called to the Bar in 1890, and commenced the practice of law as a barrister at Sarnia, Ont., eventually becoming head of the firm of H. Le Sueur and McKinley of that place, and was created a K.C. in 1908. He soon became active with the Conservative party, and in 1896 became the candidate of that party for the House of Commons in West Lambton against the late Justice Lister, and was defeated. His party still had confidence in him, and in 1900 he was again nominated for the Federal House and again defeated, West Lambton always having been a great Liberal stronghold. Two years later, in 1902, Mr. Whitney, then leader of the Opposition in Ontario, in looking for a strong man to help him in Western Ontario, prevailed upon Mr. Hanna to run for the Provincial Legislature and undertake the work of organizing Western Ontario. He accepted, made an amazing turnover in that portion of the Liberal stamping grounds, was elected, and came to Toronto in 1905. When the Conservative government came into power, Mr. Whitney invited him to become one of his cabinet, and he chose the portfolio of Provincial Secretary, as in this position his duties would neither come in contact or conflict with the position he held as chief legal adviser to the largest oil corporation in Canada. His public life was free from reproach of mixing up private interests and friendships with his public duties, and as a legal practitioner an extraordinary fact is recorded of him: that while representing one of the most important corporations in the country, no case he had to handle ever went into court; he had a singular and commendable theory that it was the duty of a lawyer to keep his clients out of court. He was elected again to the Ontario Legislature in 1908 and 1911, and appointed a member of the Inter-Provincial Conference held at Ottawa in 1910. His desire for a rest and to complete his great work in connection with his pet hobby of prison reform led him to decline a portfolio when the Hearst government was formed, although he remained in the cabinet as minister without portfolio; and in connection with his services as a public servant in Ontario, it may be said that, though not a prohibitionist by conviction, he was the most efficient administrator of the liquor license system that this country has ever known. He created the machinery for the administration of the prohibition law, which has proved as effective as was possible. His natural taste for politics did not die out on his retirement from office, and he became one of Sir Robert Borden’s most trusted private advisers on public policy. He perfected a system of prison reform which, perhaps, is the most sensible and humane prison system in the world; in fact, his ten years or more of service given to the Province of Ontario as administrator of its public charities, its license laws, its prisons, asylums, and other institutions, constitute a record so progressive and enlightened that the full value of his services will long continue to be recognized by sociologists with a habit for research. In 1917, Sir Robert Borden induced him to accept the post of Food Controller of Canada; and Mr. Hanna at once applied himself to the task of organizing that department, making his single aim the increase of production and the conserving of foodstuffs in order to ensure a steady supply to the soldiers in the field and the civilian populations of Britain, France and Italy. He encountered great difficulties owing to the misapprehension of the public, which demanded a reduction of prices, a measure that, by increasing consumption, would have defeated the above-named object. He however, refused to be moved by popular clamor, and in co-operation with Mr. H. H. Hoover rendered great service toward relieving the overseas populations of the danger of starvation. His exertions told on his physique, and early in 1918 he resigned this office, leaving it well organized for his successor. On the retirement of Mr. Walter C. Teagle from the post of President of the Imperial Oil Company to become President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Mr. Hanna was elected his successor. In that capacity, he, in December, 1918, introduced the Industrial Relationship plan in all the plants of the Company from coast to coast, and also a series of sickness, death and insurance benefits for workmen. Grief at the death of his only son, Flight-Lieutenant Neil Hanna, who was killed by accident in Italy in November, 1918, a few days after the signing of the armistice, undermined his health, and on March 20, 1919, he died suddenly while on a vacation in Georgia. When he was borne to his last resting-place at Sarnia, his funeral was attended by public men from all parts of Canada and many sections of the United States. The late Mr. Hanna was twice married: first to Jean J. Neil, who died in 1891, leaving one son, the late Neil Hanna; and secondly to Maud McAdams, by whom he had two daughters. In religion he was a Methodist, and a member of many important clubs and philanthropic organizations.

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=Gale, Robert Henry=, one of the leading public men of Vancouver, of which city he has been a resident for nearly a decade, is a native of the city of Quebec. After an excellent business training in the ancient capital of Canada, he went to British Columbia in 1910, and located at Vancouver. He engaged in business as a contractor, and is at present manager of the British Columbia Contractor’s Supply Company, Limited, one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the province. Less than five years ago he entered municipal politics, and was elected alderman for 1916 and 1917. His services during his comparatively brief term on the City Council made him so widely popular that his friends urged him to run for Mayor in 1918. He accepted the nomination, and in January of that year was elected over the retiring mayor, Mr. Malcolm McBeath, who had sought re-election, by a majority of 300, the largest ever given to a mayoralty aspirant in the history of Vancouver. In January, 1919, he was re-elected by acclamation, it being generally conceded that it would be futile for any rival to contest the office with him. In April of 1919, the provincial government of which Hon. John Oliver is the head appointed him to the newly-created office of Public Utilities Commissioner for British Columbia. By the tax-paying public, the appointment was considered an admirable one, because of the high capacity Mr. Gale had revealed as a municipal administrator. The Great War Veterans’ Association, however, made a vigorous protest on the ground that all new offices within the gift of the government should go to returned soldiers. The Oliver administration deemed it necessary to yield to the agitation, and cancelled the appointment of Mr. Gale, accepting the nominee of the G.W.V.A., Lieutenant-Colonel Retallick, a civil engineer by profession, who had rendered excellent service overseas. Under the circumstances, the cancellation of the appointment was in no sense a reflection on the character or capacity of Mr. Gale. In politics the latter is a Liberal, but has never sought election as a political candidate. During the general strike that was started in Vancouver during the early summer of 1919 as an outgrowth of a general strike at Winnipeg and other Western towns, Mr. Gale showed great tact and firmness in handling a very difficult situation, so that the attempt to disorganize municipal government and upset the present economic system was of comparatively brief duration.

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=Elson, John Melbourne= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born in Byron, Ont., Dec. 25th, 1880. Son of George and Charlotte (Wilkin) Elson. Educated at London, Ont., Collegiate Institute and Western University of that city. He entered journalism in 1903 as a member of the staff of the London “News,” since merged, and thereafter his rise was rapid. Shortly joined the staff of the Montreal “Gazette” and in 1905 during the late Joseph Chamberlain’s Tariff Reform Campaign he went to Great Britain to study political and economic conditions and wrote special articles thereon to Canadian papers. On his return to Canada he became a member of the staff of the Toronto “Globe” and in 1907 was appointed editor of the Toronto “Sunday World.” Subsequently in 1909 he became Assistant Managing Director of the World Publishing Company, and in 1910 purchased the St. Catharines “Evening Journal” which he has ever since conducted. Mr. Elson is a terse and gifted writer, with a wide fund of information. He has travelled considerably on this continent and abroad, and is a gifted public speaker. When acting as a newspaper correspondent he secured the only interview granted by Baron Komura, the Japanese plenipotentiary, who negotiated the peace treaty between Japan and Russia at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, except the official statement given to the Associated Press in the United States. Since becoming a resident of St. Catharines, he has been active in public affairs, and in patriotic objects like the Red Cross and the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He was elected Mayor of St. Catharines, Jan. 1st, 1919, by an unusually large majority. He is a member of the Council of the Board of Trade; and has served as President of the St. Catharines Canadian Club, and was for seven years President of the Lincoln County Liberal Association. He was formerly Vice-President of the Niagara District Hydro Radial Union, and has been an active member of Soldiers’ Aid Commission ever since it was organized in St. Catharines in the early part of war. He is a member of the Masonic Order. In 1911 he published a brochure, “Reciprocity, The Outcome of Evolution” which had a wide circulation in Canada and the United States. For two years he was a member of the Collegiate Institute Board. Was made member of the Advisory Council of the Repatriation Committee of the Dominion of Canada. In religion he is an Anglican and in September, 1907, married Wilhelmina M., daughter of W. M. Faulds of Mount Brydges, Ont., and has two children: a son and a daughter.