Part 10

=Lemieux, Auguste, K.C., F.R.C.I., LL.B.= Few barristers in Ottawa are better known or more popular than the subject of this sketch, who occupies offices at No. 30 Rideau Street. Mr. Lemieux was born in Montreal, February 20, 1874. His father, H. A. Lemieux, was Inspector of Customs for the Province of Quebec until 1911. Some of his elder brothers are Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, K.C., P.C., M.P., ex-Postmaster-General and Minister of Marine and Fisheries in the Laurier Cabinet; Dr. L. J. Lemieux, Sheriff of Montreal, and Chairman of the Board of Censors of the Province of Quebec, and Dr. Gustave Lemieux, M.L.A., for Gaspé, P.Q. Mr. Auguste Lemieux received his education at L’Assomption College and St. Mary’s College (Jesuits), Montreal, graduated from Laval University with honors and was conferred the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in 1898. He was called to the Quebec Bar in the same year and to the Ontario Bar four years later. In 1908, at the early age of 34, he was created K.C., and practised, successfully, his profession in Montreal from 1898 until 1902, when he located in Ottawa, and has since established a wide and ever increasing clientele in that city. His brilliant defence saved Laderoute from the gallows in the Bryson murder trial of 1906, and Blondin (charged with murdering Dr. Empey) at L’Orignal, in 1910. He was Councillor of the Ontario Bar Association from 1910 to 1913; President of L’Institut Canadien Français, of Ottawa, 1903 to 1905; President of La Société du Monument National, Ottawa, 1909 to 1910; President of the Belcourt (Liberal) Club for several years; Vice-President of the Ottawa Reform Association, 1904 to 1906; President of Le Club Littéraire Canadien Français, Ottawa, 1911 to 1918. He is a member of the Y.M.C.A., and also a member of the Ontario Club of Toronto. Mr. Lemieux has been frequently mentioned as candidate for Parliament. He is the author of the work on the Quebec Law of Landlord and Tenant and writes frequently for the French and English Press. In April, 1914, the French Government, in recognition of Mr. Lemieux’s proficiency in French literature, conferred on him the decoration of “Officier d’Académie” (Academic Palms), through Monsieur Réné Viviani, then Minister of Public Education of France. He was also elected, in 1913, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute of London, England, for life. Mr. Lemieux is an eloquent platform speaker and has frequently rendered services to his party. He married Esther Barbeau, daughter of the late Henry Barbeau, General Manager of the City and District Savings Bank and Assistant Receiver-General, Montreal, in October, 1899, and has one son and two daughters. He resides at 16 Somerset Street West.

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=Lawlor, H. W.= (Hawkesbury, Ont.), was born at Hawkesbury, September 12, 1863, of Irish and American parentage. The son of Richard Lawlor, of Hawkesbury, for many years Coroner of this district, and grandson of William Lawlor, for over forty years manager for Hamilton Bros., and Sarah Hersey, daughter of Z. S. M. Hersey, a New England pioneer, who settled in Hawkesbury shortly after the British-American War of 1812, and who at the time of his death was the town’s most prominent citizen; he was educated in the Provincial Schools and graduated from Osgoode Hall in law in 1890. In 1896, was appointed agent for the Justice Department in his district, and has conducted some important litigation on behalf of the Crown, the most prominent being the Exchequer Court Case of Stewart vs. King, in which the late B. B. Osler made his last public appearance. He has been Police Magistrate of Hawkesbury for over eighteen years and has never had a conviction appealed or quashed. Has been Local Solicitor for the Canadian Northern Railway since the date of its construction; is Town Solicitor and also Solicitor for the several banking institutions. Has never entered Municipal politics, but has sat on the Board of Education; was first President of Hawkesbury Board of Trade. Is a Presbyterian and a Liberal-Unionist.

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=McNeillie, James Richardson=, Clerk and Treasurer, County of Victoria, Lindsay, Ont., was born in the Parish of Johnstone, Dumfries-shire, Scotland, July 18, 1846, and came to Canada with his parents, Rachel Kerr and James Richardson McNeillie, public school teacher, in 1853, who settled in the County of Durham, where he was educated in the Public School. He spent eleven years, from 1861 to 1872, in the village of Omemee, where he was associated in the drug business and in municipal work with Mr. Thomas Matchett, who was the first member of the Legislative Assembly for South Victoria after Confederation. From 1872 to 1875 he was engaged in the business department of the Montreal Telegraph Company at Toronto, but returned to the County of Victoria on the invitation of the Hon. S. C. Wood, to become his assistant in the office of Clerk and Treasurer. When the latter became Provincial Secretary, Mr. McNeillie retained the same position under Mr. Matchett from 1875, until his own appointment as Clerk and Treasurer of the County, in 1900. When the Ross Memorial Hospital was founded by the late James Ross, of Montreal, in 1902, he was appointed a Governor under the Act of Incorporation, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Trust. He is also a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and was Chairman of the Board of Education of the Town of Lindsay for nine years, following on nineteen years’ service as member. Always taking an active interest in movements for the betterment of the criminal and mentally enfeebled classes of the Province, he was President of the Canadian Conference of Charities and Correction for the year 1909. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion a Presbyterian. He married Esther (deceased), daughter of William Thorton, of Emily, January, 1872; and Loretta, daughter of Ralph Gardiner, of Morpeth, 1882. He has three sons, James Kerr, Ralph Gardiner and George Gardiner, and one daughter, Alice Gardiner. J. K. McNeillie has been successively, Divisional Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Ry., General Superintendent of the Canadian Government Railways, and now Superintendent of the Susquehanna Division of the Delaware and Hudson Railway. R. G. McNeillie is Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific Ry. at Winnipeg, Man., and G. G. McNeillie is a member of the Albert Kerr Company, Limited, Toronto.

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=Chadwick, Edward Marion, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Cravendale, Township of Ancaster, Ont., Sept. 22, 1840, and is the third son of the late John Craven Chadwick, Guelph, Ont. He received a thorough scholastic training. The bend of his mind being in the direction of the law, he pursued his studies therefor, and was called to the Bar and associated himself with the late W. H. Beatty, and has been a partner in the firms successively formed by him in which many prominent members of the legal profession have been partners, during a period of more than fifty years, the firms being recognized as among the most important engaged in their profession in Ontario. While perhaps it is unnecessary to say anything here as to Mr. Chadwick’s ability as an author, we cannot refrain from noting the publication of a work entitled “Ontarian Families” (1894), being the genealogies of United Empire Loyalist and other pioneer families of Upper Canada; he has also been a writer for magazines on heraldic subjects, in which he is reputed to be the leading authority on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Chadwick was for a number of years an officer in the Queen’s Own Rifles, retiring in 1882, with the rank of Major. For the last forty years Mr. Chadwick has been identified with church work, being an indefatigable worker, and he at present holds the important office of Treasurer of St. Alban’s Cathedral.

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=Hackett, Edward= (Orangeville, Ont.), was born at Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, son of the late William and Mary Hackett. He was educated at Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Santry School, Dublin, graduating from the Royal University in the Irish Capital in 1905, with the degree of B.A., and is recognized as being one of the prominent educationalists of the Province of Ontario. Mr. Hackett came to Canada in 1908, and before leaving Ireland, was Senior Mathematical Master in the Blue Coat School, Dublin, an institution which was established by Charles the Second. He attended the Faculty of Toronto University, and taught mathematics in the Galt Collegiate Institute for the year 1909-10, also at Meaford High School for four years (1911-15), and succeeded as principal the late Alexander Steele, who had been the head of the Orangeville High School for upwards of thirty years, the present staff consisting of five teachers and the splendid standing and prestige of the school being maintained under his principalship. In 1914, Principal Hackett married Winnifred, the daughter of Dr. J. G. Clarke, of Meaford. He is a member of the Canadian Club of Orangeville, and Chairman of the Public Library Board, and is a member of the Masonic, Oddfellows and Orange Orders. He is an adherent of the Church of England, and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. Recognizing the usefulness of the Cadet movement he has taken the course prescribed for instructors and the Orangeville High School Cadets have attained much efficiency under his direction. Principal Hackett is a man in the prime of life, well informed on all matters of national importance, and gives generously of his time and talents in the promotion of the best interests of the community, in which he occupies so important a position. His chief recreation is motoring.

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=Hunter, Lt.-Col. A. T.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born on the 25th of October, 1869, and after having received a thorough primary and elementary education at the public and high schools, he entered the Toronto University where, in 1890, he had the distinction of having the degree of LL.B. conferred upon him. He was duly admitted to the Bar in 1892 and at once embarked in the active practice of his profession, in which, he has been very successful. He maintains a handsome suite of offices at 706 Temple Building, Bay and Richmond Streets, where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice, his services being constantly retained by some of the leading firms and corporations of the city and province. Colonel Hunter is prominently identified with the Masonic craft, and is an active and influential member of the I.O.F., A.O.U.W., and a Past Master of L.O.L. No. 613. As an author Colonel Hunter is well known, and among the works emanating from his pen may be named “Power of Sale Under Mortgage,” “Foreclosure Under Mortgage,” and “Real Property Statutes.” The Colonel, prior to this war, was courageous in pointing out in speeches and contributions to the “Military Gazette,” absurdities in our military organization. Colonel Hunter has devoted some time to politics and was candidate for the riding of West Toronto in the Dominion House, of the McCarthyites in 1896, and of the Liberals in 1904. In 1914, when war was declared by Germany on England and her colonies, Colonel Hunter at once responded to the call to duty, laid aside his business and other connections, and went overseas with the 4th Battalion C.E.F. On April 23, 1915, he was wounded in the battle of St. Julien, but returned to duty in time for the battle of Festubert; after this he was placed on duty in England, and later returned to Canada on leave of absence; while in Canada he acted as Brigade-Major at Camp Borden in 1916. He again returned to England on active service, and in February, 1917, was attached to the Princess Patricias on service in France and was present with them at Vimy Ridge. He returned to Canada in November of same year and has been gazetted Lt.-Colonel of the 12th Regt. York Rangers.

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=Groves, Abraham, M.D.= (Fergus, Ont.), was born in the town of Peterboro’, on Sept. 8, 1847. He is a son of Abraham Groves, and Margaret, daughter of Gideon Gibson, one of the early pioneers of Canada, who served through the war of 1812-15, and fought at Lundy’s Lane. Mr. Groves came to this country with his parents from the County of Wicklow, Ireland, about 1826, and settled in the vicinity of Peterboro’. In 1856 Mr. Groves removed to the County of Wellington, taking up his abode in the Township of Garafraxa, where he pursued the occupation of farmer. During the Mackenzie Rebellion Mr. Groves took part on the Loyalists’ side. The fruit of the marriage was thirteen children, the subject of this sketch being the second eldest of the family. He at first attended the common schools, but afterwards entered the High School at Fergus. Some time after leaving school he resolved to study medicine, and in 1868 entered the Toronto School of Medicine, where he remained until 1871, graduating M.D. in the same year, from the Toronto University. After graduation he at once went to Fergus and entered into partnership with the late Dr. Munro, under the firm name of Munro & Groves, which partnership existed two years. After dissolution Dr. Groves practised by himself until 1874, when he took into partnership Dr. John Wishart, now lecturer at the Western University, at London, Ont., which partnership existed one year, Dr. Wishart then retiring. However, again in 1879, he took into partnership Dr. Thomas Chisholm, the association continuing for a year. In 1882 he again took another partner, Dr. J. F. McMahon, now of Toronto, but this combination too dissolved in 1883, and since that time Dr. Groves has singly conducted one of the largest practices in Fergus. In 1869 he graduated from the old Toronto Military School; in 1882 he was elected to the Village council of Fergus, and was re-elected for the years of 1883 and 1884. He was elected reeve for 1885, but owing to his position of surgeon of the county poor house, he could not retain his seat. Dr. Groves is largely interested in real estate in the village, owning some of the finest buildings there, among which structures may be mentioned the Royal Bank building, constructed of brown stone. He is a member of the Mercer Lodge, A.F. and A.M., No. 347; is surgeon and member of the Oddfellows’ lodge No. 73, and has held all of the offices in that order. He is also a member of the Royal Templars, and physician to lodge No. 124. In 1878 Dr. Groves was appointed physician and surgeon to the Grand Trunk Railway at Fergus, which position he still holds. In 1882 he was appointed physician and surgeon to the Wellington County House of Industry, and this office he still likewise retains. In politics he has held aloof from parties, though sincerely interested in the welfare of the country. He is a member of the Church of England, and has been churchwarden for twelve years of St. James’ Church, Fergus. He married in 1874, Jennie, daughter of the late William Gibbon, of Elora, and by this lady has a family of two children; she died in 1886. On January 29, 1910, he married Ethel May Burke, only daughter of the late D. S. Burke, Esq., of Fergus. Dr. Groves enjoys the repute of being a very skilful surgeon, and he was the first to perform in Canada the operation technically known to the profession as _supra pubic lithotomy_. In January, 1901, he established, in Fergus, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, which has already become widely known throughout Western Ontario. He also installed the Fergus and Elora Electric Light Plant, since taken over by the Hydro-Electric. In 1911 he was tendered by unanimous vote the Conservative nomination for the House of Commons for the South Riding of the County of Wellington, but the pressure of his professional work prevented his accepting.

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=Grange, Edward Wilkinson= (Ottawa, Ont.), was born at Napanee, July 4, 1876, a son of Alexander W. Grange and his wife, Annabella Daly; educated at Napanee Collegiate Institute and Victoria University, taking an Honor Course in Modern Languages at the latter institution, from which he graduated with a degree of B.A., in 1899, upon which he took up journalism as a profession and has since had a very extended experience, serving first on “The Toronto News” for three years, afterwards on “The Mail and Empire.” Was in charge of “The Globe’s” Ottawa Bureau and contributor to editorial columns. During Mr. Grange’s University course he was editor of the “Acta Victoriana,” in his final year; and President of Athletic Union and first holder of the college “Athletic Stick”; was editor of Eastern Press Service, serving all papers in the Maritime Provinces during Parliamentary sessions, made Honorary Lieutenant in Canadian Expeditionary Forces and had charge of daily press bulletin service to troops Overseas; has been Ottawa correspondent of Toronto “Globe” since 1907, also of “The Chronicle,” Halifax; “Telegraph,” St. John; “Standard,” London, Eng. Secretary for three years of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and President, 1912-13. Resigned from “Globe” staff, November, 1918, to engage in special work for government branches connected with re-construction problems and also to look after private business interests. Mr. Grange is a Liberal and was nominated in April, 1915, as Liberal candidate for the House of Commons for the riding of Lennox and Addington. Ran as an Independent-Liberal supporting Military Service Act in General Election of 1917. Belongs to the following clubs: Rideau Club, Rivermead Golf Club and Rideau Aquatic Club, Ottawa. He married, in 1915, Marion McDougall, a daughter of the late John Lorne McDougall, C.M.G., Auditor-General of Canada, and has one son, Edward Alexander McDougall, born June 26, 1917.

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=Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau= (Toronto, Ont.), Judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Court of Appeals Division, was born in Cookstown, Ont., in 1870, the son of Isaac and Emily (Gowan) Ferguson, and received his education at Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, graduating from the latter institution in 1894. He is a brother of Mrs. Arthur Murphy of Edmonton—better known by her pen name of “Janey Canuck”—and of Thomas R. Ferguson, K.C., of Toronto and Winnipeg. He is also a nephew of the late Lieutenant-Colonel T. R. Ferguson, M.P. for South Simcoe, and a grandson of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Ogle R. Gowan, M.P. for Leeds and Grenville, who founded the Orange Order in Canada; also a cousin of the late Hon. Justice Ferguson of the Supreme Court of Ontario. The present Mr. Justice Ferguson became King’s Counsel in 1908, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1916, and received his present appointment in the same year. He has always been prominent in outdoor sports, having been captain of Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall Rugby teams, President of the Ontario Rugby Union and a Director of both the Toronto Baseball and Lacrosse Clubs. Judge Ferguson is a member of the following clubs: Albany, Toronto, National, R.C.Y.C., Ontario Jockey and Toronto Hunt, and also of the Masonic and Orange Orders. He is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and a member of the Executive of the Toronto and York Patriotic Fund, an Anglican in religion and a Conservative in politics. His recreations are golf, fishing and motoring. “A lawyer in love with law and enamored of common sense, the Ontario Judiciary will be strengthened by his ability and vigor.”—Toronto “Telegram,” December 9, 1916.

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=Burpee, Lawrence Johnston= (Ottawa, Ont.), the son of Lewis Johnston Burpee and Alice DeMill Burpee, was born at Halifax, N.S., March 5, 1873, and educated at public and private schools. In 1899 he married Maud Hanington, daughter of the late Rev. Canon Hanington, of Ottawa, and has five children—Ruth, Lawrence, Margaret, Edward and Arthur. He is Secretary of the International Joint Commission and has acted as private secretary to three successive Ministers of Justice in the Dominion Government, and for several years was Librarian of the Ottawa Public Library; is the author of several publications, namely: “Canadian Life in Town and Country” (1905); “The Search for the Western Sea” (1908); “Flowers from a Canadian Garden” (1909); “Fragments of Haliburton” (1909); “By Canadian Streams” (1909); “Songs of French Canada” (1909); “A Little Book of Canadian Essays” (1909); “A Century of Canadian Sonnets” (1910); “Canadian Eloquence” (1910); “Dictionary of Canadian History” (1911); “Scouts of Empire” (1912); “Canadian Humor” (1911), “Among the Canadian Alps” (1913); “Sandford Fleming, Empire Builder” (1915); “Pathfinders of the Great Plains” (1915); “Soldier’s Dictionary” (1916); and has in press at the present time, “Journals of La Vérendrye” (Champlain Society), and “Fur Traders of the West” (Oxford Press). He has also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Americana, Canada and its Provinces, Royal Society Transactions, British Association, etc.; is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, Royal Geographical Society, Société Archæologique de France, American Library Institute, Ontario Historical Society, American Library Association, Champlain Society, Nova Scotia Historical Society, Historical Society of the Mississippi Valley, Bibliographical Society of America. He is a member of the Church of England, Conservative in politics, and Captain in the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, Ottawa, and the 2nd Depot Battalion, E.O.R. Mr. Burpee is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, and also takes a deep interest in chess.

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=Boyer, Louis= (Westmount, P.Q.), the son of a merchant, L. Alphonse Boyer, M.P., and Alphonsine Meilluer, and relation of Hon. Arthur Boyer and Hon. George Simard; was born in Montreal, Que., January 23, 1872, educated at the Normal School, Montreal College and McGill University; graduated from Laval and McGill with the degrees of B.A., B.C.L., K.C.; was formerly attorney for the city of Westmount and the town of Cartierville. Is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and on November 3, 1898, married Marie Sophie Alice Mathieu, the daughter of Aimé Mathieu, of Montreal, her father being a merchant of that city. They have ten children, Jeanne, Marthe, Claire, Simone, Marcelle, Pauline, Madeleine, Thérèse, Lucienne and Cécile. Mr. Boyer is a member of the following clubs: namely, University, Montreal Reform, Shawinigan Fish and Game and the St. George Snow Shoe Club; is a Liberal in politics and is well known as a prominent speaker and is in great demand at political campaigns. He is a Director of the Franco-American Chemical Co., also of the Canadian Inspections and Testing Laboratories, Ltd.

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