Part 19

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

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

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=Chrysler, Francis Henry, K.C.= (Ottawa), is a son of the late Gordon Harvey Chrysler and Jane Chrysler, daughter of Captain James Mackenzie, R.N., who was on service on Lake Ontario under Commodore James Yee, R.N., during the war of 1812. He is a grandson of Colonel John Chrysler, of Chrysler’s Farm, for sixteen years member for Dundas in the Parliament of U.C. He was born in Kingston, Ont., educated at Bath Academy and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married in 1876 to Margaret Isabella, daughter of Donald A. Grant, of Ottawa. He became a barrister in 1872; K.C., 1890; has practised continuously in Ottawa and is one of the leaders of the Bar of Canada, and one of the life Benchers of the Law Society for the Province of Ontario. He is Counsel for many railways and other corporations. Has declined appointment to the Canadian Bench. He acted as Counsel for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in their

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manufacture of liquid pig iron; for the Government of Canada in drafting and settling the contracts and legislation for the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway; for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company in drafting and settling their mortgages upon which securities were issued for the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert; for all the railway companies of Canada in framing and settling The Railway Act of 1903, under which the Railway Commission was appointed; for various railway companies, principally the Canadian Pacific Railway, in the general enquiry before the Railway Commission into railway rates in Canada; for the Dominion Express Company in the general enquiry into express tolls and contracts; for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company upon the general enquiry into telegraph tolls and contracts; for the Special Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the question of telephone rates and systems, and for the Railway Companies of Canada as Counsel before the general committee appointed by the House of Commons in the Session of 1917, to revise and consolidate the Railway Act and Amending Acts. He has had an extensive experience and practice as a Parliamentary Counsel, before the Railway Commission and in the Supreme Court. His clubs are: The Rideau, Country and Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa; Metis Golf Club, Little Metis, Que. His address is 87 Catharine Street, Ottawa. Mr. Chrysler has four children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son, Geoffrey Gordon, was for some years in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, retiring in 1912, with the rank of Captain. He enlisted for service in the war with Germany, going with the first contingent as a Captain in the Second Battalion of Infantry, of which he is now a Major. He has been three times severely wounded and has received the Military Cross for conspicuous valor. The younger son, Philip Harvey, qualified as a Lieutenant of Artillery and served in France in the 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column from 1915 until October, 1917, when he was discharged as being physically unfit for further service. Mr. Chrysler’s elder daughter, Margaret Gordon, Mrs. Frederick H. Emra, is married to a civil engineer, who is now a Captain, first in the Second Pioneers and afterwards in the Engineers, and has been wounded in France. He is now doing engineering work for the Royal Navy. His younger daughter, Constance Harvey, is married to Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, LL.D., F.R.S., formerly Professor of Biology in McGill University and now Professor of Biology in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, England, where Professor and Mrs. MacBride with two young sons reside. Mr. Chrysler is by temperament a student and has never occupied any public office; a prominent member of St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, of which congregation he is an officer. A lover of music, having been for many years an active member and President of the Orchestral Society; a keen golfer, golf being his principal recreation. Although for many years a leading member of the Liberal Party, he is at present a strong advocate of the policy of carrying on the war by means of a united Canadian party.

[Illustration: HON. WILFRID GARIEPY Edmonton]

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=Aikins, Lt.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, Kt., M.A., K.C.=, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, was born in Peel County, Ont., December 10, 1851, the son of Honorable James Cox Aikins, who was appointed a Senator at Confederation, and, on December 9, 1869, Secretary of State and Registrar General in Sir John A. Macdonald’s administration, and afterwards Minister of Inland Revenue, and later in 1882, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the District of Keewatin, and upon the expiration of his term of office, a second time called to the Senate of Canada in 1896, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Somerset. Educated at Brampton High School, Upper Canada College and Toronto University (B.A., 1875, M.A., 1877), M.A. Ad eundem, Manitoba University, studied law in the office of Matthew Crooks Cameron and also Mowat, Maclennan and Downey, admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1878, and to the Bar of Manitoba, 1879, in which year he went to Winnipeg, where he soon established himself as one of the leaders of the profession in the Province and few members of the Western Bar have held more responsible solicitorships. Sir James was solicitor and counsel for the Canadian Pacific Railway throughout the western division since its organization until he withdrew in 1911, to contest the constituency of Brandon in the House of Commons, for which he was returned by a large majority, retaining the seat until the general elections in 1917, when he was succeeded by Dr. H. P. Whidden (Conservative-Unionist). He was also counsel for the Dominion Express Co., Imperial Bank, Bank of Ottawa, Canadian Fire Insurance Co., Great West Life Assurance Co., Canada Permanent and Western Canada Land Co., Manitoba Northwest Land Co., Scottish American Investment Co. He is a director of the Northern Trusts Co., the Canada Fire Insurance Co., and numerous other financial corporations. From 1879 to 1896 he acted as counsel for the Department of Justice, and, in 1880, he was appointed by the Dominion Government one of the Royal Commissioners to investigate and report on the administration of Justice in the North-West Territories; was chief counsel for the Province of Manitoba during the administration of Hugh John Macdonald, drafting the Manitoba Liquor Bill, which, on appeal was sustained by the Privy Council in England and decided to be constitutional, and has been a model for similar legislation in other Provinces. Appointed K.C. in 1884, and created Knight Bachelor in June, 1914, Sir James Aikins is the senior of the Manitoba Bar and President of the Canadian Bar Association, President of the Conference of Commissioners on Uniformity of Law. Aug., 1916, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Was elected bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba in 1886, and has filled a large number of other prominent positions and offices, i.e., President of Y.M.C.A.; The Canadian Club; Chairman, Wesley College, Manitoba; Honorary Bursar, Manitoba University; President Law Society of Manitoba. In June, 1912, was appointed to represent Canada at the second International Moral Education Congress, held at The Hague from August 22 to 27 of that year. A director of the Manitoba Agricultural College, Sir James takes great interest in all educational matters. Presented silver cup to Manitoba Mounted Rifles for general efficiency 1907; appointed Honorary Lieut.-Colonel 90th Regiment, Winnipeg Rifles December, 1910; is also Col. (Honorary) of the 99th Regiment, Brandon. A Methodist in religion, the subject of this sketch has always displayed much interest in the affairs of his church; was a member of the 20th Century Thanksgiving Fund, and of the Methodist Church Union Committee, and in 1896 carried a resolution in Grace Methodist Church, Winnipeg, heartily favoring organic union of Presbyterian, Congregational, and Methodist Churches of Canada. Sir James has been twice married—(first) to Mary B. McLellan, in 1884, (second) to Mary F. Colby, in 1889, and has three children, Gordon Harold Aikins, Barrister-at-Law, married to Myrtle Clint; Mary Helena Alberta Aikins; Elizabeth Grace Colby Aikins. Sir James has always taken a very prominent part in the affairs of the Dominion and that the success which has come to him early in life has been the reward of merit is generally admitted. He is a strong platform speaker, a brilliant advocate and sound lawyer, and at critical periods in the country’s history has shown much dominant force as a political factor. Sir James is extremely popular with the members of his profession with whom he has a Dominion-wide acquaintance, and has received every honor at the hands of his fellow-practitioners. He is a member of the following clubs: Manitoba, St. Charles Country, Adanac, of Winnipeg, Rideau Club of Ottawa, and Brandon Club, Brandon, Manitoba, and head of the following law firms: Aikins, Loftus, Aikins and Fisher, and Aikins, Loftus, Aikins, Bell and Bridgman, of Winnipeg.

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=Pope, Major William Walter=, is of United Empire Loyalist descent, was born in the County of Compton, in the Province of Quebec, in 1854, and educated there. Entered the service of the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburgh Railway, Boston, Mass., when a young man, and later he went to Belleville, Ontario, where he studied law. Was assistant to the late John Bell, K.C., Solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway, 1881 to 1904, when he was transferred to Montreal as assistant to W. H. Biggar, K.C.; while at Belleville was alderman for two years, also Major with the 15th Regiment, retiring retaining rank in 1909, holds long service decoration, also medal with one clasp for the Fenian Raid, 1866. Since September, 1909, has been Solicitor and Secretary of the Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario, and is recognized as a man of great practical ability. His present address is 117 Bedford Road, Toronto. The Hon. John Henry Pope, late Minister of Railways, was an uncle. Mr. Pope married, October 20, 1875, a daughter of Stephen White, Belleville, manufacturer, and has one son, W. W. Macaulay Pope. He is a member of the Victoria, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Canadian Empire and United Empire Loyalist Clubs, Canadian Military Institute, Albany, and the Masonic Order, also a member of the Anglican Church and a Conservative. His principal recreations are golfing, bowling, and curling.

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=Pratt, Edward Courtney= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager of The Molsons Bank, is the son of George Henry Pratt, of Monteath, Ireland. He was born in Ireland, on October 22, 1864, and educated in Dublin. On October 16, 1889, he married Edith Augusta White, the daughter of Wm. J. White, K.C., of St. Thomas, Ont., and has six children. Is a member of the Mount Royal, Montreal and Beaconsfield Clubs, and a member of the Anglican Church.

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