Part 23

=Sainte-Pierre, F.=, Managing Director and Secretary-Treasurer of Credit Canada, Limitée, the largest French-Canadian Bond houses in Canada. Mr. Sainte-Pierre was born at Chicoutimi on the 13th December, 1885, a son of F. Sainte-Pierre, general merchant, and Josephine Saint-Pierre. He was educated at Chicoutimi Seminary and the Commercial Academy of Quebec, graduating at Quebec in 1902. As a student, Mr. Sainte-Pierre was a frequent contributor to the Society Magazine. He was married on 7th October, 1913, to Miss Noemi Decary, daughter of the late A. C. Decary, N.P., Registrar. He has two children, Helene and Jean Sainte-Pierre. He is a member of the Maccabees and a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is a Liberal in politics, in which he takes a keen interest, his name having been suggested as a candidate for parliamentary honors on more than one occasion. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is an enthusiastic motorist and also keenly interested in motor boating and fishing. Having been a dealer in a very large way in municipal securities, Mr. Sainte-Pierre has for the past few years given a great deal of attention to the improvement of municipal borrowing. He favors the appointment of a Government Expert Officer to safeguard and study the best methods of borrowing money, realizing that many municipalities have not the expert financial knowledge that enables them to decide on the most propitious times to float loans, he believes that the suggested reforms would be greatly in the interest, not only of the municipalities, but of the financial houses that deal in these securities. Mr. Sainte-Pierre, as the executive head of Credit Canada, Limitée, has been very active in the financing of large school municipalities and cities. His firm has handled some of the largest issues floated in the Province of Quebec in recent years. He has made various suggestions for the improvement of School municipalities in the province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is also well known as an expert accountant, and systematizer. He is a member of several fraternal societies and it is well recognized that the prominent position obtained by Credit Canada, Limitée, is due to the energy and financial skill of Mr. Sainte-Pierre.

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=Mackenzie, Norman, K.C.=, one of the leading barristers of the Canadian West, is head of the firm of Mackenzie, Thom, McMorran, McDonald, Bastedo and Jackson, Regina, Saskatchewan. He was born at Sarnia, Ont., January 27, 1869, the son of John Alexander and Helen Mackenzie. He was educated at private schools. Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He read law in the offices of Morphy, Miller, Levesconte & Smythe, Toronto, from 1888 to 1891, and in latter year was called to the Ontario Bar. He at once went to Regina, then the capital of the North-West Territories, was there called to the Territorial Bar and commenced practice. On the division of the North-West Territories into Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, he became a solicitor entitled to practice in both Provinces by virtue of the Act. Was created K.C. in 1907, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of the North-West Territories in 1898, and continued to represent the North-West Territories until 1905, and since then the Province of Saskatchewan, retiring in 1919 as a Bencher ex-officio under the Act, during which period he was at different times President of the Society, served as Public Administrator from 1898 to 1910; 1916 to 1918 he was Vice-President for Saskatchewan of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Mackenzie finds his chief recreation in art and in his dogs. He is a member of many social organizations including the Assiniboia Club, Regina, Wascana Country Club, Regina Golf Club, Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. He is a Presbyterian and a Liberal in politics. On May 29, 1909, he married Clara Erma, daughter of Henry McMorran of Port Huron, Michigan and resides at 2336 Victoria Ave., Regina.

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=Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, December 20, 1850, and received a thorough scholastic training in his native country. He came to Canada in boyhood, and for a short time looked to farming as an occupation and became also interested in educational matters. The bent of his mind being in the direction of the law, he pursued the studies thereof, and in 1876 was sworn in as a solicitor, and in 1880 he was called to the Bar, and practised at Guelph for a few years, where he met with big success. Upon receiving the appointment (in 1885) as Deputy Attorney-General and Clerk of the Executive Council, he came to Toronto, and held the position for four years. He then resumed the practice of his profession and was subsequently appointed for three years Inspector of Registry Offices, which office, by reason of his increasing practice he was compelled to resign in 1894. He has frequently acted as Crown Counsel at the Provincial Assizes, being retained in several important murder trials, and in that capacity has won distinction and success, by reason of the fact that he has perhaps conducted more criminal cases than any man in Canada. To cite a complete or anything like a complete list of the cases which he has been retained for, would read like a city directory. He was a gentleman of pleasing address, yet withal a forceful orator, and had the faculty of being in a position through his remarkable tenacity to hold the jury and convince them to his way of thinking. He had a ready mental grasp, quick and clear conceptions, and was ever ready to see a point and turn it to the advantage of his client. In 1887 was appointed a Commissioner to enquire into the working of municipal institutions, and was president of the Guelph Caledonian Society, and secretary of the Reform Association for a number of years. He was appointed as Q.C. by the Ontario Government in 1890. Mr. Johnston was senior partner of the well-known law firm of Johnston, McKay, Dodds & Grant. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Bank of Canada, Chairman of the Standard Reliance Mortgage Corporation, Director on several Boards, and President of the Chartered Trust Co. He was for some years a Bencher of the Law Society. Mr. Johnston passed away January 29th, 1919.

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=Saint Cyr, Joseph Fortunat= (Montreal), one of the well-known lawyers of that city, was born at Saint Jean, Quebec, on December 6, 1875, the son of Olivier Saint Cyr, clerk, and Rose de Lima Gosseline, his wife. He was educated at the College de Montreal and graduated in 1897 with the degree of B.A. Studied law at Laval University, where he obtained the degree of LL.L. Admitted to the Bar in 1900. He at once commenced practice as an advocate in St. John’s, P.Q., in which his talents speedily brought him to the fore. He is the author of several legal treatises, including “La Loi des Licenses de Quebec”; “La Loi pour Tous,” and a Digest of Montreal Law Reports. In 1909 he was appointed magistrate for the district of Beauharnois and Iberville, and in 1917 became Judge of the Sessions of the Peace for the District of Montreal. In 1918 he resigned the latter office to take the very important post of Chairman of the Montreal Tramways Commission. He is a Liberal in politics, a Roman Catholic in religion, and a member of the Knights of Columbus. In April, 1910, he married Cecile, daughter of L. G. Dubois and has one daughter, Lisette.

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=Boyd, Leslie Hale, B.A., B.C.L., K.C.= (Fort William, Ont.), Chairman of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, was born in Montreal, July 31, 1873, the son of Andrew and Georgiana Louisa (Hale) Boyd. He was educated at Montreal High School and McGill University, graduating B.A. in 1894, and B.C.L., 1897. He commenced the practice of law in his native city and also took a prominent part in politics and municipal affairs. He was alderman for St. George Ward from 1910 to 1917, inclusive, and also Life Governor of the Homeopathic Hospital, School Trustee, St. Henri; and a member of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, Montreal. On one occasion he unsuccessfully contested the St. Lawrence division for the Quebec Legislature as a Conservative candidate. His appointment by the Dominion Government to the important post of Chairman of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, for which his abilities and experience well qualified him, necessitated his removal to Fort William. His recreations are golf, curling and fishing, and he is a past president of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. His clubs are the Engineers and Canada, Montreal; the Kaministiquia, Thunder Bay Golf and Canadian, Fort William. Mr. Boyd is a Presbyterian and unmarried.

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=Allan, John=, Member for the riding of West Hamilton in the Ontario Legislature, was born at Guelph, Ont., on May 22, 1856, the son of James and Agnes (Rodgers) Allan. His boyhood was spent in the city of which he is now an elected representative, and he was educated in the public schools there. On leaving school in 1871 he qualified himself for mechanical pursuits with William Hancock and John Taylor of Hamilton, remaining with them for three years. From 1874 to 1879 he followed his trade in the Western States and in the latter year removed to New York City. In 1885 he became a builder on his own account in the American metropolis and continued there for the next twenty-one years. He prospered to an extent that in 1906, at the age of fifty, he was able to retire from business and return to the city where he had spent his youth and for which he had always cherished a deep affection. His friends persuaded him to enter municipal politics in 1908 and he has proven a most useful public servant. He was Alderman, 1908-9; Controller, 1910-12; Chairman of the Parks Board, 1911; Mayor for the years 1913 and 1914. His regime was marked by businesslike methods and he was popular with all classes of the community. In 1914 on the retirement of Sir John Hendrie, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, who had long represented the riding of West Hamilton in the Ontario Legislature, Mr. Allan was nominated by the Conservative party and elected. As a legislator his services as a member of the standing committees of the House are especially valued. In religion he is a Presbyterian and is a member of the following organizations: Commercial Club, A.F. & A.M., and Knights of Pythias. In 1881 he married Catherine, daughter of Conrad Euler.

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=Stewart, Charles=, first saw the light of day in the pioneer homestead, lot 13, concession 11, Township of Ashfield, County of Huron. His father was David Stewart, of Caithness, Scotland, and his mother Mary McLean, of Ross-shire, Scotland. In 1842 this estimable Scotch couple set sail for Canada, and that same year began their pioneer life on the homestead now occupied by the subject of this sketch. To their son they have imparted their sterling qualities of character. Charles Stewart received his education in the public schools of his native county, but his heart was ever in his chosen occupation of farming and he has become one of the sterling sons of the soil, proud that he knows how to farm and do it well. He is unmarried. Studious by nature, his hobby has ever been municipal affairs, and for nine years he was a member of the municipal council. Four of these, 1914-15-16-17, he occupied the honored position of reeve, retiring in 1918. He was a member of Huron’s County Council, and there as in his own council he was ever found leading in movements for forwarding the country’s interests. He is an advocate of Hydro-Electric and Hydro Radials, feeling that the peculiar geographical situation of the township in which he lives can eventually be served by these two important public utilities. He is a good debater, states his case with Scotch deliberateness, and sticks to his point in the face of all opposition, until convinced that there might be some better way than the one he advocates. Kindly and generous by disposition, he has friends by the score, and has been attested by his continuous representation in the council for so many years. He is an ardent admirer of Highland games and fond of good driving horses, though of late the automobile has superseded his once famous pacer. He is perhaps one of the most aggressive farmers in his community, and his name has from time to time been mentioned for parliamentary honors, but he has refused to be lured into the wider field of political activity. If he should ever run and be elected, he will be a distinct asset to the farmers of Canada, because he knows what they want. He is a member of Lucknow Lodge, No. 184, A.F. & A.M. In politics he is a Liberal, and in religion a Presbyterian.

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=Macaulay, Thomas Bassett, F.I.A., F.S.A., F.S.S.=, of Montreal, occupies a high position in Canadian finance, and is besides an insurance expert of international fame. He was born at Hamilton, Ont., on June 6, 1860, the son of Robertson and Barbara Maria (Reid) Macaulay, and educated at Hamilton and Montreal. He entered the service of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada at Montreal in 1877 and by 1880, when but twenty years of age, he had so qualified himself in the science of insurance that he was made Actuary. In 1891 he was appointed Secretary of the Company, and in 1898 was elected a Director. In 1906 he became Managing Director of the Sun Life and in 1915 President, succeeding his late father. Under his direction the company has enjoyed an immense expansion on sound and conservative lines, and its President is recognized in financial circles the world over as an expert in insurance and master of business organization. The head offices are on Dominion Square, Montreal, but it has many branches in Canada and other parts of the world. Mr. Macaulay is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain, a Charter Member of the Actuarial Society of America, and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected Vice-President to represent the Actuaries of the United States and Canada at the International Congress of Actuaries held at Paris in 1900, and again at the Congress held in Berlin, Germany, 1906. He is Past President of the Life Insurance Officers’ Association of Canada. His financial interests are by no means confined to insurance however. He is a director of The National Trust Company of Toronto, a Director of the Dominion Glass Company, a Director of the Illinois Traction Company, a Director of the Western Railways and Light Company, and a Director of the Barcelona Railway, Light and Power Co. Mr. Macaulay has taken a great interest in the development of closer relations between Canada and other British possessions in North America, and is President of the Canadian and West Indian League. The Navy League of Canada, of which Mr. Macaulay is Honorary President, has his active support. His chief recreation is farming, and his hobby, the breeding of fine stock. In religion he is a Congregationalist and has been twice married, firstly in 1881 to Henrietta (deceased daughter of O. T. Bragg, New Orleans); secondly in 1912 to Margaret (deceased), daughter of Rev. William Allen, London, England. He has two sons and three daughters, and resides on Westmount Boulevard, Westmount, Quebec.

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=Clark, Lt.-Col. Hugh=, born May 6, 1861, at Kincardine Township. A son of Donald Clark and Mary MacDougall, both in Argyllshire, Scotland; father was a farmer and a school teacher. Mother died in 1909, father lived to be over 90 years of age. Educated at the public school and high school Kincardine, from which latter institution he graduated in 1887, and taught school for three years, 1887 to 1889. In 1890 was editor of the “Walkerton Herald,” and in the same year purchased the “Kincardine Review,” which he has conducted ever since, with the exception of the years 1897 and 1898, when he was managing editor of the “Ottawa Citizen.” A member of the Legislative Press Gallery in Toronto, 1900. Entered the Militia of Canada in 1892 with a Lieutenant’s commission and commanded the 32nd Bruce Regiment as Lt.-Col. from 1906 to 1911. In 1902 Lt.-Col. Clark was nominated by the Conservative party as candidate for the Legislative Assembly for Centre Bruce, and was elected with a majority of 5; unseated on petition he was re-elected in February, 1903 by a majority of 44, and re-elected in 1905 by a majority of 317 and again in 1908 by a majority of 356. In 1911 Lt.-Col. Clark resigned his seat in the Legislature to contest North Bruce for the Federal Parliament and was elected by a majority of 82. Re-elected at the general election to the House of Commons in 1917 by a largely increased majority, and became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, which he held until November, 1918, when he took over the duty of Parliamentary Secretary of Soldiers Civil Re-establishment. Married September 24, 1894, to Catherine MacKay, daughter of Dr. H. M. Ross of Richard’s Landing, Ont., and has one son, Hugh Stuart Clark. Has a fine reputation as a journalist and is regarded as one of the brightest paragraphists in the country; he is a particularly effective platform speaker and has a clear and convincing style. He is exceedingly popular with all classes in the House and is recognized as being straightforward in all his election methods and business dealings. He accompanied Sir Robert L. Borden in the campaign of 1908 through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and toured the Western Provinces with the Premier in 1911. Lt.-Col. Clark is recognized as an authority on everything affecting the Militia of Canada and has lectured on Imperial defence. He is a Presbyterian in religion and belongs to the following orders: A.F. & A.M.; L.O.L.; I.O.O.F.; C.O.F. His principal recreations are golfing and bowling. He is a member of the Kincardine Club, Albany Club, Toronto, Rideau and Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Ottawa.

[Illustration: J. G. B. BUTTERWORTH Ottawa]

=Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, Lieut.-Col., D.S.O.= (Uxbridge, Ont.), son of George Sharpe, of Suffolk, England, and Mary Ann Simpson, of County Tyrone, Ireland, born March 13, 1873, at Zephyr, Township of Scott, County of Ontario. Educated at Uxbridge Public and High Schools, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall; graduated in 1895, degrees B.A. and LL.B. Married, August 26, 1903, to Mabel E., daughter of H. A. Crosby and granddaughter of Joseph Gould, ex-M.P. for North Ontario. Town Solicitor for Uxbridge for ten years. He lived and practised his profession in Town of Uxbridge, near the place of his birth, after being called to the bar and achieved a large measure of success. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe always took a great interest in the militia, and was formerly a member of the 34th Regiment, in which he attained the rank of Major. On the outbreak of the war he organized and recruited the 116th Ontario County Battalion and took it to France. He held a fine record for overseas service, having won the D.S.O. and having been mentioned in the despatches. It is said of Col. Sharpe that he was one of the most popular O.C.’s sent from Canada, and he never missed an opportunity of looking after the interests of his men. He returned to Canada in the end of May, 1918, after having seen much hard service, his health impaired and succumbed in a few weeks to a nervous disorder. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1898, when he defeated George D. Grant by 200 majority; re-elected in 1911, when he defeated Major H. M. Mowat, K.C., nephew of the late Sir Oliver Mowat, by 588; was appointed one of the Ontario Whips by Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden, prior to the election of 1911, and was returned by a large majority at the general elections in December, 1917, during his absence at the front. Lieut.-Col. Sharpe took an active and prominent part in the councils of the Conservative Party after he became a member of the House, and was recognized as a good debater, with a full knowledge of National affairs. He was a member of the Albany Club, Toronto, and the Rideau Club, Ottawa; also a member of the Masonic Order, Independent Order of Foresters, Sons of England, and Independent Order of Oddfellows. He held the Ontario championship in tennis for two years and the undergraduate championship for one year. In religion Lieut.-Col. Sharpe was a member of the Methodist Church at Uxbridge.

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=Macaulay, John= (Wiarton, Ontario), Manager of the Dominion Fish Co., head office, Toronto, was born April 13, 1865, at Southampton, Ont. He is a son of Donald MacAulay, of Stornoway, Scotland, and Annie MacLeod, of the same place. The father was a fisherman and sailor on the great lakes. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of his native town. Early he began to follow in the footsteps of his father, and soon became one of the best fishermen on the lakes. He had splendid executive ability, and this with his tenacity of purpose soon marked him as a leader in the fishing business. The Dominion Fish Co. recognized his business acumen and made him manager of their extensive business with headquarters at Wiarton. Here he is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the place. He is a member of Cedar Lodge, No. 369, A.F. & A.M., Offanta Preceptory, Owen Sound, and a Shriner of Rameses Temple, Toronto. His favorite pastimes are curling and bowling. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Liberal. He was the Liberal standard bearer in the Federal Riding of North Bruce in 1917. He married Miss Margaret McLeod, of Ripley, Ont. They had a family of three sons and two daughters, Graham, Gordon, Irvine, May, and Marie (the first three named are deceased, the two latter living).

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