Part 25

=Scott, William Duncan=, Superintendent of Immigration for the Government of Canada, is one of the best known citizens of this country both at home and in other lands. He was born at Dundas, Ont., on October 7, 1861, the son of James and Margaret (McEwen) Scott. He was educated at Dundas High School and subsequently entered a law office with a view to qualifying himself for the legal profession. He did not, however, complete his studies, for the virgin country of Manitoba, which was just then being opened up to the world, called him, as in the case of many another young man, from Eastern Canada. He went West in 1881 at the age of twenty and entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway, then in course of construction, and later was employed by the Manitoba Government. In 1887 he was appointed Immigration Agent for that government with offices at Winnipeg. In 1895 he removed to the city of Toronto and continued to act as Immigration Agent for Manitoba in that city, incidentally helping to populate the prairie province with many desirable settlers. His general knowledge of the resources of Canada and his qualities of good-fellowship led to his appointment as Canadian Commissioner at the Paris Exposition of 1899; and from thence until 1903 he acted in a similar capacity at other International exhibitions, at which the Government of Canada was represented by displays and bureaus of information. In the latter year he was appointed Superintendent of the Immigration Branch of the Department of the Interior and removed to Ottawa where he has ever since resided. The period of Mr. Scott’s appointment was that in which immigration to the Canadian North-West not only from Europe but from the United States was at its zenith and he was very active in assisting to build up population in the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1911 the post of Chief Controller of Chinese Immigration under treaties newly effected with the Government of China was added to his duties, and he is now the most important factor in all branches of immigration in this country, with a large staff under his control. In addition to his official labors he pursues the calling of a practical farmer. He is a Presbyterian in religion and his recreation is indicated by the fact that he is a member of the Royal Ottawa Golf and Laurentian Clubs. He is also a member of the A.F. & A.M.

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=Askwith, John E.=, is Ottawa’s Police Magistrate, to which position he was appointed by the Ontario Government, April 23, 1918. Mr. Askwith was born in Ottawa and, practically, Ottawa has remained his home to this day. For forty years Mr. Askwith was in business as a contractor, both on structural and railway work and the Government Bureau, the Halifax Armory, and many other public buildings bear testimony to his zeal. He has been of considerable benefit and has rendered good services to the city of Ottawa in more ways than one. For eleven years he sat in the City Council as representative for Rideau Ward. He served as Chairman of the Parks Commission and had much to do in the acquisition of Rockliffe Park. In 1901 the Conservatives of Russell County selected him as their candidate for the House of Commons and, while he met with defeat, he gave his opponent a sharp contest. For three years he was President of the Association for the Blind and was and is a hard worker in the interest of the Protestant Old Men’s Home. His contributions to the various Ottawa Public Institutions are numerous and his attentions to them so constant and earnest that he is rightfully called an unmistakeable philanthropist. Following in his father’s footsteps as an enthusiast for Volunteer Military Service, Mr. Askwith served for seven years in the Ottawa Field Battery, and on two occasions marched to the front in defence of home and country. Even now he walks with the military stride. Mr. Askwith was appointed Deputy Magistrate in 1907, and since 1916 up to the time when he received his promotion in March, 1918, had to administer the law alone as during the intervening time Magistrate O’Keefe was too ill to attend Court, and no Deputy was appointed. In addition, as Deputy Magistrate, Mr. Askwith presided over the Juvenile Court, and is doing so even now, and it is owing to his sound judgment and fatherly consideration for erring youngsters that a vast improvement has taken place in the conduct of the Juveniles in the city. In the Police Court as well as in the Juvenile Court he has been stern and wise in his decisions. He metes out law and justice with common sense and discretion and never allows technicalities or quibbles to interfere with his disposal of cases, and he holds the explicit confidence of the public. Magistrate John E. Askwith was born of English parents, in 1841, and was educated in the Little Red School House in Ottawa. On September 26, 1865, he married Annie, daughter of the late John Fotheringham, and has two sons, William R. and John F., who is a Lieutenant in service in France; he is 36 years old and in 1915 enlisted with a company from McGill University to reinforce the Princess Pats, but was transferred to a Western Battalion. He went through several important engagements in which the Canadian Forces took part, including Vimy Ridge; and two daughters Margaret F., and Bessie, who is married to O. E. Culbert, Barrister, Calgary. In religion Mr. Askwith is a Protestant, and in politics a Conservative. He resides at 24 Alexander Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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=Nickle, William Folger, K.C., B.A.= (Kingston, Ont.), was born at Kingston, Dec. 31, 1869, son of William Nickle (Scotch), and Ellen Mary Folger (American). Educated at private schools, Kingston Collegiate Institute, Queen’s University and Osgoode Hall; graduated from Queen’s with degree of B.A. in 1892; called to the Bar, Osgoode Hall, 1895; member of legal firm of Nickle, Farrell & Day, Kingston. He was twice married: first, September 11, 1895, to Agnes Mary, daughter of Joseph McAdam, St. Thomas; second, June 6, 1911, to Katharine Louise, daughter of Rev. D. D. Gordon, Principal of Queen’s University. Five children, William McAdam 1897, Douglas Joseph 1899, Evelyn Marion 1902, Alexander Gordon 1916, and Catherine Maclennan Nickle 1918. He is a member of the following clubs: Kingston, Country, Yacht, Frontenac, The Rideau, Ottawa and the Toronto Club; is also a Mason, Oddfellow and a member of the Sons of Scotland. Mr. Nickle takes an active interest in all amateur sports. He is trustee of Queen’s University, Governor of Kingston Hospital; elected to the Kingston School Board in 1895, City Council in 1896, and again in 1897, for three years. He was member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Kingston from 1908 to 1911, when he resigned seat to contest same constituency at the general election for the House of Commons, and was elected as the Liberal-Conservative candidate, and re-elected at the general elections in December, 1917. He is a Presbyterian in religion. The member for Kingston has played a very

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with the municipal, educational and social life, and has carved a secure place in the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. He has greatly distinguished himself in public life, for which he has displayed much talent, and his sterling integrity is recognized by his fellow-members in the House of Commons. Mr. Nickle is a forceful speaker, with a convincing style and a pleasing and magnetic personality. His career in the House of Commons has been marked by a spirit of independence and adherence to conviction. In 1913 he took issue with the Government on the granting of certain additional aid to the Canadian Northern Railway; and maintained that if the people had to build the railroads they should own and operate them. His position at that time has since been justified overwhelmingly by public sentiment and the general course of events. In April of 1918 Mr. Nickle once more achieved great prominence as the effective voice of the Canadian people in connection with the titles controversy. He introduced a motion in the House of Commons requesting that representations be made to the Imperial Government that hereafter no hereditary titles should be granted in Canada. In a speech replete with convincing historical detail on the obsolete nature of hereditary honors he also stated his conviction that it would be better if no further titular distinctions of any kind were granted, except those of an officiary character. He felt, however, that public sentiment on the question was not sufficiently ripe to permit him to jeopardize his resolution on the subject of hereditary honors, by making it as wide as his personal views would indicate. Subsequently Mr. R. L. Richardson, M.P. for Richmond, Manitoba, moved a resolution demanding that no titular honors of any kind be granted thereafter. This was defeated on the Prime Minister declaring it to be a want-of-confidence motion. On this motion Mr. Nickle was placed in the peculiar position of having to abandon the Government or his personal convictions, but decided to stick by conviction. Another broad principle that was discussed as a result of Mr. Nickle’s original motion was whether the Government of Canada should not be consulted before titular distinctions were conferred by the Crown on Canadians resident in this country. The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, announced that he had accepted this principle, except in connection with military honors, so that Mr. Nickle may be regarded as having materially aided in checking an abuse which was becoming a cause of public unrest, by precipitating discussion of the matter.

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=Tory, John A.= (Toronto), one of the leading life insurance men of Canada, was born at Guysboro’, N.S., November 17, 1869, the son of Robert K. and Anora (Ferguson) Tory. He was educated at the public school of his native town, at the Guysboro’ Academy and Halifax Business College. He commenced his business career at the age of eighteen as a clerk in the establishment of D. G. Kerm, Antigonish, N.S., where he remained from 1887 to 1890. In the latter year he joined the staff of A. N. Whiten & Sons, Canso, N.S., becoming Manager of the business in 1892. His entry into the insurance field was made in 1895 when he became Inspector of the Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada for West Indies and part of South America. In 1897 he was transferred to Detroit and became manager of the company for the State of Michigan where he remained until 1908, when he was transferred to the management of the Toronto office of the Company. He has been instrumental in widely extending the power and influence of the Sun Life in Canada. Mr. Tory is keenly interested in all movements for social betterment, and

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He is a Director of the Y.M.C.A. and also a member of the Social Service Commission. He is a member of the following clubs in his adopted city: National, Royal Canadian Yacht, Queen City, Canadian, and Empire. His recreations are tennis and motoring, and in politics he is a Liberal. He is a Methodist and on December 28, 1898, married Abbie G., daughter of Dr. Buckley, Guysboro’, N.S., by whom he has two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Tory reside at 17 Elm Ave., Rosedale, Toronto, and have a summer home at Guysboro’, N.S.

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=Chisholm, William Craig, K.C.= (Westmount, Quebec), Barrister-at-law, was born at Port Hope on August 20, 1864, his parents being His Honor Judge Chisholm, of Kitchener, and Mary Craig Chisholm. Educated at Port Hope High School and Toronto University, from which latter institution he graduated in 1885 with the degree of B.A., and first-class honors in Classics. Was created a K.C. in 1908. Mr. Chisholm was Assistant City Solicitor of the city of Toronto from 1891 to 1895, when he became City Solicitor, and was in private practice in Toronto from 1909 to 1913, in which latter year he was appointed General Solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway System. He was a member of the Executive of the Ontario Municipal Association from 1907 to 1909. On June 30, 1894, he married Gertrude Foster, daughter of the late James Foster, of Guelph, and is the father of the following children: Capt. J. F. Chisholm, Royal Air Force, D.S.C., D.F.C. (killed in action near Arras Sept. 7, 1918); Duncan Gavin, Mary, Helen and Harry. In religion Mr. Chisholm is a Presbyterian, and a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the following clubs: University, Thistle Curling Club, Kanawaki Golf Club, Montreal; University Granite, Toronto; and Rideau, Ottawa. His recreations are golf, curling and lawn bowling.

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=Tetreault, Joseph Sylvini= (Sherbrooke, Que.), Notary Public, was born at Ste. Madeleine, County of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Feb. 9, 1877, the son of Napoleon and Ombeline (Durocher) Tetreault. He was educated at St. Hyacinthe Seminary and Laval University and took up practice as a notary in Sherbrooke, in 1900. Ever since he has been a prominent figure in the social and municipal life of that city. He has represented the West Ward in the City Council since 1914 and is very prominent in many French-Canadian organizations, taking a strong interest in sports and in all measures to promote mutual goodwill among the French and English people. He is Grand President of L’Union St. Joseph du Canada, with head office at Ottawa, a mutual and benevolent society which has built up a membership of 28,000 since 1908 and of which he was a director before his promotion to the presidency. He is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, of l’Alliance Nationale, and L’Union St. Joseph de Sherbrooke, and Secretary of the Chambre de Commerce Canadienne Française du District de St. François. He is Major of the 54th Carabineers of Sherbrooke, a Roman Catholic and an Independent in politics. On Sept. 4, 1906, he married Lena, daughter of S. J. and Marie (Simard) Caron, by whom he has had three children, Rejane, Marielle and Adrienne.

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=Cody, Hon. Henry John, B.A., M.A., D.D., LL.D.=, Rector of St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Toronto, and Minister of Education of the Province of Ontario, was born at Embro, Ontario, on December 6, 1868, his parents being E. J. Cody and Margaret L. (Torrance). Educated at Galt Collegiate Institute and Toronto University, where he had a most distinguished career, winning the gold medal in classics, first-class honors in Mental and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, and Wyld Prizeman in English Essay. After graduation, was Classical Master of Ridley College, at St. Catharines, then Professor of Church History and Systematic Theology, and also lecturer in Latin and examiner in classics, Toronto University. Is Rector of St. Paul’s Church, Toronto, and Archdeacon of York, and Canon of St. Alban’s Cathedral. Was elected Bishop of Nova Scotia, but declined the preferment in 1904. Was a member of the Royal Commission on the reorganization of The University of Toronto, 1905-6, and a member of The Ontario Commission on Unemployment, 1914-15. One of the founders of Havergal Ladies’ College, Toronto. In May, 1918, on the resignation of the Hon. Dr. R. A. Pyne as Minister of Education of Ontario, Dr. Cody was invited by Premier Hearst to assume the duties of that most important portfolio and, on May 23, he was sworn in as Minister of Education of the Province and at once took up his duties, and was subsequently nominated for the riding of North East Toronto. His election was opposed by Sergt. William Varley, a popular soldier, who had distinguished himself overseas on active service. Dr. Cody was returned by a very large majority. The Minister of Education has special gifts for the office he has been called upon to fill. His wide learning and eminence as a scholar, his tireless energy and organizing ability, caused his selection to be acceptable by all classes and few Canadians occupy a more secure place in the confidence, respect and esteem of their fellows. Splendidly informed in all great National questions and a brilliant orator, his services have been in constant demand. Shortly after assuming the duties of his present position, the Minister, at the request of the Premier, made a trip overseas and visited the soldiers in the firing line for the express purpose of familiarizing himself with the conditions existing at the front, with a view to make his Department more efficient in the reconstruction period after the war. The Minister also conferred with leading educationalists in England and acquired a vast amount of useful and necessary information. Hon. Dr. Cody holds the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Canadian Militia, is Senior Chaplain of the Queen’s Own Rifles, and is recognized as one of the outstanding figures in the Canadian public life. In 1894 he married Florence L., daughter of the late H. E. Clarke, M.P.P., and has one son, Henry Maurice Cody, Captain in C.A.M.C.

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=Roadhouse, William Albert=, Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario, was born at Malton, Peel County, Ontario, July 25, 1880, the son of Neriah and Elizabeth Roadhouse. He was educated at the Malton and Brampton public schools and on leaving school became—what so many men afterwards famous in many fields of activity have been—“A printer’s devil” in the office of the Brampton “Conservator,” where he spent six years under Samuel Charters, now member of the House of Commons for Peel. While working in the printing department he also wrote local items and on leaving the “Conservator,” took up newspaper work, joining the staff of the “Evening Telegram” in 1902. While with that paper he represented it in the Legislative Press Gallery. Subsequently he spent a year in London, England, as correspondent of the Canadian Associated Press, “covering” the general election in Britain in 1905-6 for the Canadian papers. On his return to Canada he rejoined the “Evening Telegram” staff and continued as a member of it till June 1, 1909, when he was appointed Secretary to the Minister and Department of Agriculture. During the same year he served as Secretary to the Ontario Government Milk Commission. On the retirement of the late C. C. James, LL.D., from the position of Deputy Minister, March 1, 1912, Mr. Roadhouse was promoted to his present position—being probably the youngest man ever appointed a Deputy Minister in the Province of Ontario. He has made many addresses and contributed numerous articles to the press on the subjects with which he is specially familiar. He married, July 3, 1912, Lillian Maud Wyndow, daughter of Wm. Wyndow, Toronto. He is a Protestant and a member of the A.F. & A.M. In his dealings with the public, Mr. Roadhouse is extremely courteous while in the conduct of his department, his guiding idea seems to be clear cut thinking and practical action. His address is Parliament Bldgs., Toronto.

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=Poulin, Stanislas, K.C.=, Advocate of St. John’s, Quebec, is a son of N. Poulin, farmer, and Marie Surpremant, his wife. He was born at Stottsville, Que., on August 2, 1881, and was educated at Montreal College, L’Assomption College and Laval University. From the latter institution he graduated in 1905 with the degrees of B.A. and LL.L. He entered the practice of law in St. John’s shortly after his admission to the Bar, and has been solicitor for that city since 1913. In 1916 he was appointed King’s Counsel on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Quebec, Sir Lomer Gouin. He has distinguished gifts as a public speaker and is a liberal in politics. As a member of that party he was induced to run for the Legislature in 1913, but was defeated by a fellow Liberal. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and was married on April 23, 1907, to Corinne, daughter of Hon. Justice A. N. Charland, Judge of the Superior Court, St. John’s, Quebec. He has two children, Claire, born June 24, 1909, and Simone, Oct. 26, 1912.

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=Kent, Controller Joseph=, is the Accountant, etc., in the Ottawa River Works Office, a branch of the Department of Public Works of Canada. He has held that position for many years and is considered by those in authority a reliable and painstaking official. He is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Carleton, and is Chairman of the Grounds and Buildings Committee of the Central Canada Exhibition Association. During the years 1911-1912 he represented, as Alderman, Central Ward, in the Ottawa City Council, and was elected for the years 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919, as one of the four Controllers in charge of Civic Affairs. For years previous to his aspiring to civic honors he was a conspicuous figure in all kinds of sports and was active and skilled in the games of lacrosse, football, etc. As an Alderman he was one of the men that never faltered in his duty and his value to the city may well be judged by the number of years he has been elected as Controller. Controller Kent is the son of the late William and Martha (Wallace) Kent. He was born in Quebec City on January 28, 1864, and was educated in the Public and High Schools. Mr. Kent, in 1885, married Nellie Edna Whitney, daughter of Phillip P. Whitney, of Ottawa, Ontario. He is a member of the Rideau Curling Club and the Canadian Club, and of the C.O.F., A.O.U.W., societies, and Past Master of Civil Service Lodge, number 148, A.F. & A.M. His residence is 184 Second Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.

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