Part 33

=Higinbotham, John D., J.P.=, 620 12th Street, Lethbridge, Alberta, is a son of Lieut.-Col. Nathaniel Higinbotham, formerly Member for North Wellington (Ontario) in the House of Commons, and Margaret (Allan) Higinbotham. His grandfather was David Allan, Esq., a prominent citizen of Guelph, Ont., and his father after his retirement from politics, became Registrar of Wellington County. The subject of this sketch was born at Guelph, November 23, 1864, and was educated at the Guelph Academy and the Guelph Collegiate Institute, Dr. Tassie’s famous school at Galt, Ont., and the Ontario College of Pharmacy, Toronto. In 1884 he went to Lethbridge and founded the wholesale and retail business as chemist and druggist, which still bears his name. Growing up with the city and province he has held a great many important offices. He was postmaster of Lethbridge from 1886 to 1910 and is also a Juvenile Commissioner for Alberta, a Senator of Alberta University, a Governor of Alberta Ladies’ College, and has also been Chairman of the Lethbridge School Board, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, President of the Citizens’ League, President of the Alberta Pharmaceutical Association, President of the Alberta Sunday School Association and Director of the Y.M.C.A. He is a Presbyterian and in 1885, when but 21, organized Knox Church Sunday School in Lethbridge and has been its superintendent continuously from that day to this. He is a man of scholarly tastes and has contributed articles to “The Week,” founded by Goldwin Smith; “Grip,” the once famous comic weekly, and the “Westminster Magazine.” He is an antiquarian, traveller and art connoisseur, and his outdoor recreations include lawn tennis, golf and cricket. He is President of the Lethbridge Lawn Tennis Club and a member of the Aquatic and Country Clubs. He is a supporter of Union Government and a member of the North Star Lodge A.F. & A.M., having been District Deputy Grand Master in 1897. In 1899 he married Anna, daughter of Rev. R. Torrance, D.D., of Guelph, Ont., Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. His children are: Lieut. Harold Torrance, of the 13th Battalion (b. 1894); Norman Lindsay (1900), a student of McGill University, Montreal; Helen Phyllis, B.A. (Toronto) and R.N. (John Hopkins, Baltimore) (1890); Marjorie (1899), of Havergal Ladies’ College, Toronto; and Mary Mewburn and Muriel Dryden (twins, 1904).

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=Anderson, Prof. George R.=, University of Toronto, was born in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, the son of an artisan, who died while he was an infant. Coming to Canada at an early age he was educated at Seaforth High School in Huron County, Ontario, and on matriculating at the University of Toronto, entered on what was to prove a brilliant scholastic career. He graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1893, taking honors in mathematics and physics, and received that of M.A. in the same institution, 1899. In 1905 Harvard University conferred on him the degree of A.M. At present he is a member of the Science faculty of the University of Toronto and is professor in charge of the Department of Engineering Physics, and is also in charge of the Physics section, at the Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. He has contributed extensively to scientific journals. His chief recreations are boating and fishing. He is secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of the Madawaska Club, which has its headquarters at Go-Home Bay, in the Georgian Bay District, where Prof. Anderson has a summer home. In religion he is a Presbyterian and was married in 1901 to Margaret, daughter of D. D. Wilson, merchant, of Seaforth, Ont.

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=Wade, Mark Sweeten, M.D.=, 37 St. Paul St., Kamloops, B.C., was born at Sunderland, Durham County, England, on November 23, 1858, the son of Samuel John and Mary (Sweeten) Wade. The father was a merchant and the subject of this sketch was educated at Gainford School, England, and at Anderson’s College, University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in 1882, with the degree of M.D. He first paid a visit to Canada in 1881 and resolved to make his home in British Columbia, where he settled in 1883, practising first at New Westminster. In 1884 he was appointed a surgeon in connection with C.P.R. construction and continued in the service for a year. From 1885 to 1889 he practised at Clinton, in the interior of British Columbia, and in the latter year removed to Victoria, where he remained until 1895, finally establishing himself at Kamloops where he added journalism to his professional attainments. He became editor of the “Inland Sentinel” of that town, and also editorial writer on the Nelson “News.” In 1904 he purchased the “Sentinel,” and continued to conduct it until 1912. He now holds the position of Judge of the Small Debts Court and Police Magistrate at Kamloops, offices for which his intimate knowledge of British Columbia and its people eminently fit him. He is also an ex-Coroner, ex-President of the Board of Trade, and ex-President of the Liberal Association. He has been very

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Kamloops,” and a book, “The Thompson Country,” as well as articles in “The Fortnightly Review,” “To-day,” “Canadian Courier,” “Canadian Magazine” and the Vancouver “Province.” His recreations are motor boating and photography. He is an Anglican in religion and a Liberal in politics. On March 10, 1886, he married Emma M., daughter of James B. Uren, a stockraiser, of Savona, B.C., and Cornwall, England, and has two sons, Mark Leighton, born 1889, and Daryl Frederick, born 1892.

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=Asselin, Olivar, Major= (Montreal, Que.), one of the most widely known of French-Canadian writers and publicists, was born at Malbay, Charlevoix, Quebec, on November 8, 1874, the son of the late Ricule and Cedulle (Tremblay) Asselin. He was educated at Rimouski College and later became Principal of the Evening School for French-Canadians at Woonsocket, R.I. While a resident of the United States he was a frequent contributor to the newspapers and shortly after his return to Canada in 1898, was appointed City Editor of “La Presse,” a post he resigned to become private secretary to Sir Lomer Gouin, Prime Minister of Quebec, filling this position from 1901 to 1903. In 1902 he founded the Nationalist League of Quebec and became President of the Montreal Branch, and in 1904 he re-entered journalism by founding “Le Nationaliste,” of which he became editor. His articles in this and other publications excited widespread attention in Canada, notably his brochures, “Feuilles de Combat” and “A Quebec View of Canadian Nationalism.” Mr. Asselin was always a man of military enthusiasm and in 1898 served for a time as a private with the U.S. Army in Cuba, during the Spanish-American War. When war broke out between Germany and the Entente powers, in 1914, he threw himself heartily into the cause of France and Great Britain and helped to organize the 22nd Battalion (French-Canadians), which has had a glorious record in France, and in which he holds the rank of Major. His own service has been marked by great sacrifice and personal bravery, and he is generally regarded as one of the coming men in French Canada. On August 3, 1902, he married Alice, daughter of Charles LeBoutillier, Gaspé Basin, and has three children, Jean, Paul and Pierre. In religion he is a Roman Catholic.

[Illustration: HON. W. G. MITCHELL Quebec]

=Ballantyne, James.= That Ottawa East is now a portion of Ottawa City, is largely due to the efforts of Mr. James Ballantyne, Justice of the Peace, who, when Ottawa East was a village, was the most active, efficient and prominent man in the vicinity. It was he, as one of its public men, who looked after the finances, who was active in placing the water works system on a paying basis, and to whom credit is due for the many improvements that were made in its streets, roadways, parks, and other general matters. He took good care of the baby settlement, watched and guarded the progress, and succeeded in having it become annexed to the city of Ottawa; and now, in his advanced years, he sits contentedly in his home and views with delight the rapid progress that is being made in the erection of buildings, the handsomely paved streets and the increase in population. Mr. James Ballantyne is a member of the firm of J. & T. Ballantyne, Coal Merchants, 80 Elgin St., Ottawa. He is the son of Francis and Marion (Nichol) Ballantyne, and was born at New Castleton, Scotland, May 9, 1835. He was educated at the Public and High Schools, and at Queen’s College, Kingston. He started in business with J. & T. Ballantyne, manufacturers of woodenware in Ottawa in 1863, and in 1890 established the present firm of J. & T. Ballantyne, Coal Merchants. At one time he was Manager and Director of the Ottawa East Water Co., was a member of the County Council for nine years, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Ottawa East Public Schools for fifteen years. In 1862 Mr. Ballantyne married Mary Foster, daughter of Adam Foster, of Cumberland, England. Two sons and two daughters have blessed the union. Mr. Ballantyne is a Protestant in religion, a Liberal in politics, and he resides at 54 Main Street, Ottawa East, Canada.

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=Hudson, Hon. Albert Blellock, LL.B., K.C.=, Attorney-General and Minister of Telephones and Telegraphs in the government of Manitoba, was born at Pembroke, Ont., on August 21, 1875, the son of Albert and Elizabeth Hudson. His parents removing to Manitoba, he was educated at Portage la Prairie and Manitoba University, Winnipeg, where he took the degree of LL.B. He was called to the Bar in 1899, and commenced practice in Winnipeg, where his forensic abilities soon attracted attention. He is a Bencher of the Law Society and was appointed K.C. in 1914. In that year he successfully contested South Winnipeg for the Manitoba Legislature as a Liberal candidate and was re-elected in 1915, in the contest that resulted in the defeat of the Roblin administration. When Hon. Mr. Norris was called on to form a government he invited Mr. Hudson to become Attorney-General, a post he has held ever since, discharging also the important duties in connection with public control of telephones and telegraphs. As Attorney-General he had much to do with the cleaning up of political conditions which had become a public scandal. He is a member of the Manitoba, Winnipeg Golf and Assiniboia Curling Clubs, and is a Presbyterian in religion. In 1908 he married Mary B., daughter of the late William Russell, Crown Timber Agent, Pembroke, Ont., and resides at 208 Dromore Ave., Winnipeg.

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=Carson, Hugh=, is one of Ottawa’s most successful merchants and his firm—Hugh Carson Company, Limited—has a successful branch at Brandon, Manitoba. Starting out in 1886, at Shelburne, Ontario, as a harness-maker, in 1890 he went to Ottawa and became connected with the well known firm of S. & H. Borbridge, Trunk and Harness Manufacturers, Rideau St. Three years later, in 1893, he went into business for himself and established a large trade. In 1900 he was burned out, but in 1904, having secured his present commodious premises, corner Elgin and Queen Sts., he opened up on a larger scale than ever and the business has grown to such vast dimensions that orders from all over Canada, and, since the war began, from Europe, have compelled the engagement of hundreds of extra hands to cope with the situation. Mr. Carson is President and Managing Director of the Hugh Carson Company, Limited, Manufacturers of Harness, Trunks and Valises, 47 Elgin St., Ottawa, and a director of the following companies: Ottawa Dairy Company; Ottawa Bakeries, Limited; Laurentian Realty Company, Limited; Canada Turpentine, Limited; and Ottawa Cartage Company, Limited. He was born at Orangeville, Ontario, February 8, 1868, and is the son of Gilbert and Ellen (Little) Carson. For years he was Quartermaster of the 5th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards and is now Captain. He has been prominent in all kinds of sports and has been a leading figure in rowing, yachting, lacrosse, curling and hockey contests. Mr. Carson is a member of the Laurentian, the Ottawa Hunt, Rivermead Golf, Jovial Fish and Game and Ottawa Motor Boat Clubs. From 1890 to 1898 he was captain of the Capital Lacrosse Club, which held the championship for that period. Mr. Carson attends the Presbyterian Church. His residence is 324 Cooper Street, Ottawa.

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=Woods, Lieutenant-Colonel James W.= (Ottawa, Ont.). Born at Kildare, Que., April 10th, 1863, son of Russel Woods, a successful farmer and lumberman, whose ancestors were from Kildare, Ireland, and Anne J. (Davis) Woods, of Canadian parentage, she being born at Longueuil, Montreal. Educated at private schools and Montreal College. At an early age entered service of Rankin, Beattie & Co., Montreal, later served with A. W. Ogilvie & Company, three years; next associated himself with Hodgson, Summer & Co., Montreal. Established business on his own account, 1895, and by his own effort and ability has built up the largest and most successful contractors’ and lumbermen’s supply house in Canada. This progressive concern, now known as Woods Mfg. Co., occupies a large factory, covering many acres, at Hull, Que. Besides constructing this plant he is also the builder of and owner of the Woods Building, now occupied by the Government and housing the Militia Department, also the Canadian building adjoining the same, as well as the Roxborough Apartments building. All of these splendid structures are of stone and modern in every respect. Woods Ltd., and Smart-Bag were merged as Smart-Woods Limited (the name being changed in 1918 to Woods Mfg. Co., Ltd.) with Colonel Woods as President, Jan. 1, 1913, with factories at Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Ottawa. Mr. Woods is one of the most

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public-spirited and patriotic citizen of the Dominion of Canada. Is Vice-President, Canadian Manufacturers Association; President, Ashbury College, Rockliffe; and numerous other corporations. President, Ottawa Board of Trade, 1907-8, and was active in promoting the welfare of Ottawa. Chairman of Citizens’ Committee of Finance that raised a fund of $200,000 for the Y. M. C. A. of Ottawa, and one of the most active members of that body. President, Carleton General Protestant Hospital; President, Woods Mfg. Co., Ltd., largest contractors and Lumbermen’s Supply House in Canada; President, Imperial Realty Co.; President, Ottawa Uplands, Ltd.; President, Elgin Realty Co.; President, Empire Cotton Mills, Ltd., Welland; Lieut.-Colonel of Governor-General’s Foot Guards. Was elected an honorary member of famous Guards’ Club, London, England, during the time—1909, 1910—he was attached to the Coldstream Guards, England’s most exclusive military body. Is permanent Chairman of Finance of the Earl Grey Musical and Dramatic Competition, which is held in various parts of the Dominion for the purpose of promoting the higher forms of musical and dramatic art. Is a great lover of art, and has in his collection at Kildare House, Ottawa, examples of most of the Barbazon and Dutch schools of art—such men as Corot, Jacques, Daumier, Mauve, Israels, L’Hermith, Harupignies, etc. Married Ida E. Edwards, daughter of John C. Edwards, Ottawa, Oct. 18, 1893, and has three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Captain J. R. Woods, was the first colonial to secure a commission in the household Brigade. He was killed in action in the Great War in the battle of the Somme on the 16th of September, 1916, receiving honorable mention in the despatches and made a captain on the field before he was twenty-one years of age. Captain Woods went through many notable engagements and was on active service for nineteen months before he met his death so gallantly on the field. Lieutenant-Colonel Woods belongs to the following Clubs: Ottawa Hunt (was its first president, H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught being Honorary President); Rideau Club; Country Club; Mount Royal (Montreal); Toronto (Toronto); Manitoba (Winnipeg); York Club, Toronto; Windham, London (Eng.); and numerous others. He is Vice-President of the Red Cross; President of the British Sailors’ Relief Fund and President of Finance of the Patriotic Fund. He is a member of the Church of England and Independent in politics. His principal recreations are golf, fishing and riding. He has a beautiful summer residence known as “Kildare Lodge,” St. Patrick, on the lower St. Lawrence.

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=Harrison, Nathaniel Isles=, Principal Willis Business College, 139½ Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, was born in Pembroke, Ont., July 13, 1877. He is the son of John and Margaret (Isles) Harrison, and was educated at the Public and High Schools in Pembroke and Renfrew Model School. He taught school in Renfrew County from 1896 to 1898, when he engaged in the lumber business in the Ottawa Valley, where he remained until 1902. In 1903 he accepted a position as teacher in Willis Business College, and left in 1904 to become Chief Accountant for J. Oliver & Sons, Ottawa’s extensive furniture manufacturers. In 1906 he went to British Columbia and became Secretary and Business Manager of the Cranbrook Electric Light Company, Limited; the Water Supply Company, Limited, and the Kootenay Telephone Lines, Limited, resigning from office in 1910, he branched out as auditor, Accountant and liquidator on his own account, at which he remained until 1912, when he returned to Ottawa. In June, 1913, he purchased the Willis Business College, of which he is now President. On January 20, 1908, Mr. Harrison married Helena Scott, daughter of David Scott, Merrickville, Ontario. He has one son and two daughters. He is a member of the Canadian Club, Glebe Curling Club and Kiwanis Club, the Business Men’s Club, and of the A.F. & A.M. society. In religion he is a Methodist. He is an ardent canoeist. His recreations are hunting, fishing, curling, canoeing. His address is 131 Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa.

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=Berthiaume, Arthur= (Montreal), one of the best known of French-Canadian publicists and who holds the position of President and Managing Director of “La Presse,” the most widely circulated newspaper published in Canada in either the French or English language, was born in Montreal on April 10, 1874. He is the son of the Hon. Treffle and Hermina (Gadbois) Berthiaume. He was educated at the Ste. Hyacinthe Seminary, St. Laurent College and Laval University, where he graduated with the usual degrees. His father designed him for the Bar and he read law with Beaudin, Cardinal & Loranger of Montreal. He was called to the Bar of the province of Quebec in 1906 and for a time practised his profession as a member of the firm of Beaulieu & Berthiaume. At the same time he has been connected with “La Presse,” of which Hon. Treffle Berthiaume was President, his connection having begun in 1900 when the property changed ownership. In 1906 the subject of this sketch was appointed General Manager of the newspaper, and in 1915 on the death of his father succeeded to the Presidency, abandoning the practice of law to devote his whole attention to “La Presse.” Great as was its position and influence previously these factors have been greatly extended under his fostering care. Not only is it the most widely circulated and influential of French language newspapers in Canada but it has a very wide following among the many French-Canadians settled in the New England States. These fields combined give “La Presse” the premier position in the Canadian newspaper field in the matter of circulation. The wise and moderate conduct of its columns also give its editorial utterances great weight with all classes of the community. In politics Mr. Berthiaume is an Independent and in religion a Roman Catholic. He is a well known social figure in Montreal and is a member of the following clubs: St. Denis, Chapleau, National, Athletique Canadien, Automobile (Director) and Engineers. On September 2, 1902, he married Blanche, daughter of Nazaire Bourgoin, Montreal and has three sons and one daughter. His residence is at 197 St. Catherine Road, Outremont, Montreal.

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=Galbraith, Walter Stuart, M.D., C.M.= (Lethbridge), one of the most prominent physicians of Alberta, was born at Guelph, Ont., August 1, 1866, the son of the late Francis William and Jane Elizabeth Galbraith. The father was a well known merchant of that city, and Dr. Galbraith was educated at the Public and High Schools of Guelph, and went to Alberta in 1891. Subsequently he entered McGill University, Montreal, from which he graduated with the above degrees in 1899. He at once commenced practise in Lethbridge as a member of the firm of Mewburn & Galbraith, but since 1907 has practised alone and includes among his many professional activities those of surgeon of the Galt mines. His high standing among his fellow practitioners was signalized by his election as President of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in 1917; and he has been a Senator of the University of Alberta since the incorporation of that institution. Dr. Galbraith has also played a prominent part in municipal affairs, was Mayor of Lethbridge in 1907, and has been a member of the Public School Board for nine years, holding the post of Chairman in 1912. He is President of the Bow River Collieries, Ltd., and a Director of the British Canadian Trust Co., Ltd. In religion he is a Methodist, and is a supporter of Union government; is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and the Canadian Order of Foresters. He also belongs to the Chinook Club, Lethbridge, and his recreation is motoring. On August 6, 1901, he married Matilda S., daughter of Oliver Gallinger, a farmer of Mediva, Ont., and has four children, Ruth Eleanor, Francis Oliver, Jean Alexandra and Aileen Stuart (deceased).

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=Laidlaw, Lorne Nelson=, Barrister, Medicine Hat, Alberta, was born at Kitchener (then Berlin), Ont., on February 6, 1882, and his parents subsequently moving to Manitoba, he was educated at Brandon Collegiate Institute and Brandon College. He was called to the Manitoba Bar 1908, and practised at Brandon, 1908-10. In 1911 he went to Medicine Hat and formed the legal firm of Laidlaw & Branchard. Both as a lawyer and a business man he quickly achieved a prominent place in the community and in 1914 was elected President of the Medicine Hat Board of Trade. In religion he is a Presbyterian and in politics a Liberal; is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Cypress Club, Medicine Hat. His recreations are motoring and shooting. On December 7, 1910, he married May, the daughter of the late Robert Hall, of Brandon, and has two children.

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