Part 39

=McClennaghan, Stewart.= Who is there in Ottawa that has not heard of, or does not know, Stewart McClennaghan? Yes! who does not know him? No one in the city, or for that matter for many miles of country surrounding the Capital of the Dominion, can be found that does not know the President and General-Manager of the famous 2 Macs, Limited, dealers in fine tailoring, hats, furnishings, clothing and boots and shoes, for men and boys, with entrances on Sparks, Bank and Queen Streets, at the busy Corner—corner of Sparks and Bank Streets, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Not only is he well known: he is also one of the most popular business men, social companion, lover of sports, and general good fellow with all his friends, acquaintances and customers to be found in any community, and his success in life, and his popularity, are what have sprung from his open, genial and straightforward conduct towards and with all who have had the good fortune to come in contact with him ever since he arrived in Ottawa in 1879 when he became an apprentice in the dry goods business in which line he served for ten years. Mr. McClennaghan has held almost every public office in the gift of the citizens of Ottawa—Public School Trustee, member of the Collegiate Institute Board, Controller of the City of Ottawa, Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board, President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, Justice of the Peace, Member of the Board of Trade, Chairman of the Boxing Committee of the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club, Vice-President of the Sportsmen’s Patriotic Association, President of the Liberal Conservative Association, Promoter of the Connaught Park Jockey Club and a member of the Original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway Scheme which to-day is receiving such prominent attention from all lovers of good roads and from the Ontario Government—and could have held them all and been elected to others of equal or even more importance had he so desired. Whenever he was put forward as a candidate for any office—public, political, educational, sporting or social, his election was assured, and when he consented at a most critical time in the history of Ottawa’s Municipal Administration, to be a candidate for Controller he polled the largest majority ever secured by any man running for public office in the city. In addition Mr. McClennaghan is profoundly patriotic and public spirited and ever since the war started has been active, energetic and generous in helping forward Canada’s effort. His son, Lieut. Stewart Lyon McClennaghan served in France with distinction in the Royal Flying Corps, and his nephew, Lieut. Vivian S. C. McClennaghan of the Canadian Engineers, son of Mr. James McClennaghan of the Marine Dept., has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery while in charge of an important tract which was being heavily shelled and bombed and completed his task though twice buried by shell fire. In 1889 Mr. Stewart McClennaghan formed a partnership with the late Mr. M. D. MacKay as merchant tailors under the name of the 2 Macs—McClennaghan & MacKay. Three years later, in 1892, Mr. McClennaghan bought out Mr. MacKay and continued in the business until 1904 when he organized a joint stock company under the name of the 2 Macs, Limited, he becoming President and Managing-Director. To-day the business is recognized as one of the largest outfitting establishments in Canada, handling everything in boys’ and men’s wear, and occupying some 5,000 square feet of floor space, with a frontage of 100 feet on Bank Street, 66 feet on Sparks Street, and 33 feet on Queen Street, with the prospects in evidence that considerably more space will shortly be necessary if the business continues to expand as it has during the past decade. From 1900 to 1908 Mr. McClennaghan was a member of the Public School Board and was chairman for two years, and from 1908 to 1911 he was a member of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board from which he resigned to run for Controller of the City of Ottawa, as above stated. During the existence of the City’s Publicity Board Mr. McClennaghan was Chairman. Mr. McClennaghan is Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board and has been a member of the Board for many years. He is President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association. His first year of office, 1917, terminated with the Exhibition showing the largest receipts ever obtained in the history of the Association. He is a Justice of the Peace for the City of Ottawa and for the County of Carleton. He is a member of the Council of the Board of Trade, and has been a member of the Board for years. In amateur sports Mr. McClennaghan has been prominently identified for many years. In 1890 he won the gold medal presented by the Ottawa Amateur Association for the one mile snow shoe championship of the city. He was President of the Ottawa Bicycle Club and a member of their racing team. He was Chairman of the Board Committee of the Ottawa Athletic Club for several years. He is one of the promoters of the Connaught Park Jockey Club, became Vice-President, and is now Chairman of the Management Committee. He is Vice-President of the Sportsmen’s Patriotic Association, and it is he who is responsible for and was one of the original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway Scheme. From 1916 to 1918 Mr. McClennaghan was President of the Ottawa Liberal Conservative (now Unionist) Association. Mr. Stewart McClennaghan is the son of William John (Contractor) and Sarah (Boyd) McClennaghan and a nephew of Mr. N. K. Boyd, ex.-M.P. for MacDonald, Manitoba. He was born at Oxford Mills, Ontario, July 14, 1866, and he was educated at the Ottawa Public Schools. August 19, 1895, he married Matilda A. Lyon, daughter of the late John G. and Victoria Lyon, of Ottawa. The union has been blessed with two sons and five daughters—Lieut. Stewart Lyon, Nora Boyd, Hilda Brook, Ruth Hasley, Helen Read, Hugh John, Doris Victoria. He is a member of the following Clubs: Laurentian, Rivermead Golf, Victoria Yacht, Abitibi Fish and Game, and of the following Societies: Masonic, Oddfellows, Foresters and Workmen. In religion he is Anglican and in politics Conservative. For recreation he indulges in golf, hunting and yachting. His military career was spent in the ranks of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. His place of residence is 330 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Buchanan, William A., M.P.= (Lethbridge, Alta.), Publisher, was born in Fraserville, Peterboro County, Ont., July 2, 1876; the son of Rev. Wm. Buchanan. His earlier education took place in the Public and High Schools of Trenton, Brighton and Norwood, Ont. He first became interested in newspaper work in Peterboro, Ont., and later was News Editor of the “Evening Telegram,” Toronto, removing from there to accept the position of managing director of the St. Thomas Journal; remaining in that position until 1905, when he decided to try his fortune in the West, locating at Lethbridge, Alberta, where he established and became publisher of the “Lethbridge Herald,” first as a weekly and, in 1907, changed it to a daily. For two years he was President of the Alberta and Eastern British Columbia Press Association, and Director of the Western Associated Press. He entered politics in 1909, in the Liberal interests, and was elected as the first member to represent Lethbridge City in the Alberta Legislature, and became a member of the Rutherford Government in the fall of the same year. In 1911 he resigned, over a difference of opinion on a railway bargain, and then contested the Constituency of Medicine Hat for the House of Commons, defeating the late member, C. A. McGrath (Conservative) by a majority of 1,500. Mr. Buchanan was a member of the Special House of Commons Committee on old age pensions and on redistribution. In the general elections of 1917 he was a candidate as a Unionist Liberal, and was elected by a majority of several thousand. He is now Unionist Whip for Alberta. In 1918 he was a member of the party of Canadian Journalists invited to visit the Western front and Great Britain. During the war he was actively engaged in patriotic movements, more especially the Patriotic Fund and Belgian Relief Fund. While living in Ontario, Mr. Buchanan took a great interest in military affairs and became Quartermaster of the 25th Regiment, at St. Thomas. He is interested in all kinds of sports and takes a keen pleasure in golf; was Secretary and Treasurer of the Ontario Hockey Association during John Ross Robertson’s Presidency, and was the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Alberta Amateur Athletic Association; is a member of the Chinook and the Country Clubs of Lethbridge; Ontario Club, Toronto, and the Laurentian Club, Ottawa. For two years he was President of the Canadian Club, of Lethbridge. Mr. Buchanan married Alma Maude Freeman, daughter of Edwin B. Freeman, of Burlington, Ont., and has one son, Donald W., born April 9, 1908. He is a member of the Methodist Church.

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=Williams, Herbert Hale=, head of the firm of H. H. Williams & Co., Toronto, Ont. The name of H. H. Williams is a familiar one in the Canadian real estate field. For many years now his firm, that of H. H. Williams & Co., with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, has occupied a prominent place among the old-established and conservative real estate businesses of the Dominion. Mr. Williams himself, who is the active head of the firm, is a native of Toronto. Born on September 21, 1862, he received his education in the local public schools and the Toronto Grammar School. For a short time after matriculating from the latter institution, he studied law in the office of George Morphy, but presently relinquished the idea of becoming a lawyer in favor of following a mercantile career. His first employment was obtained in the office of Taylor Bros., paper manufacturers, Toronto, where for two years he filled the position of book-keeper. Then he turned his attention to the lumber business, in the prosecution of which he met with much success. He succeeded in developing an extensive connection with the railroads of the country, furnishing them with the timber and manufactured lumber needed in construction and also built up a considerable export trade to the United States in clear lumber. In 1886 Mr. Williams withdrew from the lumber business and entered the real estate field. He founded the firm of H. H. Williams & Co. and began those operations which have subsequently established his reputation as a sane, far-sighted and reliable dealer. To give some idea of the extent and importance of the undertakings which Mr. Williams has handled during the past few years in Toronto, mention might be made of the following large transactions, all of which were carried through in their entirety by the firm of H. H. Williams & Co.: The purchase for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company of the right-of-way along the Esplanade; the purchase, also for the C.P.R., of the old Government House property on King Street, together with three blocks of land extending from Simcoe Street to Spadina Avenue, south of King Street, in connection with the establishment of freight terminals; the purchase of the two blocks bounded by Yonge, Carlton, Church and Alexander Streets, which with subsidiary properties involved an investment of over five million dollars; the purchase, on behalf of the Dominion Government, of properties required for a new general post office, a new railway postal station and an enlarged customs house; and the purchase of the two blocks bounded by Yonge, College, Teraulay and Hayter Streets, comprising nine acres of land in the very heart of Toronto and forming one of the most important retail locations in the city.

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=Deroche, William Paschal= (Napanee, Ont.), Local Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ontario, is the son of Paschal and Elizabeth Jane Deroche, and married on January 1, 1919, Helen Aylesworth Asselstine, daughter of the late Benjamin Asselstine, of Kingston, Ont. He was born at Newburgh, Ont., on August 27, 1854, and educated at Newburgh Academy. After graduation, Mr. Deroche taught school at Deseronto (then Mill Point) and other places for five years successfully, and began the study of law in 1878 with his brother, the late H. M. Deroche, K.C., and Judge Madden, at Napanee, and also with the well-known firm of Beatty, Blackstock & Co., at Toronto. He was appointed local Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ontario, Clerk of the County Court and Registrar of the Surrogate Court in June, 1887, and has been a member of the Public Library Board in Napanee for several years. Outside of these offices, however, Mr. Deroche has sought no public honors, devoting his entire energies and finding his best reward in discharging them to the satisfaction of the public and the members of his chosen profession. He is a member of the Anglican Church and a Liberal in politics. Judge Deroche, W. D. M. Shorey, Barrister, both of Belleville, Ont.; Col. Alex. P. Deroche, Director of Works and Buildings at Ottawa; and H. M. P. Deroche, Barrister, of Melville, Sask., are all nephews of Mr. Deroche. With the possible exception of Chief Justice Sir Glenholme Falconbridge, of Toronto, all the Judges of the High Court who were on the Bench when Mr. Deroche was appointed to his present position, are dead. His brother, H. M. Deroche, K.C., died March 10, 1916.

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=Forster, J. W. L.=, Artist (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Norval, Ont., and was educated at the Brampton Grammar School. Of him, an eminent public man gives us the following: “Canada, though in some senses a young country, has already produced a group of noted artists, whose depiction of her landscape and life is helping to make the Dominion known throughout the world. Among the leaders in this group is John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, than whom none of our artists has done so much for our national portraiture. Not only has he painted more of our public men than any of his contemporaries, but he is the only Canadian artist who has devoted his whole genius to the painting of portraits. If all Mr. Forster’s portraits of famous Canadians, which hang in public buildings and noted homes, were gathered together, they would in themselves constitute a large national portrait gallery, and this gallery would be quite representative of the great leaders in all walks of life. Among our statesmen—Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Alexander Mackenzie, John Sandfield Macdonald, Sir John Thompson, Robert Baldwin, Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, William S. Fielding, Sir George Ross and Sir James P. Whitney, constitute a comprehensive group. In divinity, such noted personalities as Punshon, Cavan, Carman, Primate Archbishop Machray, Primate Archbishop Sweatman, Bishop O’Connor, Milligan, Kellog, Maclaren; in the Judiciary—Chancellors Moss, Boyd, Meredith and Mulock; in University life—Paxton Young, Geikie, Nelles, Burwash, Rand, Wallace, Loudon and Galbraith; among noted military men—Wolfe, Brock, Roberts, Denison, Merritt and Otter; in other walks—Strathcona, Goldwin Smith, General Booth, Egerton Ryerson, Sir Sandford Fleming, Senator Cox, Senator Jaffray, MacKenzie King, Sir Gilbert Parker and George Brown are representative of a brilliant galaxy preserved to posterity by Forster’s indefatigable genius. Added to his Canadian clientele, Mr. Forster has in recent years painted many distinguished portrait subjects in the United States. Born in Halton County in the middle of the Nineteenth century, of cultivated English stock, he was reared, like other men of genius, amid the simpler pursuits of country life, and his pictures are therefore remarkable for subtle insight into character, and have at the same time the refined atmosphere of old world culture.”

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=Englehart, Joel Lewis= (Toronto, Ont.), Chairman of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (owned by the Province of Ontario), is the son of Joel and Hannah Englehart, and was born on November 2, 1847, in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his education there. He arrived in Canada in January, 1869, and soon afterward engaged in the oil business in London, Ont., becoming a producer, then a refiner and exporter, with offices in New York, and in 1881, when only thirty-four years of age, became Vice-President of the Imperial Oil Co., which position he still holds. In 1882 he removed to Petrolea, where he became, and still is, President of the Crown Savings & Loan Company, of Petrolea, and he is also Vice-President of the London & Western Trusts Co.; Director of the Bank of Toronto; ex-Governor of Toronto University and President of the Petrolea Liberal-Conservative Association, in addition to having many other business interests. In 1891 Mr. Englehart married Charlotte Eleanor, daughter of the late Thomas Thompson, of Adelaide, Ont., who died in 1908, and in whose memory he founded the Charlotte Eleanor Hospital in Petrolea in 1910, which is on the site of his old homestead and surrounded by thirty-five acres of land. In 1909 he gave an X-Ray equipment to St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and in the following year a chime of eleven bells, one of the finest in the Province, to Christ Church, Petrolea, and it is safe to assume that his private generosity has more than kept pace with his public benefactions. In March, 1905, Mr. Englehart was appointed Chairman of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway Commission and his success in developing what he is pleased to call “Greater Ontario” has amply justified the late Sir James Whitney’s choice in placing him in this responsible position. He has been accustomed to business on a large scale, involving powers of comprehension, quick perception and careful calculation, and on his appointment, turned his ability and experience to good account in the service of the Province. He is very much interested in the extension of the road and the development of the vast farming, timber and mining country it serves, as may be judged from the fact that only eleven times during the twelve years he has been Chairman of the Commission has he missed his monthly trip over the road, and only once has he taken a month’s holiday. He believes that “Greater Ontario” is the biggest asset Canada has and is firmly convinced that no spot on the continent affords such opportunity for success as the territory traversed by the T. & N.O. Railway System and that to which it has not yet extended. In support of this claim, Mr. Englehart refers to a series of articles published in the “Globe” of August, 1916, which has previously been somewhat critical, written by that paper’s farming editor, and giving statistics to show that the production both in roots and grain per acre in “Greater Ontario” was far in excess of the best returns in the older sections of the Province. Mr. Englehart is both the apostle and the prophet of the North, enthusiastically proclaiming its unrivalled potential possibilities, and as he is better informed on the subject than any other man, his statements may be accepted at face value. Mr. Englehart is an Episcopalian in religion and a Mason. His clubs are the New York, Toronto, Albany, Empire, Toronto Hunt and Ontario Jockey, and the London, of London, Ont. Genial, a versatile and convincing conversationalist, alert and strong willed, he works actively in the immense field he supervises and takes keen pleasure in its development.

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=MacKenzie, John Angus=, who was born at Guelph, Ontario, October 20, 1878, was educated at the Public and High Schools, Harriston, and the Model School, Guelph, Ontario, and taught school at Hanover, Ontario, from 1897 to 1898. From 1899 to 1901 he was assistant to C. M. Hayes, General Manager of the Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal. Arriving in Ottawa in the latter year he started in business for himself, and to-day is President of MacKenzie Limited, Manufacturers of Railway and Lumbermen’s Supplies, 132 to 136 Lyon Street, Ottawa, whose trade extends throughout Canada and to other parts of the world. From 1903 to 1907 Mr. MacKenzie served as Lieutenant of Company A, Governor-General’s Foot Guards. His brother, James David MacKenzie was killed on September 28, 1918, while fighting at the front in the great World War. Twice before he had been wounded and had just returned to the front in France when he met his death. Two brothers, W. M. and Thomas, served King and Country, the former being gassed and wounded, and a sister, Margaret, served as a nurse at the Orpington Hospital, England. Mr. MacKenzie in 1901 married Jean Andrew, daughter of Archibald Andrew, one of Ottawa’s most charming vocalists, as a result of which he has one son and one daughter. Mr. MacKenzie’s father and mother, Kenneth and Mary MacKenzie, reside on Melgund Avenue, Ottawa. Mr. MacKenzie is a Liberal in politics, and for years was Secretary of Ottawa Reform Association. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. Society. His recreations are fishing and tennis, and his place of residence 229 Clemow Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Harkin, James B.=, is one of those successful journalists who have been selected by the Dominion Government to occupy important positions in the service of Canada. In appointing Mr. Harkin to the responsible position of Commissioner of Dominion Parks, the Government of Canada made a happy selection, and his work in connection with the Government-owned Parks of Canada—in his descriptive and handsomely printed and illustrated publications, in his general ability for such work and in his careful and personal attention to their care and improvement—is well seen in the vast improvements that have taken place and in the publicity that they have had. When Hon. Sir Clifford Sifton was Minister of Interior in 1903, he selected Mr. Harkin as his Private Secretary, which office he held with that distinguished gentleman until the latter resigned his portfolio in 1905. Hon. Frank Oliver, succeeding Sir Clifford as Minister of Interior, retained the services of Mr. Harkin until 1911, when he appointed him to his present position, viz., Commissioner of Dominion Parks. If anything, Mr. Harkin has proven more competent in his present position than he was when occupying the position of private secretary, and that is saying something. Mr. Harkin was born at Vankleek Hill, Ont., January 30, 1875, and received his education in the Public School, Vankleek Hill, and at the High School, Marquette, Michigan. He became connected with the newspaper work in Montreal in 1892 and served on the staff of the Ottawa “Journal” from 1893 to 1900. Mr. Harkin is the son of William and Eliza (McDonnell) Harkin, is a member of the Ottawa Civil Service and the Rivermead Golf Clubs. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and resides at 138 Lewis Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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