Part 45

=Hough, John Atwell= (Matheson, Ont.), Police Magistrate, was born in Ireland in 1882, and received his early education in England and Scotland, but migrated to Canada at an early age. He was appointed Mining Recorder, Larder Lake Mining Division, with headquarters at Larder Lake, Ont., in March, 1907; four years later, however, the boundaries of the Division were enlarged and the head office moved to Matheson, where he now resides. As Police Magistrate for the Town of Matheson and part of the District of Temiskaming, Mr. Hough was placed in charge of all relief work from Ramore to Porquis Junction, after the great fire which devastated Northern Ontario on July 29, 1916, and many stricken families have reason to be thankful for the energy and public spirit with which he discharged this difficult task. John Hough is a Conservative in politics and a member of the Masonic Order. By his wife, Myrtle, daughter of M. Donaghue of Windsor, Ont., he has two children.

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=Fifield, Albert Frank= (St. Catharines, Ont.), was born at Lowell, Mass., on Feb. 8, 1876. Son of Frank and Abie Mary (Cummings) Fifield, of Ashland, N.H. Educated at the Public Schools of New Hampshire and commenced his business career operating a machine shop in Ashland, in 1896. This he continued until 1905, when he accepted a position as Construction Superintendent of the Jenckes Machine Company, Quebec, and has ever since been a resident of Canada. In 1907 he set up business at St. Catharines and engaged in buying and selling machinery until 1910. He established the Reo Sales Company for the sales of Reo motor cars in Canada, and, during this period, organized and fully carried out a coast to coast motor trip in a Reo car. This was the first trip of the kind made in Canada and Mr. Fifield furnished the car and men. In 1914 he organized and became the first General Manager of the Metal Drawing Company, Ltd., of St. Catharines. In pursuance of his policy of building up new industries in the city of his adoption, Mr. Fifield, when the demand came for shells from the British War Office, sold out his other interests and engaged in the manufacturing of munitions on a large scale with great success. In fact, he was one of the most prominent figures in this industry during the Great War. He also organized the American Patriotic Fund among former residents of the United States living in St. Catharines, part of whose revenues were subsequently diverted to the associated charities of the city, of which he was for a time chairman and is now a member of the executive. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Local Branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund. He is Independent in politics, a Protestant in religion and a member of the A.F. & A.M. His recreations are motoring, angling and hunting and he belongs to the following clubs: St. Catharines, Niagara (Niagara Falls, N.Y.), Buffalo Motor, St. Catharines Golf, and St. Catharines Canoe. On May 25, 1904, he married Velma Faunee, daughter of A. N. Linscott, Damarscotta Mills, Maine, and has two daughters.

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=Wright, Harry George= (Hamilton, Ont.), Manufacturer, is the surviving partner and President of the E. T. Wright Company, Ltd., Tinware, founded in 1883, Mr. E. T. Wright having died in 1908, with whose passing the firm suffered the loss of a man whose practical knowledge and mechanical ability had done much to lay the foundations of the present flourishing business. Mr. H. G. Wright is well known throughout Canada, having represented the firm for many years on the road, where the many friends made in his younger days still know him best as “Harry.” Energetic and aggressive, he has always been the life of the concern since its inception. Coming as he does of good Devonshire fighting stock, it is not surprising to find that two of Mr. Wright’s sons are taking an active part in the Great War. Captain George Craig Wright, Vice-President of the firm, has just returned from the front, having served from the first and being the first officer to enlist in the Fourth Battalion of the City of Hamilton in 1914. He was the only officer of that battalion left at the battles of Langemarcke and Ypres, who was not either wounded, captured or killed. For efficient conduct he was promoted to his present rank and, although home on furlough, is

## acting as Brigade Major to the Sixth Brigade on the Niagara Peninsula.

Mr. Gordon Wright, the Treasurer, has received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Thirteenth Royals. The subject of this sketch was born at Bethany, Pa., December 11, 1855, the son of Thomas W. Wright, and came to Hamilton five years later, where he received his education in the Public School and Commercial College. In 1889 he married the daughter of George Craig, of R. Hay & Company, Toronto, Ont., and has five children—George Craig, Kate, H. Gordon, Phyllis and Jack Edwin. Mr. Wright is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. His recreations are golf and bowling, and he is a member of the following clubs: Hamilton, Commercial, Royal Yacht and Victoria Curling, all of Hamilton, and the Ontario, of Toronto.

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=Robertson, William Robert= (St. Catharines, Ont.), son of James J. and Elizabeth Robertson. Was born at Hamilton, Ont., on June 28th, 1875, where he received his education. Married September 17th, 1905, to Maud, daughter of P. J. O’Neil, of Merritton, Ont., and has one son (William.) Is the Superintendent of the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, and a member of the Masonic Order, Engineer’s Club, Toronto, and St. Catharines Club. Mr. Robertson has always been interested in amateur sports and was manager of the St. Catharines Hockey Team 1908-13; President of the Niagara District Baseball League, 1910-14. He has been identified with all patriotic movements and took a leading part in raising funds for war purposes. He is Secretary-Treasurer of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission; Secretary of St. Catharines Recruiting League and was Military Representative on the Conscription Tribunal at St. Catharines. Mr. Robertson holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Provincial Corps Guides.

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=Innes, Hugh Patterson, K.C.=, Barrister-at-Law of Simcoe, Ont., is a prominent figure in the politics of Western Ontario. He is a son of William P. and Marion (Livingstone) Innes and was born at Dundas, Ont. on Sept. 14th, 1870. His father is an eminent manufacturer and capitalist who was one of the pioneers of the canning industry in this country, and is now a Director of Dominion Canners, Limited. The subject of this sketch was educated at the public and High schools of Simcoe, Norfolk county, and studied for the legal profession at Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He was called to the Bar of Ontario on graduation in 1893, and has since practised at Simcoe, where he acts as Town solicitor and legal adviser for the Molsons Bank, Dominion Canners, Ltd., and other important institutions. He has also been a public and High school trustee for the town and was made a King’s Counsel in 1908. In the latter year he was the candidate of the Conservative party at the general elections for the Ontario Legislature and was elected. Subsequently he voluntarily resigned his seat to become the candidate of his party for the House of Commons in the Federal riding of Norfolk and was nominated in the spring of 1915, the date of the contest at that time being uncertain. In the autumn of 1917, however, after Union Government was formed it was necessary for Sir Robert Borden to ask certain Conservative candidates to make the sacrifice of withdrawing from the field in order to permit the election of prominent Liberals who had given their support to Union Government. Mr. Innes was one of these and his course in stepping aside assured the election of Hon. W. A. Charlton as a Liberal-Unionist representative of Norfolk. Nevertheless his election to the Commons at some future day may be regarded as a certainty. Mr. Innes is a Presbyterian and a member of the following lodges: Norfolk No. 10; A.F. & A.M. and Past Master Ezra Chapter, No. 23; Royal Arch Masons. On June 29th, 1898, he married Mabel M., daughter of His Honor Judge Livingstone of Norfolk County and has eight children, Margaret Livingstone; Hugh Paterson, Jr.; Robert T. L.; Helen M.; Constance M.; Grace L.; James S.; and Edith V. Innes.

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=Williams-Taylor, Sir Frederick, LL.D.= (Montreal, Que.), General Manager Bank of Montreal, is one of the outstanding figures in the financial world of Canada. During his eight years as Manager of the Bank’s London, England Branch, Sir Frederick was notably successful in financing many Canadian municipal and corporate undertakings in that market. Recently his abilities have been devoted to war-time financing in Canada. On both sides of the Atlantic, therefore, he has had wide experience in the flotation of high-class Canadian issues. In addition to being expert in all financial matters, Sir Frederick is possessed of marked personality and exceptional social charm. Born at Moncton, New Brunswick, October 23, 1863, the son of Ezekiel Moore Taylor and Rosalind Beatty. Sir Frederick entered the service of the Bank of Montreal in 1878; since then he has been successively Assistant Inspector, Head Office, 1897; Joint Manager, Chicago, 1903; Manager, London, Eng., 1906, and General Manager, November, 1913. The distinguished subject of this sketch was awarded a silver medal by the Royal Society of Arts for his paper, “Canadian Loans in London,” before the Royal Colonial Institute, 1912; was knighted, 1913, and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick, 1915. As a young man he won distinction in many forms of athletics, including rowing, tennis, squash and snow-shoeing. Sir Frederick married Jane Fayrer, daughter of Joshua Henshaw, Esq., Montreal, 1888, by whom he has one son, Lieutenant Travers Williams-Taylor, 13th Hussars, B.E.F., and one daughter, Mrs. Frank Duff Frazier, of 17 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y., and “Uplands,” Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. In addition to being General Manager of the Bank of Montreal, Sir Frederick is a Director of the Allan Steamship Company, Ltd., and the Liverpool and London & Globe Insurance Company, Ltd.; Director and member Executive Committee, Royal Trust Company, and Vice-President of the Canadian Bankers’ Association. His clubs include Mount Royal, St. James and University, Montreal, Que.; Rideau, Ottawa, Ont.; York, Toronto, Ont.; Metropolitan and Down Town, New York, N.Y.; St. James, Bath, City of London, Ranelagh and Swinley Forest Golf, all of London, Eng. Sir Frederick resides at 686 Mountain Street, Montreal.

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=Law, Bonnar B.= (Yarmouth, N.S.), late member of Parliament for Yarmouth County, N.S., was the son of William and Mary A. Law, of Yarmouth, and was born in Douglas, Mass., U.S.A., July 29, 1855. After graduating from the Yarmouth Public School, Mr. Law entered on a commercial career and was one of the successful merchants in his home town. For thirteen years he was a Director of the Exchange Bank of Yarmouth, until its absorption by the Bank of Montreal, and for six and a half years a town Councillor of Yarmouth. Mr. Law was a Director of the Canadian Wood Working Co., of the Yarmouth Hospital Society and of the Yarmouth Cemetery Co., as well as a trustee of the Yarmouth Public Library and of the Yarmouth Y.M.C.A. Mr. Law lost his life in the burning of the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, February 3, 1916. He was first elected to the House of Commons at a by-election, December 3, 1902, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr. Thomas B. Flint as Clerk of the House of Commons. The fact that the late member for Yarmouth County was elected to the House of Commons at Ottawa for a fourth term, with the largest majority ever given a candidate from that Constituency, testified to the esteem in which he was held by those who knew his worth. Mr. Law married Agnes M., daughter of Capt. Joseph B. Lovett, and had an only child, Dorothy I. Law. He was a Methodist in religion and a Liberal in politics.

[Illustration: SIR FRANK W. BAILLIE Toronto]

=Hunnisett, James Edward= (Toronto, Ont.), Educationist, is the son of Frank and Maria Hunnisett, and was born at Toronto, July 14, 1879. He was educated at Givens Street Public School and Harbord Collegiate Institute, Toronto, also at Hamilton Normal College, graduating in 1899. He married Clarice Emley, daughter of Thomas Fussell, construction contractor, in 1910, and has one daughter, Jean Eleanor, born in 1912. Having obtained a scholarship from the Public School in Toronto that gave him free tuition at the High School, Mr. Hunnisett had no difficulty in realizing his natural bent for educational work, and was appointed Assistant Master at Palmerston Ave. Public School, Toronto, in 1900. Since then he has been successively, Principal of Cottingham St. School, Toronto, 1907-09; Clinton St. School, Toronto, 1909-14, and Givens St. School, Toronto, 1914 to date. As member of a former championship team in Interfaculty Association Football at Toronto University, Mr. Hunnisett has always shown a consistent interest in promoting athletic games at the Public Schools of his city, and was President of the Toronto Public Schools Athletic Association in 1906. Mr. Hunnisett is a Conservative in politics and a Methodist in religion. His only fraternal connection is a life membership of St. Andrew’s Masonic Lodge, G.R.C. 16. Mr. Hunnisett has always worked along the line to make the Toronto Public School System second to none on the continent.

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=Norcross, Joseph W.= (Montreal, Que.), is one of the chief factors in the Canadian shipping industry, and though still in his forties has built up a very important position for himself in the Canadian business world. He was born at Port Colborne, Ont., on May 14th, 1871, the son of Samuel R. and Susan (Deeks) Norcross. His father was engaged in Lake transportation and the subject of this sketch after an education at Port Colborne public school and Welland High School, himself entered the same calling. As a mere boy from 1890 to 1892 he ran his own boat, S.S. Varuna on the Bay of Quinte. As he grew older he gradually increased his interests in connection with transportation on the Great Lakes; on extensive amalgamations being effected in 1913, became Vice-President and Managing Director of the Canada Steamships, Ltd., the most important shipping corporation on Canadian Inland waters, which has much to do with the handling of this country’s grain crop, and is also a dominant factor in passenger traffic. In addition to the offices named he is President of the Canadian Chadwick Metals Co., Ltd.; Vice President of the Canada West Coast Navigation Co., Ltd. of British Columbia; Vice-President of the Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.; Director of the Canadian Vickers, Ltd.; Director of the Sterling Bank of Canada; and Director of the Cluff Ammunition Co., Ltd. During the late war the Government availed itself of his expert talents by appointing him a Director of ship construction in connection with the Naval Service Department. In that capacity he rendered very valuable service to the Canadian community and refused to accept remuneration therefor. He is recognized by transportation men everywhere as one of the leading shipping experts of this continent. He is widely known in all the cities of the Great Lakes and a member of many clubs including the Albany and National (Toronto); Travellers’ (London); Montreal and St. James (Montreal); Mississauga Golf (Toronto); Cleveland Athletic Club; Kaministiquia (Fort William); and Shunia (Port Arthur). He is also a member of Montreal Board of Trade, the Toronto Board of Trade and the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. He is a Protestant in religion and was married on Jan. 2nd, 1895, to Jessie, daughter of John McCullough, Port Colborne, Ont., by whom he has two daughters, Jessie Eileen and Helen J. Norcross.

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=McCarthy, Jesse Overn= (Toronto, Ont.), Vice-President and General Manager of the Security Life Insurance Co. of Canada, has been somewhat prominently connected for twenty-five years with the life insurance business of the Dominion and in the field of Social Welfare and Moral Reform. Nearly thirty years ago he began giving addresses on Child Welfare Problems and on different phases of Social Welfare work and legislation, when to speak on these matters was like “a voice crying in the wilderness,” and has seen the objects which he so strongly advocated accomplished to a remarkable extent in legislative and practical effort by the city and province alike. During that time he has given over two thousand addresses before churches, Canadian Clubs and municipal organizations. His entry into the municipal life of Toronto, first as alderman and then as Controller, was due to the adverse conditions prevailing at that time in the Isolation Hospital and his desire to see a thoroughly up-to-date and efficient Health Department established. Outside authorities and those familiar with the situation have stated that he was able to strongly interest and influence the Council in all health and social problems, so that splendid progress was made during the time that he was connected with that body. A Methodist in religion and a Liberal in politics, Mr. McCarthy served as Alderman of the City of Toronto, 1910-1911, and as Controller, 1912-1914. He is a member of the Board of Trade, the Sons of Temperance, the Royal Templars of Temperance, the Canadian Order of Foresters, and the Protestant Benevolent Society, as also of Parkdale Canoe and Lawn Bowling Clubs. Mr. McCarthy is the son of Charles Calahan and Margaret Frances McCarthy. He was born in Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ont., November 10, 1867, and was educated in the Public Schools. He married Mary, daughter of James Grant Davis, Jarvis, Ont., August 10, 1892, by whom he has two daughters, Lilian Pearl and Mary Vourneen, and one son, Jesse Davis.

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=Massey, Charles Vincent= (Toronto, Ont.), Lecturer in Modern History, University of Toronto, and Dean of Residence, Victoria College, Toronto. The son of Chester D. Massey, Honorary President of the Massey-Harris Company, Ltd, and Anna (Vincent) Massey. Born in Toronto, on February 20, 1887. Educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1910) and Balliol College, Oxford (2nd Cl. Mod. Hist. B.A. 1913, M.A. 1918). Married 1915, Alice S., daughter of George R. Parkin, C.M.G., D.C.L., Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, by whom he has two sons, Lionel, born July 2nd, 1916, and Hart, born March 30th, 1918. Mr. Massey is a Director of the Massey-Harris Co., and of the Toronto Housing Co., a member of the Board of Governors, Toronto General Hospital, and of the Art Museum, of Toronto, Vice-Chairman of the Massey Foundation, a Governor of the Wesleyan College, Montreal, and a Director of Ridley College, St. Catharines. He held a commission in the University of Toronto contingent, C.O.T.C., 1914-1915, was appointed to Headquarters Staff, Military District No. 2, November, 1915, to take charge of musketry training, and was promoted temporary Lieut.-Col. October, 1916. (Mentioned for services). He was appointed Secretary of the War Committee of the Federal Cabinet, January, 1918, and Secretary of the Dominion Government Repatriation Committee in December, 1918, becoming in March, 1919, the Director of the Committee. He is a member of the York, University, Toronto Golf and Arts and Letters Clubs, all of Toronto, and of the Savile Club, London, England. A Liberal in politics, and a Methodist in religion. Residence, Dean’s House, Victoria College, Toronto.

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=Rowell, Hon. Newton Wesley, K.C., M.P.= (Ottawa, Ont.), is the son of late Joseph and Nancy (Green) Rowell. Was born in London Township, County of Middlesex, Ontario, on November 1, 1867, and was educated at the local Public Schools and the Ontario Law School, Osgoode Hall. He also holds the honorary degree of LL.D. from The North-Western University, Chicago (1915). Called to the Bar in 1891 with honors and medal, and created K.C. in 1902; has successfully practised his profession in Toronto as head of the law firm of Rowell, Reid, Wood & Wright, and has for many years been considered one of the leaders of the Bar. He has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1911, is a Senator of Toronto University, and a Regent of Victoria University and very prominently identified with the Methodist Church, and with the Laymen’s Missionary Movement, and also with the Christian Endeavor movement; formerly Vice-President of the Ontario Dominion Alliance. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the House of Commons for East York in 1900, and was first elected to the Ontario Legislature for the riding of North Oxford in 1911 and re-elected in 1914. Was Leader of the Liberal Opposition of the Ontario Legislature from 1911 to October, 1917, when he entered the Union Government at Ottawa, as President of the Privy Council. Honorable Mr. Rowell has a magnetic personality and is an exceptionally able platform speaker, and has a splendid grasp of all national matters. He has lectured on “Canada’s Future” and other national topics, and stands for the highest traditions of public life. He is a man of untiring energy and a gift of rare eloquence and a genius for public affairs. He has visited the Canadian soldiers in the trenches and has brought back messages from the boys at the front which he has delivered with much fervor. Honorable Mr. Rowell married, in June, 1901, Nellie, youngest daughter of Rev. Alex. Langford, D.D., of Toronto, and is the father of three children, William Langford, Mary Coyne and Frederick Nealon Alexander. He is a member of the following clubs: Rideau, York, National, Ontario, Rosedale Golf Club, Alpine Club of Canada. He finds recreation in horseback riding and golf.

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=Sauvé, Arthur, M.L.A.= (Saint Benoit, Deux Montagnes), is leader of the Liberal-Conservative opposition to the government of Sir Lomer Gouin. As such he advocates, particularly, the fostering of agriculture and its allied industries, as also of those questions of social and political economy which most affect his province at the present time. Born at St. Hermas, Que., October 1, 1875, the son of Jos. Sauvé, the member for Two Mountains was educated at St. Therese College and married the daughter of L. de J. Lachaine, Notary Public. His children are Mercedes, Paul, Gustave and Pauline Sauvé. He is a Journalist by profession, a member of the Club Canadien, and the Club Morin, and a Roman Catholic in religion. Mr. Sauvé was elected a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec for the Constituency of Two Mountains, in 1908, by a majority of 174, and in 1912 by a majority of 276. In the elections of 1916 he was returned by acclamation and chosen as Leader of the Liberal-Conservative party in the Province.

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