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Europe. He studied law with Sir John Gibson, and entered into practice in 1898 with the firm of Gibson, Martin & Osborne, and has retained his connection with Sir John Gibson under various firm names up to the present of Gibson, Levy and Gibson. He is largely engaged in corporation practice, the firm being counsel for, among other corporations, The Dominion Power & Transmission Co., Limited, Hamilton Street Railway, Hamilton Radial Electric Company, Canadian Westinghouse Co., Limited, National Steel Car Co., Limited, Landed Banking and Loan Company and The F. F. Dalley Corporations, Limited. Mr. Levy is interested in numerous enterprises, and is Vice-President of McKittrick Properties, Limited, a director of Canada Crushed Stone Corporation, Hamilton Hotel Company, Limited, and is Vice-President of Levy Bros. Co., Limited, the oldest and one of the most extensive wholesale and manufacturing jewellery firms in the Dominion. His reputation as a lawyer and a man is high with those who know him; “but,” as an intimate friend facetiously remarked, “it’s in bridge whist that he really shines.” And he was in charge of a team who held the Canadian Whist Championship for a number of years, and was a member of a team of the New York Bridge Whist Club that won the Atlantic Whist Trophy, one of the most important contests in America. His other recreations are golf, chess and fishing. He married on March 29, 1909, Blanche Ruth Shire, daughter of Adolph Shire, of Chicago, Ill., and has a daughter, Marion Louise, born in 1912, a son, Gabriel Herman, in 1915, and a son, John Gibson, in 1919, and enjoys life with them at his pleasant home, 193 James Street South. His clubs are Hamilton Club, Hamilton Golf and Country Club, Caledon Mountain Trout Club, Buffalo Club, Buffalo, N.Y., University Club, Toronto, New York Bridge Whist Club. He is a member of A.F. & A.M., Murton Lodge of Perfection, Moore Consistory, was T.P.G.M. of Murton Lodge of Perfection for years 1908-9. He is independent in politics.

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=Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard=, Senator and Postmaster-General, was born at Saint François du Lac, County of Yamaska, Quebec, December 14, 1874, and is the son of Louis M. and Elodie (Barnard) Blondin. He was educated in the Seminarie de Nicolet and Laval University. In 1900, Mr. Blondin was admitted to the practice of the notarial profession, and was appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court of County of Champlain. For two terms he was alderman in the Grand Mere Municipal Council. Having distinguished himself in law and municipal activities, he was nominated and elected to the House of Commons in 1908; was re-elected in 1911, and became Deputy-Speaker of the House. October 20, 1914, Mr. Blondin was appointed a member of the Privy Council of Canada, and was sworn in as Minister of Inland Revenue. October 6, 1915, he was appointed Secretary of State, and Postmaster-General January 8, 1917. Realizing that the serious turn the great world war had taken called for Canada’s best efforts to be evident in the firing line, and satisfying himself in the decision that all who could should give the best mental and manual assistance they possessed to the Entente forces, on March 21, 1917, Mr. Blondin resigned his portfolio as Postmaster-General, raised the 258th Battalion, of which he became Lt.-Colonel, and with his regiment started overseas, where he remained until July, 1918, when he returned to Canada. Landing at Halifax, July 8, 1918, Mr. Blondin was accorded a cordial reception and hearty congratulations in recognition of the valiant services he had rendered while on military duty in France and Italy. Having been defeated in his candidature for re-election to the House of Commons at the general election in 1917, notwithstanding that he had resigned his office as Postmaster-General and had voluntarily donned the King’s uniform to serve abroad in the cause and defence of Canada and the Empire, on July 21, 1918, on his return to Ottawa, Mr. Blondin was requested by Sir Robert Borden to assume his duties as Postmaster-General, and to accept a Senatorship in succession to the late Senator Sheyn. July 2, 1902, Senator Blondin married Marie Rose Buisson, daughter of Louis L. F. T. Buisson, of Saint François du Lac, Quebec, and has one daughter. Clubs: Canadian Club of New York, Rideau Club, Ottawa. Commander of the Legion of Honor. A Roman Catholic in religion and a Unionist in politics, his home address is Ottawa, Ont., and his official address as Postmaster-General, Ottawa, Ontario.

[Illustration: Lieut. Col. Arthur Peuchen, Toronto W.G. Harris, Toronto]

=Pedley, Frank, B.A.=, ex-Superintendent of Immigration and Deputy Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, entered the Civil Service as Superintendent of Immigration in 1897, and in 1902 was promoted to the position of Deputy Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs, which position he held to the end of the Laurier administration and for some years after the Borden Government had come into power in 1911, when he resigned to resume his practice as a barrister, etc. During Mr. Pedley’s terms of office in the public service, Canada and Canada’s great natural resources and opportunities, the fertility of the soil, and the millions of acres awaiting the attention of the husbandman, and the open door to success and happiness that was in store for all who came to Canada to help in her development, were made known throughout the world by advertising and specially appointed agents and exhibition displays in a manner that was never before anticipated, and with the result that the peoples from all quarters of the globe, including hundreds of thousands from Great Britain and the United States, left to make Canada their future home. Mr. Pedley is the son of Rev. Charles and Sarah (Stowell) Pedley, of Hanley, Staffordshire, England, and was born at St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 25, 1858. He was educated at private schools in St. John’s, the public and high schools in Ontario, and at McGill University, Montreal, where he graduated in 1886 a B.A., with first class honors. He practised law at Toronto until 1897, when, at the invitation of Sir Clifford Sifton, he entered the Civil Service. On Aug. 28, 1895, Mr. Pedley married Helen Louise Hobart, daughter of Sidney and Mary Ann Hobart of Cobourg, Ontario. Mr. Pedley is a member of St. George’s Society. In politics he is a Liberal. He resides at 483 Maclaren Street, and his office is at 46 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

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=Miller, Frederick Robert= (Western University, London, Ont.), son of A. F. Miller and Elizabeth Crean. Was born at Toronto. Educated at Jarvis Street Collegiate Institute, Toronto, and at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1907, holding degrees of M.A., M.B. Was Assistant in Physiology in Cornell University for two years. Demonstrator of Physiology in the University of Toronto 1907-10. Studied in Munich 1910-1911, where he obtained the degree of M.D. from the University of Munich. Took a post-graduate course in the University of Strasbourg, and afterwards spent some time attending clinics in Paris, France. Afterwards studied for a year at the University of Liverpool with Prof C. S. Sherrington. Was Lecturer on Physiology, McGill University, 1912-1914. Studied in University of Oxford during summer of 1914. Appointed Professor of Physiology at Western University, London, Ont., 1914, which position he still fills with distinction. Dr. Miller is an Anglican in religion, and holds a commission as Captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He has contributed a number of articles to British and American journals on physiological subjects. He has travelled extensively, visiting the most important educational centres both in Europe and America.

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=Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, M.D., F.A.C.S., M.P.P.=, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, during the late war, proved himself one of the ablest members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was born at Charlottetown on November 12, 1858, the son of John T. and Jessie Esther (Rice) Jenkins. His paternal grandfather was Rev L. C. Jenkins, and his maternal one, Captain the Hon. Stephen Rice. His father John T. Jenkins, M.D., M.R.C.S. (Eng.), was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1884 to 1887. The subject of this sketch was educated at King’s College, Windsor, N.S., and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A., from which he graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1884. Returning to Charlottetown, he entered on the practice of his profession, and became one of the best known physicians in the Maritime Provinces. He is a member of the Dominion Medical Council. In 1912, he was elected to the Legislature of Prince Edward Island as Liberal-Conservative member for Charlottetown, and was re-elected at the general elections in 1915. In September of the latter year, he also became a member of the provincial cabinet, without portfolio. He was on active service in connection with the late war from March, 1915, until his discharge in April, 1919, holding the rank of Lieut.-Col. in the Canadian Army Medical Service, and had charge of the Military Hospital at Rockhead, Halifax, N.S., in 1915. He was a Roman Catholic in religion, a Conservative-Unionist in politics, and a member of the Q.G.D., and the Charlottetown Club. In October, 1886, he married Ellen J., daughter of Patrick Sweeney, merchant, of Charlottetown, and has nine children. His eldest son, Lieut.-Col. John S. Jenkins, D.S.O., had a distinguished career overseas during the late war; also his second son, Henry G., served overseas with the 3rd Bn. C.E., 1st Division, as Capt.; and his other children are, Mary E., Helen J., Nora I., Margaret L., Hilda, Louis C., and M. Stephanie Jenkins.

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=Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, M.P.P.=, Attorney-General and Minister of Labor for British Columbia, has for some years been recognized as one of the leading lawyers on the Pacific Coast. He is, however, a native of New Brunswick, and was born at White’s Cove in that province on December 3, 1878. His father, Hon. L. P. Farris, was formerly Minister of Agriculture for New Brunswick. The subject of this sketch was educated at St. Martin’s Seminary and Acadia University, N.B., graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1899. Subsequently, he took a course at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the legal degree of LL.B. in 1902. In connection with both degrees he took honors. In the same year he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and, having been called to the bar of the province, commenced the practice of law in that city. Within two years he was appointed City Prosecuting Attorney, a post he filled from 1904 to 1906. At the same time he became prominent in politics, and served as President of the Vancouver Liberal Association. In the political upheaval of 1916 he fought strongly for a change of government, and himself stood as one of the Liberal candidates for the Legislature in Vancouver city. He was elected, and proved one of the ablest of the new members that the contest brought into the House. In 1917, the Hon. Mr. Brewster, then Prime Minister, asked Mr. Farris to take the portfolio of Attorney-General and that of Minister of Labor as well, and the latter accepted. Though young in parliamentary experience, Mr. Farris is looked upon as one of the coming men in Canadian politics. In religion he is a Baptist; and is a member of the Terminal City Club, Vancouver, and of the Union Club, Victoria, B.C. He married, in 1905, Evelyn F., daughter of Prof. E. M. Keirstead, D.D., of McMaster University, Toronto, and has four children, Katherine H., Donald F., Ralph K., and John L. Farris. Mr. and Mrs. Farris, until 1918, made their home in Vancouver, but now reside in Victoria, B.C.

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=Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, M.P.P.=, Minister of Lands and Mines for the Province of New Brunswick, resides at Shediac, N.B., where he is also engaged in lumbering and general mercantile business. He was born at Shediac on June 20, 1864, the son of Edward J. and Amelia E. Smith. His father was formerly a prominent member of the New Brunswick Legislature, to which he was elected in 1884, and founded the commercial business now carried on by the subject of this sketch. Sir Albert J. Smith, Minister of Marine and Fisheries for Canada in the government of Hon. Alexander Mackenzie from 1874 to 1878, was an uncle. Hon. E. A. Smith was educated in the High School and also at a private school in Charlottetown, P.E.I., and originally adopted the profession of dentistry, graduating with the degree of D.D.S. in 1887. On leaving college he went to British Columbia, where he practised for two years, and subsequently practised for a year in New Brunswick. He entered his father’s business in 1891, and since 1912 has conducted it under his own name. In 1916, he was induced to follow the family tradition and enter politics, and was elected to the Legislature as Liberal for Westmorland County, defeating Hon. P. J. Mahony, Minister of Public Works. At the general elections of 1917, he was again elected, and was selected as a member of the Foster government, taking over the portfolio of Lands and Mines, for which his business experience amply qualified him. He has since given an effective business administration to the department which was sorely needed, and by his policies has materially added to the public revenues. Sat in Town Council, Shediac, for several years as Alderman, and elected Mayor for 1906 and 1907, by acclamation; President of Liberal Association for County of Westmorland from 1894 to 1911; President of Provincial Liberal Association several years, which position is still held. He is an Anglican in religion, and a Past Master, A.F. & A.M. His recreations are salmon and trout fishing and shooting of small and big game. On September 30, 1896, he married Euphemia, daughter of Mr. Colin Russell, of the Customs Department, Ottawa, and has four children: Gladys, born 1897; Russell, born 1899; Donald, born 1902; and John, born 1911. Though Mr. Smith’s official duties compel his presence in Fredericton, N.B., for the greater part of his time, he still makes his home at Shediac.

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=Turgeon, Hon. William Ferdinand Alphonse, K.C., M.P.P.=, Attorney-General of the Province of Saskatchewan, is one of the best known leaders of the legal profession in the Canadian West. He was born at Bathurst, New Brunswick, on June 3, 1877, the son of Onesiphore Turgeon, a French-Canadian journalist, and his wife Margaret Eulalia Baldwin, a lady of English descent. Politics comes naturally to him, for his father is a member of the House of Commons for Gloucester County, New Brunswick, and has long been a prominent figure in the public life of that province, while his brother, J. G. Turgeon, M.P.P., is a member of the Alberta Legislature. The subject of this sketch was educated in New York City, and later at Laval University, Quebec, graduating in Arts in 1899 with the degree of B.A., and in law in 1902. Shortly afterwards he went to the West, and was called to the bar of Saskatchewan. He also became prominent as a leader in the Liberal party, and at a by-election on October 12, 1907, was elected to the legislature for Prince Albert. At the general elections of August, 1908, he contested two ridings in behalf of his party—Prince Albert and Duck Lake. He was defeated in the former, but elected to the latter. At the general elections of 1912, he stood for the riding of Humboldt, and was successful, and has ever since represented that riding. Hon. Mr. Turgeon joined the Ministry of Hon. Walter Scott as Attorney-General on September 23, 1907, shortly before his first political contest in Prince Albert. He has ever since continued to hold that portfolio, and for some years filled that of Provincial Secretary as well. His oratorical powers are exceptional, and he speaks with equal facility both in French and English. He is a Roman Catholic in religion; and on February 18, 1901, married Gertrude, daughter of Gerome Boudreau, Petit Rocher, New Brunswick. He has five children: Alice, born May 13, 1902; Cecile, February 19, 1907; Wilfrid, August 20, 1910; Eveline, November 16, 1913; and Frances Regis, July 12, 1918. He resides at 2320 Angus Street, Regina, Sask.

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=Pritchard, Henry Thomas=, who was born in London, England, February 26, 1852, came to Canada, locating in Ottawa in 1875, and started in business as an engraver. Three years later, in 1878, he formed a partnership with J. E. Andrews, under the firm name of Pritchard and Andrews. Being exceptionally clever engravers, their business so increased that in 1897 a joint stock company was formed, and is now established and known as “The Pritchard-Andrews Company of Ottawa, Limited,” with J. A. Seybold as President and Henry Thomas Pritchard as Secretary-Treasurer and Manager, with their head office at 264 Sparks Street, Ottawa. Mr. Pritchard is the son of William Pritchard, cabinet manufacturer, of Bishopgate Street, London, England, and Elizabeth Ann (Thompson) Pritchard, and received his education in a boarding school in London. Having served his time to engraving in England, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and, arriving in Ottawa, Ontario, has made that city his home ever since. In 1887, Mr. Pritchard married Margaret Ramsay Black, daughter of John Black, of Hamilton, Ontario. Four sons and four daughters have blessed the union—Walter, Elizabeth Ann, Harold, Ernest, John, Margaret, Emily and Edith. Mr. Pritchard is an Anglican in religion and a Unionist in politics. He resides at Eastview.

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=Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E.= (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), son of Hon. Joseph O. Arsenault, Senator, and Gertrude Arsenault, his wife. Born at Egmont Bay, P.E.I., on July 28, 1870. Educated at St. Dunstan’s College, Charlottetown, and St. Joseph’s University, Memramcook, N.B. Studied law with McLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, barristers, Charlottetown, and with the Hon. (now Sir) Chas. Russell, London, England. Called to the bar in 1899, and has successfully practised his profession at Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I. Was first elected to the Legislature of the province of P.E.I. in 1908. On the accession of Liberal-Conservative Government in 1911 appointed a member of the Government. Re-elected in 1912 and 1915. On elevation of the leader of the Government, Hon. J. A. Mathieson, to the Supreme Court Bench of the Province, was called on by the Lieutenant-Governor to form a Government, which he did, and became President-in-Council and Attorney-General. Re-elected in 1917. The subject of this sketch was married on November 5, 1907, to Bertha R., daughter of Captain Frank Gallant, of Tignish, P.E.I., and is the father of six children. He is a Roman Catholic in religion, and a member of the Conservation Commission of Canada.

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=Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, M.P.P.=, is Minister of Agriculture and Provincial Treasurer for the Province of Saskatchewan, and one of the youngest and ablest of the public men of the West. He was born at Croft, Leicestershire, England, on July 31, 1885, the son of Samuel and Katherine (Hall) Dunning. His father was a farmer, and he was educated in the public schools of the Motherland. In 1903, as a boy of seventeen, he settled in Saskatchewan, and engaged in farming at Beaverdale in that province, an industry which he has ever since conducted on a large scale. He is one of the most prominent of those who organized the movement in the West for the betterment of agricultural conditions, and, in 1910, became a Director of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Association. He was also its Vice-President from 1911 to 1914. In 1911, he organized the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, and acted as general manager of this remarkably successful enterprise from its foundation until 1916. From 1911 to 1916, he was a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Council of Agriculture, and, in 1918, served on the Canada Food Board organized in connection with the war as Director of Food Production. Earlier, in 1913, he was a member of the Royal Commission appointed by the Government of Saskatchewan to investigate the question of agricultural credits, and also that of grain markets in Europe. He has also been a frequent contributor to the press on such subjects, his vast fund of expert knowledge making him an especially welcome contributor. In 1916, he resigned his position as general manager of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevators to enter the Legislature of that Province. He was elected for the riding of Kinistino by acclamation. At the general elections of 1917, he was returned for Moose Jaw County. After his first election he was appointed Provincial Treasurer in the Martin administration, having been sworn in on October 20, 1916. Exactly one year later, he was also appointed Minister of Railways, and in addition on May 16, 1918, he became Minister of Telephones. On the rearrangement of portfolios, February 15, 1919, he retained his old portfolio of Provincial Treasurer, and became Minister of Agriculture as well, a step that was applauded by the whole farming community. He is a Liberal in politics and a Presbyterian in religion, and a member of the Assiniboia Club, Regina, and the Wascana Country Club. His favorite recreation is golf. On July 3, 1913, he married Ada, daughter of John Rowlatt (deceased) of Nassington, Northants, England, and has one son and one daughter. His home is at 2150 Retallack Street, Regina, Sask.

[Illustration: RT. HON. SIR W. T. WHITE, P.C., M.P., Ottawa]

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=Williams, the Right Rev. Lennox Waldron, Lord Bishop of Quebec, M.A. (Oxon.), D.D.=, is the only son of the late Right Rev. J. W. Williams, D.D., fourth Bishop of the same diocese. He was born at Lennoxville, while his father was headmaster of Bishop’s College School, on November 12, 1859. His mother’s maiden name was Miss Anna Maria Waldron. He received his earlier education at Bishop’s College School, from which institution he went to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he received his degree of B.A. in 1882, and his M.A. in 1887. In 1899 he received the degree of D.D. from Bishop’s College University. His first charge as a clergyman was that of curate in St. Matthew’s Church, of Quebec, while the Rev. Charles Hamilton (afterwards Bishop of Ottawa and Archbishop)—was its rector. A vacancy occurring in the rectorship of that charge, the Rev. Lennox Williams was selected to fill it. In 1899 he was promoted to be Dean of the Cathedral and Rector of Quebec. In 1890 he was unanimously elected Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario, but felt obliged to decline. On the death of Bishop Dunn, he was elected Lord Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec. As a native of the Province of Quebec, he has been identified with the religious life of Quebec and the Eastern Townships during his lifetime. During his ministry he has always taken an active interest in the schools and colleges of the diocese, having been for years a member of the corporation of Bishop’s College, Lennoxville, Chairman of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners of Quebec City, and a Director of the High School. While he was Dean of the Cathedral, he was chosen a delegate to the Pan-Anglican Congress held in London, England, in 1908; and, in 1910, he again took part in the Anglican Church Congress held at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1887 he married Miss Caroline Annie Rhodes, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel William Rhodes, at one time Minister of Agriculture for the Province of Quebec. The Bishop and Mrs. Williams had four children, viz., James William, who, after taking his degree at Oxford, joined the Canadian Army in the great war, and was killed in action at the battle of the Somme; Violet Mary; Gertrude, wife of Colonel R. O. Alexander, D.S.O.; Sydney Waldron, gentleman cadet at R.M.C., Kingston.

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