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resources, being instrumental in bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars for the advancement of mining interests in the districts of Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, West Shining Tree and Fort Matachewan. The firm of F. C. Sutherland & Co. is one of the largest of its kind in Canada, besides its large and finely appointed head office, having branch offices in Montreal, Boston, Springfield, Buffalo, Detroit and New York. He has surrounded himself with a staff of the most capable mining experts, and his sound judgment, based on first-hand information has proven of great value to his large clientele of investors. Though his time is constantly in demand by his clients and the investing public as well as in directing both internal and external affairs of his extensive interests he is invariably genial and unruffled, having the happy faculty of being able to divert his attention rapidly from one subject to another yet keeping closely in touch with each till disposed of. He is a member of The Board of Trade, the Lambton Golf Club, a Protestant, a Unionist in politics and the possessor of an unusually pleasing personality.

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=Taylor, Lt.-Col. Hon. George= (Gananoque), the second son of the late William Taylor and his wife Ann Graham, both of the north of Ireland. Was born at Lansdowne, County Leeds, Ontario, March 31, 1840, and has been for years one of the most popular figures in the public life of this Dominion. Educated in the Public Schools of Lansdowne, the Hon. Mr. Taylor began life in the mercantile business as a clerk in a country general store at the age of eleven years, where he worked for £1 a month, and continued with the same firm as partner over twenty-five years. On retiring from the mercantile business above mentioned, the Hon. Mr. Taylor re-organized the Ontario Wheel Company, to manufacture carriage wheels, and has been President of the Company for thirty years. He has been Reeve of Gananoque for seven years, and Warden of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, of which he was County Auditor, 1881. Was first elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative candidate for the County of Leeds in the general elections of 1882, and was re-elected at every general election held since up to 1911 when he resigned his seat to create a vacancy for Sir Thomas White, who had been appointed Minister of Finance in the Borden Cabinet. During his long parliamentary career Hon. Mr. Taylor was chief Whip of the Conservative party for twenty-five years under Sir John A. MacDonald, Sir John Abbott, Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Robert Borden. Shortly after his retirement from the House of Commons, on November 17, 1911, the subject of this sketch was summoned to the Senate, and since his appointment to the Upper Chamber has taken an active part in its deliberations. On retiring from the House of Commons, he received a handsome testimonial of esteem from his colleagues. Hon. Mr. Taylor, during his career in public life, has always received the good will of all classes of citizens. He is the soul of good humor, broadminded, generous and a liberal gentleman, and has been called “The John Hampden” of this Dominion. He is the Honorary Colonel of the 156th Battalion of Leeds and Grenville and President of the Peace River Land Company and a member of the following societies: Orange, Masonic, Oddfellows, United Workmen, Royal Arcanum and Foresters. Senator Taylor was married on September 10, 1863, to Margaret Ann Latimer, daughter of James and Ellen Latimer and ward of Major James Kirker of Gananoque. They celebrated their golden wedding Sept. 10, 1913. Mrs. Taylor died Mar. 12, 1917. Mr. Taylor afterwards married Lilian Coleman, daughter of the late Mr. Anson Clark Coleman and his wife Hannah Witton, of Delta, both Canadians of English descent.

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=Richardson, John= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Scarboro Township, County of York, Ontario, in 1843, on the farm of his father, the late Ezekiel Richardson. He received his education at the Public School, Scarboro Village, at the Grammar School, Markham Village, and at Victoria College, Cobourg. After completing his education he returned to his old home and engaged in the business of farming until 1894. Early in life he took an active interest in public affairs in his native township. In 1875 he was induced to accept nomination and was a successful candidate for a seat in the Township Council and was re-elected for nineteen years consecutively, three years as Councilman, two years as Deputy Reeve and fourteen years as Reeve. In 1885 he was elected Warden of the County of York, the highest municipal position in the County. The City of Toronto and the County of York are united for judicial purposes. Mr. Richardson was for many years Chairman of the Legislation Committee and as such had much to do with framing legislation beneficial to the Metropolitan City and County. In December, 1894, he retired from the Reeveship of Scarboro, he having been elected by the constituency of East York as their representative in the Ontario Legislature, which position he held for ten years, being re-elected in 1892 and 1902. He was a Liberal in politics and was a supporter of the administrations of Sir Oliver Mowat, Hon. A. S. Hardy and Sir George W. Ross. In 1902 he lost his health, the strenuous life of a politician was too severe for him. In 1904 he was compelled to forego his political ambitions and withdraw from political life. In December of that year Sir George W. Ross, then Premier of Ontario, appointed him to the position of Clerk of the County Court of the County of York, which position he held until his death. Mr. Richardson’s father emigrated from the North of Ireland in 1824, and settled in Scarboro. In 1831 he married Miss Mary Hunter, an English girl. Their descendants being five sons and four daughters. James and Ezekiel, who were ordained Methodist Ministers, and Joseph and Samuel, who graduated in medicine, now deceased. Three sisters survive—Mrs. A. Barber, Bowmanville; Mrs. E. Draper and Mrs. H. Aylard, of Toronto. He was a Director of the York Fire Insurance Co., a member of the Acacia Lodge A.F. & A.M., and a Methodist in religion. He was a philanthropist, in a quiet way, many owing their success in life to his generosity. By his honest and straightforward actions in both his political and private life, he won the confidence and respect of the community at large. Mr. Richardson died at Toronto, in September, 1914, after a very active career.

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=Doughty, Arthur George, M.A., C.M.G., Litt.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.R.C.I.=, Archivist for the Dominion of Canada, is perhaps the greatest living authority on Canadian history, and a scholar of international repute. He was born at Maidenhead, England, on March 22, 1860, the son of William John Doughty. He was educated at the public schools, Maidenhead, Lord Eldon College, London, New Inn Hall, Oxford University, and Dickenson College, Carlisle, when he was awarded the M.A. degree in 1890. Ten years later he became Docteur de Lettres of Laval University, Montreal, and in 1912 received the Honorary Degree of LL.D. at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont. As a young man Dr. Doughty contemplated entering the Church, and was engaged in religious work at All Hallows Mission, Southwark, London, and in other institutions. Circumstances, however, altered this intention and in the nineties he came to Canada and was engaged for a time in commercial pursuits at Montreal, utilizing his leisure for literary work. In 1897 he was appointed Private Secretary to the Minister of Public Works at Quebec, and in 1899-1901 served in a similar capacity with the Provincial Treasurer of Quebec. In the latter year he was appointed joint librarian of the Quebec Legislature, and on May 16, 1904, became Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Records for Canada, with headquarters in the Archives Building, Ottawa. His indefatigable labors in that office have raised it to very large importance. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the Canadian Historical Manuscripts Commission, and in 1908 a member of the literary committee of the Quebec Battlefields Commission. In 1909 he became a member of the Dominion Geographic Board. One of the greatest historical services he has been able to render Canada was at the conclusion of the great war in 1918 when he went to Great Britain and France and secured a magnificent collection of war trophies as the permanent possession of Canada, to be apportioned among various Canadian cities. Dr. Doughty early acquired rare skill as an illuminator on vellum and decorated the book presented to the present King and Queen on their visit to Quebec in 1901. He is also an expert in shorthand, and has published an edition of Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” in that script. At the same time he has been prolific in many forms of literary effort, as the following list of publications shows: “The Life and Works of Lord Tennyson,” 1893; “Rose Leaves,” 1894; “The Song Story of Francesco and Beatrice,” 1896; “Nugæ Canoræ,” 1897; “The Site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham,” 1918; “The Siege of Quebec,” in six volumes, 1901-2 (written in collaboration with George W. Parmalee); “The Struggle for Supremacy,” 1905; “Documents relating to the Constitutional History of Canada” (with Prof. Adam Shortt), 1907; “The Cradle of New France,” 1908; “Index and Dictionary of Canadian History” (with L. J. Burpee), 1911; joint editor of “Canada and Its Provinces,” in twenty-two volumes; joint editor of “Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada from 1791 to 1818,” published 1914; Editor of General Knox’s “Journal of Campaigns in North America,” published in three volumes by the Champlain Society, 1914; “The Acadian Exiles,” 1915; “A Daughter of New France,” 1915. Dr. Doughty has also contributed to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Encyclopedia Americana, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and to many magazines and historical journals. His lighter efforts have included the libretto of a comic opera “Bonnie Prince Charlie.” He is a member of the Canadian Society of Authors, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, and a member of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. In 1905 he was honored with the decoration of C.M.G. He married, first, Bertha Van Kehrweider, in June, 1886, who died January, 1910; secondly, Kathleen Rathbun Browne, daughter of George A. Browne, Montreal, in June, 1911. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and is a member of the Rideau Club, and the Ottawa Golf Club. He resides at 490 Wilbrod St., Ottawa.

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=McFall, Robert James, B.A., A.M., Ph.D.=, of Ottawa, Ont., is one of the best known economists and statisticians of Canada. He was born at Somerset, Nova Scotia, on January 7, 1887, the son of Rev. Thomas McFall, a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman, and his wife, Anna Lyons. His education was remarkably complete. After studying at the public schools of Nova Scotia he went to Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Penna., graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1912. This was followed by post-graduate courses at Glasgow University, Scotland, and Columbia University, New York City. He took a scholarship at the latter institution in 1913, and in 1914 captured the Garth Fellowship in Political Economy—a much-coveted honor. He received the degree of A.M. in 1914 and Ph.D. in 1916. For two years, 1915-17, he had charge of the work in Transportation and Commerce in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota, and in 1917 returned to Canada to become Chief of the Internal Trade Division, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, at Ottawa. In August of that year he also became statistician of the Canada Food Board, an office he held until February, 1919. He served also as Cost of Living Commissioner from May, 1918, to August, 1919, when the work of this office was merged in that of the Board of Commerce. During his tenure of office as Cost of Living Commissioner Dr. McFall proved most efficient and won high encomiums for his fearless performance of his duties. Among his publications is a valuable treatise on the transportation question “Railway Monopoly and Rate Regulation,” published in 1916 by Longmans, Green & Company. In addition to various official reports he has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles on the subject of transportation and food supplies, for American and Canadian publications. He is a member of the American Economic Association and of the Canadian Club, Ottawa. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics, independent. On September 29, 1917, he married Marjorie, daughter of Rev. E. S. Carr, D.D., Peoria, Ill., and has one daughter, Alice, born November 6, 1918. His residence is at 353 Frank St., Ottawa.

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=Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., C.M.G.=, Deputy Minister of the Federal Department of Public Health, Ottawa, is an authority on the subject of public sanitation and the prevention of disease. He was born at Toronto on July 25, 1867, the son of John F. Amyot, a railroad man, and his wife, Sophie Féré. He was educated at the separate schools, St. Thomas, Ont., Assumption College, Sandwich, Ont. and at the University of Toronto, from which he graduated with the degree of M.B. in 1891. He was immediately appointed a house surgeon of Toronto General Hospital, serving for one year; and from 1892 to 1900 was Demonstrator in Pathology on the University of Toronto Medical Faculty. From 1894 to 1898 he was Assistant Surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, and from 1898 to 1900, Surgeon. Among other professional offices he filled were those of Lecturer in Comparative Physiology at the Ontario Veterinary College, 1898-1908; Director of the Laboratory of the Provincial Board of Health, Ontario, 1900-1918; Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto, 1900-09, and Professor of Hygiene at the same institution, 1909-1918. A year before the outbreak of the great war he had become identified with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and held the commission of D.A.D.M.S. (Sanitation) for the 2nd Canadian Divisional Area, from 1913 to 1915. In that capacity he had much to do with preserving the health of large bodies of troops who were placed in training in that area after the outbreak of the war in 1914. In the spring of 1915 he went to England on staff of No. 4 Can. Gen. Hospital, was made officer in charge of Sanitation, 2nd Canadian Division whilst in England, and in the latter part of that year was transferred to France as O.C. of the Sanitary Section of the 1st Canadian Division. In 1916 he became Chief Adviser in Sanitation with the Canadian Army Corps in France, and later in the same year was seconded to the Imperial forces as D.A.D.M.S. (Sanitation) with the 2nd British Army in France. From 1916 to 1918 he was also Consultant in Sanitation with the Canadian Overseas Forces, England. The low percentage of deaths from communicable disease in the British and Canadian armies during the war, was regarded as miraculous when compared with the statistics of all past wars, and to this desirable condition, which greatly aided in the victory, Lieut.-Col. Amyot is considered as having largely contributed. He was twice mentioned in despatches for service under fire while in France in 1916, and three times won similar recognition for his zeal in combatting disease among the troops in England. In recognition of his abilities he was personally decorated with the C.M.G. by His Majesty. In July, 1919, he was appointed by the administration of Sir Robert Borden, Deputy Minister of the newly created Department of Public Health, and entrusted with the work of organizing it on modern lines. Col. Amyot’s writings include various papers on questions of public health published in Canada and the United States. He has also collaborated on Technical commissions in connection with the United States and Canadian Public Health Associations, and the Ontario and Canadian Medical Associations. He is also a co-director of the International Waterways Commission, and in that capacity has conducted investigations on the pollution of the waters of the Great Lakes. He is a Roman Catholic in religion and a member of the Toronto Board of Trade, the University and Canadian Clubs, Toronto, and the Faculty Union of Toronto University. On May 21, 1895, he married Mary J. Keller, daughter of Francis and Mary (Stuart) Keller, Whitby, Ont., and has five sons and two daughters, John Francis, Gregory Féré, William Keller, Joseph, Mary, Francis and Sophie. His residence is at Slater St., Ottawa.

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=Owens, Edward W. J., K.C., M.P.P.= for South-East Toronto, has represented that constituency for two parliaments, having been re-elected by a handsome majority at the general elections in 1914. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and received his early education there, in Manchester, England, and in the Forrest City. He became a student-at-law in the office of Cronyn and Greenlees, of London, and shortly after passing the bar removed to Toronto, where he joined the firm of Leys, Reid and Owens, the head of the firm being the late John Leys, Q.C., M.P.P. He later practised for a number of years by himself, subsequently forming the firm of Owens, Proudfoot, and Cooke, with offices at 32-34 Adelaide Street East. He is now head of the firm of Owens and Goodman at the above address, and enjoys an extensive and constantly growing practice. His manner is extremely affable, never ruffled, and constantly

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Conservative interest, and for years was President of the Central Conservative Association before being elected member of the Legislature. He can speak well and to the point when occasion demands, but has earned the reputation of taking up less time on the floor of the house than any other member of equal ability. He is unmarried, but has none of the crotchety characteristics sometimes attributed to the bachelor of middle age.

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=Hook, Thomas, M.P.P.= for South-East Toronto was born in England, and when a very small boy came to Canada with his parents about the time of Confederation. The family settled in London, Ont., where his father engaged in business as a contractor. The firm of Hook and Toll built the Military School in London as well as other buildings well known in that city and vicinity. On leaving school, the subject of this sketch spent three years in the office of E. Jones Parke, Q.C., and then joined the staff of the Dominion Savings and Investment Society. He resigned his position in this company some twenty years ago, and removed to Toronto, where he became engaged in the real estate business, which he still conducts at 79 Victoria Street. At an early age he took great interest in politics, and on his arrival in Toronto soon became a well known and

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different offices in the local Conservative organizations, and in 1907 he was elected President of Ward 3 Conservative Association, holding that position for the unprecedented period of seven years, till elected to his present position in 1914 for seat “B” in South-East Toronto by a large majority. During the war he was untiring in his recruiting efforts. He is a fluent and forceful speaker, with marked executive ability, a genial manner, and sociable disposition. Though a straight party man, he is independent and outspoken, and may be expected to leave the impress of his personality on the Legislature in the not distant future. The family—including a son recently returned from service overseas—reside at No. 1 Rathnally Ave.

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