Part 20

=Bethune, the Rev. Charles Jas. Stewart, M.A., D.C.L.=, the distinguished subject of this sketch, was born at West Flamboro’, Ontario, on August 11, 1838. He is the third son of the Right Rev. Alexander Neil Bethune second Bishop of Toronto, and Jane Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Hon. James Crooks. The Bethune family traces its lineage very far back in Scottish and French historical records. The first of the name who left Normandy for the British Isles came to Scotland in the reign of Malcolm the Third, a contemporary of William the Conqueror, in the eleventh century. The first of the family to come to Canada was the Rev. John Bethune, a U.E. Loyalist from North Carolina, and chaplain to a Highland regiment, who settled with his comrades in the county of Glengarry, Ontario, towards the end of the 18th century. He was the father of the late Bishop of Toronto and Dean Bethune, of Montreal, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Young Bethune was educated at private schools at Cobourg and Upper Canada College, Toronto. After leaving the latter institution he entered Trinity College, Toronto, and graduated therefrom in 1859 with first-class classical honors and the B.A. degree. He took his M.A. in 1861, and received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from his Alma Mater in 1883, in recognition of his zealous and worthy services at Trinity College School. He was ordained deacon in 1861 and priest in 1862, by the late Bishop Strachan of Toronto. He was curate until 1866, with his father, then Rector of Cobourg, with the exception of a short period spent in England in 1863-64, when he was curate at Carlton, near Selby, in Yorkshire. In 1866 he was appointed to the charge of the Credit Mission in the County of Peel, Ont., where he was instrumental in building the churches at Dixie and Port Credit. In September, 1870, he was appointed Head Master of Trinity College School at Port Hope. From a very small beginning he raised up this school to be one of the most widely known and successful in the Dominion. He had a staff of eight assistant masters, about 140 pupils, and large and handsome buildings with extensive grounds. He resigned the headmastership in 1899, and removed to London, Ontario, where he remained for seven years. During the greater part of that period he was curator and librarian of the Entomological Society of Ontario. He assisted in forming the London Horticultural Society and was its president for two years. Dr. Bethune gave much of his attention to scientific pursuits and he is well known in the United States and Great Britain, as likewise in Canada, as an entomologist. He was one of the founders of the Entomological Society of Ontario and its Secretary-Treasurer for seven years. He was president of the same society from 1870 to 1875, and has continued since to be a member of its council. He was entomological editor of the “Canada Farmer” for nine years, and editor of the “Canadian Entomologist” from its inception in 1868 to 1873, and from 1887 to 1909, when he was elected editor emeritus. He has written a large number of papers on Practical and Scientific Entomology in these and other publications, and contributed repeatedly to the annual report on insects presented to the Legislature of Ontario. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science and has attended its meetings at various places in the United States, is a member of several Canadian scientific societies and a corresponding member of scientific societies in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, Davenport, Brooklyn, Halifax, and other places. He is also a member of the Corporation of the University of Trinity College. He was Honorary Clerical Secretary of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto from 1869 to 1871, and has been repeatedly elected a representative of the diocese at the meetings of the Provincial Synod in Montreal. He was a delegate from the diocese of Toronto to the general synod of the Church of England in Canada at Winnipeg in 1896, and was appointed clerical secretary of the Lower House in 1902, holding that position at the meetings in Montreal and Quebec and resigning at the Ottawa meeting in 1908; elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1892, and became President of Section 4 in the year 1900; was one of the original promoters of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto and filled the position of Warden for some years. On the first of June, 1906, he was appointed Professor of Entomology and Zoology at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, which position he still holds. He assisted in the formation of the American Association of Economic Entomologists and of the American Entomological Society; of the latter he is one of the original Fellows. He was elected President of the Entomological Society of Ontario for its Jubilee year, 1913. He is Honorary President of the Wellington Field Naturalists’ Club, of the Guelph Horticultural Society and of the Trinity College School Cricket Club. Since going to Guelph he has published bulletins on insects affecting fruit trees and vegetables of which several editions have been issued by the Department of Agriculture of Ontario. He has frequently visited England and travelled in the United States and Europe. Dr. Bethune has always been a member of the Church of England and associated with the “High Church” school of thought. He married on April 21, 1863, Alice, second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Forlong, K.H., of Toronto, late of Her Majesty’s 43rd Regiment of Light Infantry, and his wife, Sophia, daughter of the Hon. Henry John Boulton, of Holland House, Toronto. Mrs. Bethune died in July, 1898. Dr. Bethune has four children living. His eldest son, Arthur M. Bethune, is Manager of the Hamilton Branch of the Dominion Bank, and Reginald A. Bethune is an officer in the Civil Service at Kamloops, B.C. The two daughters are unmarried. An earnest and able worker for his church, a learned and deeply skilled votary in a wide and important branch of science, it has been given to few men whose names are written in this volume to accomplish so much and to accomplish it so well.

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=Kyte, George William= (St. Peters, Richmond County, Nova Scotia), son of John Kyte, native of Templemore, County of Tipperary, Ireland, and Elizabeth Robertson, English parentage, born July 10, 1864, at St. Peters. Educated at the public school of St. Peters, and at the University of St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, N.S., from which seat of learning he graduated. Studied law in the office of Colin F. McIsaac (for several years one of the Transcontinental Railway Commissioners, at Antigonish, N.S.), and was admitted to the bar Nov. 16, 1891. Married, July 5, 1893, to Tena, daughter of Valentine and Lydia Chisholm, of Heatherton, N.S. Appointed Clerk-Assistant of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, in Feb., 1892; re-appointed in 1895, 1898 and 1901; appointed Chief Clerk, Dec. 3, 1903. Resigned this appointment to become a candidate for the House of Commons for Richmond County at general election of 1908 and was elected; re-elected at general election in 1911. Created a King’s Counsel by the Government of Nova Scotia, April 16, 1908. Solicitor for the Municipality of Richmond County; school trustee for nine years, and is a member of the Board of School Commissioners for the County of Richmond. A Roman Catholic in religion and a Liberal in politics.

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=Clark, John Murray, M.A., LL.B., K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), born at St. Mary’s, Ont., July 6, 1860, of Scottish descent, his parents being James and Isabella Clark. Educated at St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute, Toronto University and Osgoode Hall. His career at the University was particularly brilliant. He won the prize in Logic awarded by the late Professor J. P. Young, the Blake Scholarship on Constitutional Law, Economics and Jurisprudence, the McMurrich Medal in Natural Science and Gold Medal in Mathematics and Physics, and the prize on Minority Representation, graduating with the degree of B.A. in 1882, M.A. 1884, LL.B. 1891, and being called to the Bar in 1886, with honours, and winning the Law Society’s Gold Medal, since which time he has practised in Toronto where he is recognized as one of the leaders of the Bar and is head of the firm of Clark, McPherson, Campbell & Jarvis. Has been retained as Counsel in a large number of cases of great magnitude and importance, such as the Quaker Case, Ontario Express Company, Fisheries Case, and the Ophir case, and has frequently pleaded before the Privy Council in England. Appointed a K.C. in 1889; in early life was Mathematical Master of St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute and for several years Examiner in Physics, Toronto University, of which he was appointed as Senator in 1892. Is also Vice-President Toronto University Alumni Association. Formerly President Mathematical and Physics Society and University College Literary and Scientific Society. Few men in Canada have exhibited more scholarly attainments than the subject of this sketch, whose versatility in Science, Literature, as well as original research has been remarkable, and of great benefit. Notwithstanding the high place which Mr. Clark occupies in the field of letters and the wide knowledge he has of science and literature, he is widely known on account of his great abilities as a lawyer which have placed him in the front rank of the legal profession in Canada. Many of his cases have been of first-class importance and some of them of great public interest. Among the first in which he won a signal victory was that of Dorland and Jones, the famous Quaker Case from Prince Edward County, Ontario. The recent decision of the House of Lords, giving the “Wee Frees” the property of the Free Church of Scotland recalls the Quaker Case here. Mr. Clark argued before the Supreme Court at Ottawa that the Church had the right to make changes in its Constitution, even though that Constitution itself did not specifically authorize it to do so. The view was adopted by the United Free Church lawyers in Edinburgh in the case arising from the union of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, and the Court of Session, the High Court of Justice sustained that view. The “Wee Free” (as the Free Church minority was commonly called), appealed to the House of Lords, and contrary to all expectation, won, and obtained possession of the vast property of the Church. The situation was so tense that a special Act of Parliament was passed to adjust conditions. In quite a number of constitutional cases reaching through the Canadian Courts to the Privy Council, Mr. Clark has figured, and invariably with success. The same is true regarding commercial cases and large mining cases in which a long and extended experience has given him such a mastery as few of his compeers possess. Quite recently the “Ophir” mining case, which he brought to a successful conclusion, through a tedious and tortuous course of litigation, ending in the Privy Council, has excited the attention of the legal profession and of the public, both because it decided the question of the Indian title so far as Ontario is concerned, and because a similar situation is becoming acute in British Columbia. Mr. Clark has made several notable speeches in England where he is regarded as an accomplished jurist, and few men are so well versed in the political and constitutional history of this Dominion or more fully seized of its great resources. The London “Times” and several other prominent English papers a few years ago referred in high praise to Mr. Clark’s speech on “Canada and the Navy” delivered before a notable gathering, including Lord Strathcona the late High Commissioner for Canada. Mr. Clark is one of the foremost mathematical authorities in Canada and his work has been commended by so high an authority as Lord Kelvin, while he is regarded both in this country and in England as an authority on Constitutional law. He has won distinction as an author, and has written several standard works and papers, among which may be mentioned “Law of Mines in Canada,” which was written in collaboration with the Hon. W. D. McPherson, Provincial Secretary of Ontario. “Company Law,” “The Ontario Mining Law,” “International Arbitration,” “Canada’s Future and the Empire,” “History of the Theory of Energy,” and “The Functions of a great University.” Has lectured on the “Value of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,” “Canada and the Navy,” etc. The work on Mining Law referred to is recognized as an authority on the subject dealt with, and has been highly praised by the Harvard Law Review of the Law Magazine of England as well as by the Canadian Press. The “Mining Journal” stated that “the book had the impress of clear and legal learning,” and the work has also been described as a monument of research, care and industry. Recently Mr. Clark has been elected President of the Royal Canadian Institute, founded by Sir John Lefroy (whose grandson, Lieut. Lefroy, gallantly fell on Vimy Ridge). In referring to the new President’s appointment “The Mail and Empire” said: “Mr. Clark well represents the best that we have in character, intellect, scholarship and public spirit. A distinguished graduate of Toronto University, the new President, far from leaving the avenues of learning, as some do when they graduate, has ever increased his stores, and has successfully striven not only to broaden and deepen his knowledge, but to devote it to the service of his fellow-men, as witness Mr. Clark’s strong and convincing advocacy of the Canadian Government availing itself of the great scientific attainments and progressive scholarship of men like Professors Macallum and McLennan. For many years one of the foremost advocates in Canada of that great constitutional change in Imperial relations which is to-day being forged on the anvil of war, Mr. Clark has been a powerful and sagacious leader in that movement on this side of the water. In the prosecution of that enterprise he has deservedly won the regard and friendship of some of the leading scholars and statesmen of our Empire.” The “Globe,” in the course of a favorable review, said that his Presidential Address on “The Reign of Law,” “will appeal to thoughtful readers as a scholarly contribution to a subject which derives fresh interest from the war.” Mr. Clark has given considerable study to the question of our gold supply which has proved a potent factor in the financing of the great war, and will be even a more important factor in the reconstruction period after the war according to the viewpoint of Mr. Clark, who takes the position that the increase in the production of gold be encouraged in every practical way. Politically, Mr. Clark has always been a member of the Liberal Party, and was formerly President of the Young Men’s Liberal Club of Toronto, but, in the Federal general elections of 1917 he supported the Union Government. He favors Canada remaining an integral portion of the British Empire, the utmost practicable extension of the principle of free trade, and the development of a vigorous Canadian National Sentiment. Married first Greta Helen Gordon, daughter of Rev. D. Gordon, and sister of “Ralph Connor,” 1890 (deceased 1894); second, Annie Macleod Anderson, daughter of late W. N. Anderson, Toronto, 1899 (deceased, 1910); third, Caroline Chaplin, daughter of late William Chaplin, St. Catharines; has three daughters, i.e., Mary Gordon (now Mrs. W. A. Riddell), Margaret Macleod, and Katie H. Burn. Is a member of the following clubs: Toronto, Ontario, British Empire (London), Engineers’ Club (Toronto), and belongs to A.F. & A.M. (Scottish Rite, Zetland). A Presbyterian in religion. Recreation, golf.

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=Flint, Thomas Barnard, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L.=, Ottawa, Ont., ex-clerk of the House of Commons, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, April 28, 1847, and was educated at Yarmouth and Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick. He received his B.A. in 1867; his M.A. in 1872; also LL.B. of Harvard University, 1871. He was called to the Bar in 1872; was appointed a commissioner of the Supreme and County Courts in 1873; was Sheriff of Yarmouth County from 1883 to 1887, and Assistant Clerk of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1887 to 1891. In 1891 he was elected to the House of Commons and was re-elected at the elections of 1896 and 1900. He was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, Nov. 11, 1902, and retired from that position at the beginning of session of 1918, owing to failing eyesight. In 1903 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law. He edited the 3rd and 4th editions of Bourinot Parliamentary Procedure. In 1874 he was married to Mary Ella Dane, a daughter of the late Thomas B. Dane, who for many years was an influential citizen of Yarmouth. Personally, Dr. Flint, an honorable man, with high ideals of the amenities of public life, liberally educated, and endowed with cultivated taste, entirely without prejudice of race or religion, well posted on public affairs, an efficient, unassuming, practical man, commanded the respect of Liberals and Conservatives alike, both as a member of the House of Commons and as clerk. Dr. Flint at one time was Vice-President of the Dominion Prohibition Alliance, and was one of the founders, and for many years vice-president of the Yarmouth Building and Loan Society, a most successful local business. After he was admitted to the Bar he rapidly became one of its leaders in his district. As a member of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was Chairman of Standing Orders from 1898 to 1902. During the Session of 1894-5 he moved resolutions in the House of Commons in favor of prohibition. In 1907 he was elected President of the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society. As a speaker, Dr. Flint proved to be a leading debater, forceful and pleasing in manner, ever giving evidence as an authority on every question which he took up. He is of New England ancestry, and the son of the late John Flint, ship owner, and Anne (Barnard) Flint. He is an Anglican in religion and a Liberal in politics. From 1897 to 1899 he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons, of Nova Scotia. Upon his retirement from the Clerkship of the House of Commons Dr. Flint was by resolution of the House made an honorary official of the House and granted an annuity in recognition of his public services. He now resides in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

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=Chrysler, Francis Henry, K.C.= (Ottawa), is a son of the late Gordon Harvey Chrysler and Jane Chrysler, daughter of Captain James Mackenzie, R.N., who was on service on Lake Ontario under Commodore James Yee, R.N., during the war of 1812. He is a grandson of Colonel John Chrysler, of Chrysler’s Farm, for sixteen years member for Dundas in the Parliament of U.C. He was born in Kingston, Ont., educated at Bath Academy and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married in 1876 to Margaret Isabella, daughter of Donald A. Grant, of Ottawa. He became a barrister in 1872; K.C., 1890; has practised continuously in Ottawa and is one of the leaders of the Bar of Canada, and one of the life Benchers of the Law Society for the Province of Ontario. He is Counsel for many railways and other corporations. Has declined appointment to the Canadian Bench. He acted as Counsel for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in their action against the Dominion Government to recover bounties for the manufacture of liquid pig iron; for the Government of Canada in drafting and settling the contracts and legislation for the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway; for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company in drafting and settling their mortgages upon which securities were issued for the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert; for all the railway companies of Canada in framing and settling The Railway Act of 1903, under which the Railway Commission was appointed; for various railway companies, principally the Canadian Pacific Railway, in the general enquiry before the Railway Commission into railway rates in Canada; for the Dominion Express Company in the general enquiry into express tolls and contracts; for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company upon the general enquiry into telegraph tolls and contracts; for the Special Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into the question of telephone rates and systems, and for the Railway Companies of Canada as Counsel before the general committee appointed by the House of Commons in the Session of 1917, to revise and consolidate the Railway Act and Amending Acts. He has had an extensive experience and practice as a Parliamentary Counsel, before the Railway Commission and in the Supreme Court. His clubs are: The Rideau, Country and Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa; Metis Golf Club, Little Metis, Que. His address is 87 Catharine Street, Ottawa. Mr. Chrysler has four children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son, Geoffrey Gordon, was for some years in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, retiring in 1912, with the rank of Captain. He enlisted for service in the war with Germany, going with the first contingent as a Captain in the Second Battalion of Infantry, of which he is now a Major. He has been three times severely wounded and has received the Military Cross for conspicuous valor. The younger son, Philip Harvey, qualified as a Lieutenant of Artillery and served in France in the 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column from 1915 until October, 1917, when he was discharged as being physically unfit for further service. Mr. Chrysler’s elder daughter, Margaret Gordon, Mrs. Frederick H. Emra, is married to a civil engineer, who is now a Captain, first in the Second Pioneers and afterwards in the Engineers, and has been wounded in France. He is now doing engineering work for the Royal Navy. His younger daughter, Constance Harvey, is married to Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, LL.D., F.R.S., formerly Professor of Biology in McGill University and now Professor of Biology in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London, England, where Professor and Mrs. MacBride with two young sons reside. Mr. Chrysler is by temperament a student and has never occupied any public office; a prominent member of St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, of which congregation he is an officer. A lover of music, having been for many years an active member and President of the Orchestral Society; a keen golfer, golf being his principal recreation. Although for many years a leading member of the Liberal Party, he is at present a strong advocate of the policy of carrying on the war by means of a united Canadian party.

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