Part 30
=Ingram, George C., B.A.=, 1167 2nd Ave. N.W., Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, one of the well known business men of that province, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on October 16, 1867, the son of James and Elizabeth (Leith) Ingram. When nine months old his parents emigrated to Tipton, Iowa, where the subject of this sketch spent twenty years on a farm. He was educated in the local schools of Tipton and later took a course at the Northern Indiana Normal School, Valparaiso, Indiana, taking the degree of B.A. In 1890 he removed to Minnesota, where he practised as a surveyor for two years, after which he founded the Ingram Lumber Co., of Sank Centre, Minn., continuing in business there until 1910. In the latter year he moved to Saskatoon, Sask., as special representative of the Western Retail Lumbermen’s Association, a post he held until 1912, when he became General Manager, Director and Secretary of Security Lumber Company, Limited, of Moose Jaw, a position he still holds. While a resident of the United States he was President (1905-6) of the Northwestern Lumbermen’s Association, Minneapolis. He has served as an Alderman and is a Liberal in politics. His recreation is golf and he belongs to the Prairie Club, Moose Jaw, and to the A.F. & A.M. (Shriner). On Sept. 22, 1896, he married Lulu, daughter of the late David Wilcox, and has three children, Howard C., Hildred and George L. Ingram.
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=Shepherd, Simpson James=, 614 11th Street South, Lethbridge, Alberta Barrister-at-law, is a native of Uttoxeter, Lambton County, Ont., where he was born February 6, 1877, the son of James and Mary (Dowler) Shepherd. His father was a farmer and he was educated at Forest High School, and later at McGill University. He had a brilliant career in the latter institution and graduated in 1906 with the degree of B.C.L., capturing a Macdonald travelling scholarship in law. After graduation he was thus enabled to spend one year in France, and later decided to settle in the West, going to Lethbridge in 1908, when he was called to the Alberta Bar and formed a partnership with Mr. W. C. Simmons. The latter was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the province in 1910, and Mr. Shepherd then formed a partnership with Mr. Allen E. Dunlop, previously of the Nova Scotia Bar. Later Mr. George A. Rice joined the firm, which is now known as Shepherd, Dunlop and Rice. He is a member of the Alberta Returned Soldiers Commission, and of the Chinook and Lethbridge Golf Clubs, as well as the Masonic Order. His recreations are golf, curling and shooting. He is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. On September 7, 1908, he married Ethel M. S. Dixon, daughter of Mr. John Dixon, merchant of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, and has three daughters, Marjorie C., Nancy D., and Joan Douglas by name.
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=Edwards, Hon. William Cameron= (Rockland, Ont.), was born in Clarence, May 7, 1844, and is a son of the late William Edwards, a native of Portsmouth, Eng., who came to Canada about the year 1820, and settled in the Township of Clarence, County of Russell, Ont., and his wife Ann Cameron, a native of Fort William, Scotland. He was educated at the Ottawa Grammar School. Upon the completion of his education he became an extensive lumber manufacturer, and his business has grown to one of the largest in Canada. He is known as a successful stock raiser, and takes a keen interest in agriculture generally, having been President of the Russell Agricultural Society for many years. He established the lumber firm of W. C. Edwards & Co., in 1868; is a director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce; a director of The Toronto General Trusts Corporation, Toronto, and many other Toronto corporations and companies. After making a success of his own business interests, he was induced to enter politics by many of his closest friends, and became the Liberal Candidate for the House of Commons for Russell at the general election of 1882, and was defeated, but was later elected at the general elections of 1891, 1896 and 1900, and became one of the foremost members in Parliament, and a very close friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the then Premier of Canada. In January, 1885, he married Catherine M., eldest daughter of the late William Wilson, of Cumberland, Ont., and since their marriage they have drawn many warm personal friends to them both at Ottawa and their home town, Rockland. At the outbreak of the War in 1914, between Germany and her Allies, and the British-French-Russian Allies, Mr. Edwards displayed much generosity, and gave freely both of his time and money in the interest of the Motherland, and continued his services until the close of the War. On March 17, 1903, he was summoned to the Senate, as a reward for the many sacrifices made by him during his political and business life, and has filled the position with marked ability.
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=Rust, C. H., C.E.= (Victoria, B.C.), was born in Essex, England, on Christmas Day, 1852; he received a thorough elementary and technical education, both in the Mother Country and in Canada. He entered the service of the City of Toronto, Ont., as rodman in 1877, and continued in that capacity until 1881, when he was promoted to the position of assistant engineer, and in 1883 was made assistant engineer in charge of sewers. Mr. Rust held this position until 1891, and during his incumbency in this office superintended the construction of 150 miles of sewer. From 1887 until 1891 he was principal assistant engineer. In 1892 Mr. Rust was made acting chief engineer, and in July, 1898, he was appointed to the office of Chief Engineer of the city, and filled that office to the general satisfaction not only of the city, but also of the citizens. His work entailed much labor. He had charge of sewers, roadways, sidewalks, bridges and waterworks, besides which all routes of street cars and style of cars used had to be approved by him. In 1887 Mr. Rust was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Engineers, and in 1901 he became one of its presidents. In 1899 he was elected a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and was elected one of the Vice-Presidents in 1913, and he is very prominent in his profession. In the beginning of 1912 Mr. Rust decided to resign the office of City Engineer to accept a similar position in the city of Victoria, B.C., and upon leaving Toronto he was presented with testimonials from all sections of the community showing the high esteem and appreciation in which he was held as a public servant and citizen.
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=Barry, Walter H.= (Montreal, Que.), Merchant, is the son of George Barry and Margaret Bond, and relative of Arthur Barry and John A. Barry; was born in Toronto, June 14, 1870, and educated at the High School. Married Isabel L. Logie, daughter of Robert Logie, a merchant of New York, and has one son, Gerald A. Barry, now Lieut. Gerald A. Barry. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and member of the Royal Victoria and Montreal Clubs, attends the English Church. His recreations are golf, fishing and curling.
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=Adamson, Alan Joseph=, is the son of John Evans Adamson, of “Kill House,” Clifton, County of Galway, Ireland, and Harriette Bell, his wife, who was a daughter of the Rev. James Bell, of Baragher, Queen’s County, Ireland. He was born at Kill House, Clifton, on August 1, 1857, and educated at the High School in Dublin. His father was a landed gentleman in Ireland and the proprietor of the Kill estate, and the great-grandson of the fifth earl of Carberry. Mr. Adamson married in the year 1882, Julia, daughter of Robert Turriff, of Quebec, and a sister of J. G. Turriff, M.P. (Assiniboia), and is the father of the following children; John Evans and Christopher Arthur, Barristers, Winnipeg, the latter of whom was elected as Rhodes Scholar for the Province of Saskatchewan, in 1907; Allan Bell, Inspector, Winnipeg; James Douglas, Captain C.A.M.C.; Herbert, Lieut. 27th Winnipeg Battalion; Lily, wife of Capt. A. S. Bell, Engineer; Harriette, Nurse, Winnipeg General Hospital, and Gilbert, St. John’s College, Winnipeg. He is a member of the Manitoba Club, the Canadian Automobile Club, and Colonial Institute, London, England. He is a member of the Church of England, and the Masonic Order, and is a Liberal in politics; represented the constituency of Humboldt, in the House of Commons 1904-1908. The subject of this sketch was a director of the Northern Bank and of the Saskatchewan Valley & Manitoba Land Company. He went originally to Winnipeg and embarked in the grain trade in 1883; was Secretary-Treasurer of the Manitoba Grand Company in 1896; removed to Rosthern in 1899; was largely instrumental in attracting American capital and settlers to that region, and while there organized Canadian Territories Corporation, of which he was President and Manager. This body holds the record for the value of its transactions among all the corporations existing in the west. Is an Anglican in religion and resides at 160 Mayfair Avenue, Winnipeg, and has also a residence at “Carberry Hill” Limona, Florida. His principal recreation is golf.
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=Diver, Frederick= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in London, Eng., and came to this country with his parents when a youth. Mr. Diver learned the business of electrotyping and stereotyping, engraving, designing and “The Art Preservative of All Arts,” namely, printing. Some years ago, Mr. Diver established the Central Press Agency, Limited, of which he is the President. The head offices of the Company are situated at 110-16 York St., Toronto, and the Company has large business connections throughout the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Diver owes his success to his untiring industry, complete knowledge of the details of the various branches of the work of his Company, and to his practical business ability. His wife died a few years ago leaving her surviving children: Lt. F. G. Diver, who was since killed in action at the Battle of the Somme on Oct. 21, 1917; Ethel May, now wife of Halsey Wells of Detroit, U.S.A., and Victor Diver, Vice-President of the Central Press Agency, Ltd. Mr. Diver is a member of the National, Rosedale and Mississauga Clubs; of the Masonic Order, and also of the Church of England.
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=Bellemare, Adelard= (St. Paulin, Que.), was born March 2, 1871, at St. Paulin, County of Maskinonge, P.Q., son of François Bellemare and Delima Julien, both French-Canadians. His grandfather was a teacher in 1845. Was educated at Three Rivers Seminary. Was formerly professor for three years at the College de Joliette and St. Laurent. Married, Feb. 2, 1898, to Parmelia, daughter of Edmond Bourgeois of Joliet, and is the father of six children: Hector, Lucien, Maria, Albert, Jeanne and Cecile. Was lecturer for the C. N. d’Economie. Elected to the House of Commons at the general elections in 1911, as an Independent Conservative, to represent the constituency of Maskinonge. In religion Mr. Bellemare is a Roman Catholic.
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=Birkett, Thomas=, was born in Bytown (now Ottawa), February 1, 1844. He is the son of Miles and Elizabeth (Wren) Birkett, who came to Canada from Cumberland, England, in 1838, and who saw that he received a good education at the Public and Grammar Schools, and that he was thoroughly prepared for commercial business life. That their efforts were not in vain was shown at an early date, in the rapid and successful progress that greeted his efforts and ventures. But, and in addition, they had the good fortune to see their son make his mark in School, Municipal, Provincial and Dominion and other public affairs and to be elected to many public offices of trust where he distinguished himself in various ways and established an enviable record for progressive, reliable and lasting service. In every public office, to which he was elected he devoted the attention and care that was made so evident and pronounced in his private business with the result that he not only made good, but cemented and enlarged the confidence and esteem of those who had selected him as their representative. Whether as director or trustee of a public institution, as member of the city council, mayor of the city, or as member of Parliament, his conduct was the same and the result the same, viz., conscientious devotion to duty attended by successful results. Many a time it has been proclaimed, even by those who were politically opposed to him, that having rendered to the State the continuous and valuable public services that he did, and in a manner so effective, that he would long ago have been called to the Canadian Senate, and great has been the surprise that he has not been. But being still robust in health, mentally and physically, and his activities being as marked as they were in former years, it may not be out of place to say that a seat in the Senate will be honored by his presence at an early date. Having served as an apprentice in the hardware trade to Mr. Isaac, in 1866, Mr. Birkett opened a retail hardware store on Rideau Street, prospered, and soon had to remove to larger premises. For thirty years he kept in the retail business, which year by year assumed larger proportions and supplied goods to the many prosperous and wealthy manufacturing towns and villages and thriving agricultural districts in the Ottawa Valley. Finding the demand for his goods still on the increase in 1896 he converted his private firm into a joint stock company, of which he became president, his son Thomas M. Birkett, vice-president, and other members of the family shareholders, and launched into the wholesale business under the title of Thomas Birkett & Son Company, Limited, of Ottawa. To-day this wholesale firm is one of the most extensive, if not actually the largest hardware house in Eastern Ontario and is known from one end of Canada to the other. The building forms one of the best business blocks in Ottawa and is most advantageously situated, the warehouse doors opening direct on the wharves of the Rideau Canal basin. Mr. Birkett served as School Trustee from 1869 to 1873; as Alderman, from 1873 to 1878; as Mayor, during 1891 and 1892. Since 1900 he has been Trustee, Ottawa Collegiate Institute. In 1893 he declined nomination to the House of Commons, but in 1900 he was elected by a large majority. He ran in 1904 and 1908 and was defeated. Mr. Birkett is President, Thos. Birkett, Son & Co., Ltd., Wholesale Hardware Merchants, Canal St., Ottawa; Director, Pritchard-Andrews Engraving Co.; Life Director, Carleton County Protestant Hospital; Life Director, Protestant Hospital for the aged. He was instrumental in erecting the Lady Stanley Institute for Trained Nurses; is Honorary Director, Central Canada Exposition Association. In 1871 he married Mary Gallagher, daughter of Thomas Gallagher. She died in March, 1902. In August, 1904, he married Henrietta Gallagher, his deceased wife’s half-sister. He is a member of the following clubs: Ottawa Hunt, Rivermead Golf (director), and of the A.F. & A.M. (32nd degree), the Oddfellows, and St. George’s Societies. His recreation is golf. Politics, Conservative. Religion, Methodist, and he resides at 306 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
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=Anderson, Alexander James= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Adelaide Township, Middlesex County, July 1, 1863, and was educated at Strathroy High School and Osgoode Hall. Toronto is as famous for its Bar as it is in its commercial and manufacturing industry, and in alluding to its leading members, prominent mention must be made of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Anderson started his professional career with J. S. Fullerton & Co., which partnership continued from 1891 to 1897; from 1894 to 1906 he practised alone; from 1907 to 1909 was a member of the firm of Anderson & Gray, and entered his present partnership as senior member of the firm (Anderson & McMaster) in 1910. Having municipal aspirations, Mr. Anderson was elected to the Council of Toronto Junction from 1899 to 1902; was corporation solicitor for West Toronto until the amalgamation with the city in 1909, when he was elected alderman to represent Ward Seven in the City Council. He was for four years a member of the West Toronto School Board, and was elected Chairman of that body in 1899. During the elections in 1904 he was unanimously selected by the Liberals of South York as the party standard bearer, and though defeated he made a very creditable showing at the close of the polls. Mr. Anderson has many warm friends and supporters in the western portion of the city, and he will show unexpected strength should he again become a candidate. He is a Mason and takes an active interest in the welfare of the Order.
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=Barnard, Hon. George Henry, K.C.=, Member of the Senate of Canada (Victoria, B.C.), is a son of Francis Jones Barnard, a Canadian who went to British Columbia from Ontario, when gold was first discovered in the Fraser River, in 1859, and shortly afterwards became the founder of the stage and express line from Yale, head of navigation on the Fraser, to Barkerville, 400 miles to the north. On the famous Yale-Cariboo Road the elder Barnard long operated a line of stages and carried the mail to the mountain settlements of the district. The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this sketch was Ellen Hillman, and he was born at Victoria, B.C., Oct. 9, 1868. Sir Frank S. Barnard, K.C.M.G., Lieut.-Governor of British Columbia, is a brother. He was educated at Trinity College School, Port Hope, and qualified for the law, entering practice at Victoria. He was appointed King’s Counsel on Dec. 24, 1907. Senator Barnard took an active interest in municipal affairs and served as Alderman, 1902-3. In 1904 he was elected Mayor of Victoria and continued in office for two years. He was first elected to the House of Commons for that city at the general elections of 1908, as a Conservative and was re-elected in 1911. On Oct. 23, 1917, he was elevated to the Senate of Canada by the newly-formed Union Government of Sir Robert Borden. Senator Barnard is a prominent social figure both at Victoria and Ottawa, and is a member of the Union Club, Victoria, the Vancouver Club, the Rideau Club, Ottawa and the Constitutional Club, London, Eng. He was married on June 5, 1895, to Ethel Burnham, daughter of Lieut.-Col. H. C. Rogers, Postmaster of Peterboro, Ont., is an Anglican in religion and a Unionist in politics.
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=Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, M.L.A.= (Lachine, Que.), son of George Ashby and Eprosime Messier, both French Canadians; was born at Ste. Marie de Monnoir, Province of Quebec, April 30, 1876. Educated at the college of Ste. Marie de Monnoir. Married Hectorine Ste. Marie, daughter of Pierre Zotique Ste. Marie, of Longueuil, Que., and is the father of two children, Lucette, born November 7, 1908, and Georgette, born August 7, 1910. Mr. Ashby is a Roman Catholic in religion, and is a member of the Montreal Reform Club, the Order of Catholic Foresters, the Alliance Nationale, Union St. Joseph de Lachine, and The Knights of Columbus. Was elected to the Quebec Legislature as the Liberal representative for the constituency of Jacques Cartier on May 16, 1916. Mr. Ashby is a Notary Public by profession.
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