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REPRESENTATIVE CANADIANS

Brief Biographies of Persons Distinguished in the Professional, Military and Political Life, and the Commerce and Industry of Canada, in the Twentieth Century.

TORONTO THE HUNTER-ROSE COMPANY, LIMITED 1919

PREFACE

It is now thirty-three years since the first volume of biographies bearing the title "Representative Canadians" was issued by the present firm of publishers. In 1886 the scope of the work was unique, so far as this country was concerned, for previous volumes of the kind had confined themselves to the careers of Canadians who have won fame in either a political or military capacity. The aim of the editors of the first volume of "Representative Canadians" was to give recognition of the emergence of Canada from a colonial to something like a national status by recording something of the achievements of those who had contributed to the intellectual, industrial and commercial growth of the country, as well as of its political leaders. The purpose remained the same in the second volume published in 1888, and is once more the impulse of the present book.

The vast majority of those whose careers were recorded in 1886 have passed away; and the same is true of those who figured in the second volume of the series. Consequently, the earlier issues of "Representative Canadians" grow every day more precious, for, in many cases, they contain the sole records of men who initiated great enterprises or furthered important movements which have left a lasting mark on the history of Canada. We cannot but think that the reader who, thirty or forty years hence, may chance to scan the pages of the present volume will gather a very vivid picture of Canada as it was in one of the crucial periods of the world's affairs--a picture in which the characters of those Canadians who lived and "carried on" through the years of the greatest war in all history may be discerned in the records of their lives. There is hardly a page in this book into which the war does not enter directly or indirectly in some form or other, by way of allusions to services rendered, bereavements endured, or honours gained on the field of battle. In that sense the 1919 volume must remain unique, and a mine of useful information for students in future generations.

Generally speaking, in comparing the biographies of the Canadians of to-day with those of 1886 and 1888, the reader gains a sense of this country's continuous expansion. The present century has witnessed a marvellous development in the Canadian West, so that in these pages we find numerous records showing not merely the commercial, but the intellectual, progress of the Provinces West of the Great Lakes--stories of brilliant careers built up by men who were mere children in the East when the first volume was published. The reader will also note in the biographies of business men which abound in these pages, the ever-increasing scale on which Canadian commerce and enterprise everywhere is conducted, so that what seemed large in 1886 is relatively small to-day. Though some of the men whose names figure in the index are of less importance than others, all play their part in our complex and vigorous social life, and the story of their progress and fortunes cannot be really tedious to any sympathetic student of humanity.

TORONTO, 1919.

INDEX

Adamson, Alan Joseph, 124 Adamson, John Evans, 121 Aikenhead, Thomas E., 47 Aikins, Lieut.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, 81 Allan, John, 98 Ames, Sir Herbert B., 4 Ami, Henry M., 142 Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., 299 Anderson, Alexander James, 126 Anderson, Frederic William, 75 Anderson, Prof. George R., 144 Anderson, James T. M., 65 Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, 52 Arkell, Thomas Reginald, 180 Armstrong, Samuel, 174 Arnold, William McCullough, 114 Arrell, Harrison, 52 Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E., 215 Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, 127 Ashton, Major-General Ernest, 270 Askwith, John E., 106 Asselin, Major Olivar, 144

B?by, Wolstan Alexander Dixie, 229 Bachand, Leonide Charles, 69 Bailey, Charles Frederick, 218 Baillie, Sir Frank, 110 Bain, John, 66 Ball, Emerson Ewart, 61 Ball, Robert James, 64 Ballantyne, James, 145 Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, 223 Barnard, Hon. George Henry, 126 Barrow, Hon. Edward Dodsley, 205 Barry, Walter H., 124 Baskerville, William Joseph, 148 Bates, Joseph Lever, 165 Bates, Thomas Nathaniel, 272 Beach, Mahlon F., 49 Beaumont, Ernest Joseph, 56 B?gin, Louis Nazaire, 17 Beith, Hon. Robert, 40 Bellemare, Adelard, 125 Bell, Clarence A. H., 274 Bell, Hon. George Alexander, 230 Bell, John Howatt, 74 Bell, John Percival, 257 Belcourt, Hon. Napoleon Antoine, 61 Bender, Prosper, 31 Bennett, Richard Bedford, 255 Berthiaume, Arthur, 147 Best, John, 43 Bethune, Rev. Charles James Stewart, 76 Birkett, Thomas, 125 Black, Henry, 133 Blair, Lieutenant James K., 273 Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard, 212 Bole, David W., 221 Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird, 1 Boudreau, L. N. H. Rodolphe, 180 Bowell, Sir Mackenzie, 44 Bowes, James Leslie Llewellyn, 69 Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William, 251 Bowman, Charles Martin, 275 Boyd, Leslie Hale, 98 Boyer, Major Gustave, 90 Boyer, Louis, 40 Braden, Norman Short, 250 Braithwaite, Edward Ernest, 73 Breadner, Robert Walker, 132 Breithaupt, John C., 228 Breithaupt, Louis J., 43 Brennan, John Charles, 131 Briggs, William, 68 Bristow, Michael George, 73 Brock, Lieut.-Colonel Henry, 70 Brock, William Rees, 71 Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe, 220 Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry, 65 Bronson, Henry Franklin, 34 Brossoit, Numa Edouard, 274 Buchanan, William A., 171 Buckles, Daniel, 119 Bulman, William John, 131 Burgoyne, William Bartlett, 186 Burpee, Lawrence Johnston, 39 Bulyea George Hedley Vicars, 143 Butler, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Page, 282 Butterworth, John George Bissett, 256 Byrne, Daniel J., 129

Callahan, John, 190 Camaraire, Alfred Frederick, 115 Cameron, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Douglas, 16 Campbell, Colin, 103 Campbell, Donald Grant, 151 Campbell, William Brough, 234 Cane, James Gilbert, 111 Carew, John, 22 Carson, Hugh, 145 Cartwright, Lieut.-Colonel Robert, 168 Casgrain, Philippe Baby, 27 Cash, Edward L., 157 Cassils, Charles, 151 Cave, James G., 138 Chabot, Lieut.-Colonel John Leo, 63 Chadwick, Edward Marion, 37 Chamberlain, Theodore F., 45 Chambers, Colonel Ernest John, 283 Champagne, Napoleon, 209 Chapleau, Maj. Samuel Edmour St. Onge, 47 Chaplin, James D., 184 Charlesworth, Hector, 254 Charlton, William Granville, 64 Chauvin, Hon. T. Hector, 150 Chisholm, William Craig, 108 Choquette, Ernest, 138 Choquette, Philippe Auguste, 137 Chrysler, Francis Henry, 80 Clark, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh, 100 Clark, John Murray, 78 Clute, Arthur Roger, 34 Coats, Robert Hamilton, 104 Coburn, John W., 123 Cockshutt, William Foster, 2 Cody, Hon. Henry John, 109 Cole, George M., 63 Cole, Col. Wilmot Howard, 28 Colquhoun, Arthur Hugh Urquhart, 261 Commeford, James W., 139 Conant, Gordon Daniel, 131 Connolly, Bernard Gervase, 190 Coombs, Albert Ernest, 64 Coristine, Major Stanley B., 295 Corrigan, Ambrose Eugene, 206 C?t?, Narcisse Omer, 221 Cotton, Major-General W. H., 249 Cousineau, Joseph Philemon, 192 Cousins, George Vipond, 159 Cowan, William Frederick, 84 Cox, Herbert Coplin, 26 Coyne, James Henry, 14 Crannell, Levi, 302 Creelman, Lieut.-Colonel John Jennings, 185 Cronyn, Hume, 228 Cross, Alexander S. G., 151 Cross, Charles Wilson, 32 Crossland, E. F., 136 Crothers, Hon. Thomas Wilson, 90 Crowther, William H., 190 Cudmore, Sedley Anthony, 302 Currie, General Sir Arthur William, 165 Cutten, George Barton, 193

Dalley, Frederick Fenner, 218 Dalton, Hon. Charles, 204 Daniels, Hon. Orlando T., 206 Dargavel, John Robertson, 133 Davey, James, 68 David, Hon. Laurent Olivier, 182 Davidson, James Wheeler, 191 Davidson, William McCartney, 225 Davis, Albert Mayno, 229 Davis, Aubrey, 176 Dawson, Arthur Osborne, 32 De Celles, Alfred Duclos, 66 Delage, Cyrille F., 195 Demers, Joseph, 160 Denis, J. Wilfred, 69 Denton, Frank, 62 Deroche, William Paschal, 172 de Tremaudan, A. H., 76 Detwiler, Noah Bechtel, 277 Dewart, Herbert Hartley, 275 Dickson, Rev. James A. R., 136 Dinnick, Lieut.-Col. Wilfrid Servington, 193 Diver, Frederick, 125 Dobell, Sir Charles Macpherson, 24 Doherty, Hon. Charles Joseph, 156 Dollard, Rev. James B., 184 Donogh, John Ormsby, 161 Donovan, Albert Edward, 300 Doughty, Arthur George, 297 Douglas, James, 32 Douglas, William James, 195 Dowling, John S., 176 Drayton, Sir Henry Lumley, 23 Drayton, Philip Henry, 276 Drysdale, William, 186 Duclos, Arnold Willard, 285 Duff, Hon. Lyman Poore, 271 Dunlop, Edward Arunah, 237 Dunning, Hon. Charles Avery, 216 Dwyer, William Henry, 72 Dymond, Allan Malcolm, 41

Earle, Rufus Redmond, 119 Easson, Robert Henry, 281 Eddis, Wilton C., 69 Edwards, John Wesley, 45 Edwards, Hon. William Cameron, 123 Elliot, Major-General Harry Macintire, 284 Elliott, John Campbell, 60 Ellis, James Albert, 102 Ellis, John F., 178 Elson, John Melbourne, 288 Englehart, Joel Lewis, 173 Ethier, Joseph Arthur Calixte, 133 Evanturel, Gustave, 67 Ewart, David, 174 Ewing, William, 194

Farris, Hon. John Wallace de Beque, 214 Farrow, Robinson Russell, 238 Faulkner, Hon. George Everett, 206 Ferguson, Hon. George Howard, 196 Ferguson, Hon. William Nassau, 39 Fielding, Hon. William Stevens, 279 Fifield, Albert Frank, 198 Finlayson, George Daniel, 239 Finnie, David Maclachan, 179 Fisher, His Honor Walter George, 185 Flavelle, William M., 134 Flint, Thomas Barnard, 79 Flynn, Edmund James, 263 Foran, Joseph Kearney, 280 Forin, John Andrew, 122 Forman, James C., 247 Forster, J. W. L., 172 Foster, Thomas Wilfred, 248 Foster, Hon. Walter Edward, 254 Fraleck, Edison Baldwin, 67 Fraser, George B., 71 Freiman, Archibald J., 132

Galbraith, Walter Stuart, 147 Gale, George Charles, 134 Gale, Robert Henry, 288 Gariepy, Wilfrid, 127 Garland, John L., 105 Garneau, Sir George, 25 Gartshore, Lieut.-Colonel William Moir, 180 Gibbon, Arthur Playford, 232 Gibbons, John Joseph, 69 Gibson, Brig.-General Sir John Morison, 242 Gibson, Theron, 27 Gill, Robert, 289 Gillespie, Professor Peter, 74 Girard, A. D., 167 Girard, Joseph, 31 Godfrey, Oswald Julius, 149 Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel, 34 Goring, C. C., 193 Gouin, Hon. Sir Jean Lomer, 22 Graham, Hon. George Perry, 267 Grange, Edward Alexander Andrew, 74 Grange, Edward Wilkinson, 39 Grant, Gordon, 197 Grierson, Hon. George Allison, 133 Groves, Abraham, 38 Guilbault, Joseph Pierre Octave, 34 Gwatkin, Major-General W. G., 260 Gwynne, Brig.-General Reginald John, 286

Ingersoll, James Hamilton, 178 Ingram, George C., 123 Innes, Hugh Patterson, 199 Irwin, William Nassau, 234 Izzard, Dennis Jabez, 95

Jacobs, Samuel W., 89 James, Edgar Augustus, 178 Jarvis, Ernest Frederick, 191 Jenkins, Lieut.-Col. Stephen Rice Jenkins, 213 Jett?, the Hon. Sir Louis, 10 Johnson, Hon. Thomas Herman, 238 Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, 97 Jones, George Burpee, 95 Jones, Henry Victor Franklin, 87 Jones, James William, 161

Kastner, Gideon, 163 Keefe, R. Daniel, 86 Kelso, John Joseph, 194 Kemp, Hon. Sir Albert Edward, 16 Kennedy, William Costello, 11 Kent, Joseph, 110 King, Hon. James H., 195 King, Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie, 286 Kyte, George William, 77

MacAulay, Brock, 157 Macaulay, John, 101 Macaulay, Thomas Basset, 99 Macdonald, Sir Donald Alexander, 225 MacDonald, Donald D., 175 Macdonald, John, 50 MacDonald, Neil S., 48 Macdonald, Selkirk M., 96 Machado, Jose Antonio, 211 Machin, Lt.-Col. Harold Arthur Clement, 203 Mackay, Hon. Col. Alexander Howard, 191 Mackenzie, Daniel D., 294 Mackenzie, Hugh Blair, 158 MacKenzie, John Angus, 177 Mackenzie, Norman, 93 Mackie, George D., 150 Mackintosh, Charles Herbert, 56 MacLean, Archie, 86 MacLean, Hon. John Duncan, 117 Mann, Alexander Robert, 168 Marchand, Pierre, 249 Marcile, Joseph Edmond, 155 Margeson, Lieut.-Colonel Joseph Willis, 217 Marnoch, George Robert, 104 Marsh, Lieut.-Colonel Lorne Wilmot, 88 Marshall, Lieut.-Col. Kenric Reid, 302 Marshall, Lieut.-Colonel Noel G. L., 169 Martin, Hon. William Melville, 231 Massey, C. D., 53 Massey, Charles Vincent, 202 Mather, James, 205 Matthews, George Sands, 155 McBrien, Frederick George, 155 McCarthy, Jesse Overn, 201 McClennaghan, Stewart, 169 McConnell, Richard George, 165 McCorkill, Hon. Justice John Charles, 20 McCuaig, Clarence James, 111 McCuish, Robert George, 120 McCullough, Charles Robert, 48 McCurdy, Fleming Blanchard, 266 McEvoy, John Millar, 283 McFall, Robert James, 298 McGiverin, Harold Buchanan, 177 McInenly, William, 60 McInnes, William, 203 McKay, Hon. James, 159 McKeon, Very Rev. Dean P. J., 178 McLean, Angus Alexander, 240 McLean, Hon. Daniel, 160 McLean, Major-Gen. Hugh Havelock, 62 McMahon, Edward, 89 McMahon, James Alexander, 259 McNeeley, John Strachan Lewis, 153 McNeil, Most Rev. Neil, 175 McNeillie, James Richardson, 36 McQuarrie, William Garland, 188 Meek, Edward, 58 Meighen, Hon. Arthur, 8 Merner, Jonathan Joseph, 154 Middlebr?, William S., 87 Mikel, William Charles, 54 Mills, Charles Henry, 93 Miller, Frederick Robert, 213 Miller, Lieut.-Colonel John Bellamy, 262 Mitchell, Hon. Robert Menzies, 11 Mitchell, Hon. Walter George, 245 Minehan, Rev. Lancelot, 85 Mondou, Alberic Archie, 153 Montgomery, Hugh John, 96 Morehouse, Oscar Emery, 135 Morgan, Colin Daniel, 52 Morin, Pierre Alphonse, 270 Morin, Victor, 75 Murphy, Hon. Charles, 28 Murray, Hon. Robert, 252 Musson, Charles Joseph, 53

Nanton, Sir Augustus Meredith, 183 Nash, Charles William, 280 Nasmith, Colonel George Gallie, 263 Neill, Charles Ernest, 278 Nesbitt, Arthur Russel, 249 Nicholls, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Frederic, 264 Nicholson, Arthur Edwin, 277 Nickle, William Folger, 107 Norcross, Joseph W., 201 Northrup, William Barton, 250 Notman, John Charles, 177 Noyes, John Powell, 257

Odlum, Edward, 141 O'Hara, Francis Charles Trench, 118 Oliver, Hon. John, 196 O'Reilly, His Honor James Redmond, 86 Owens, Edward W. J., 299

Paisley, James K., 83 Panet, Lieut.-Colonel Charles Louis, 279 Paquet, Eugene, 157 Pardee, Frederick Forsyth, 33 Pardoe, Avern, 176 Parent, Hon. Simon Napoleon, 226 Parmelee, William George, 20 Parsons, S. R., 246 Paton, Hugh, 177 Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, 120 Patterson, John Pratt, 61 Payne, Francis Freeman, 150 Pedley, Frank, 213 Pennington, David Henry, 117 Perley, Sir George Halsey, 205 Perry, Nathaniel Irwin, 139 Petrie, Harry David, 275 Peuchen, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Godfrey, 121 Pope, Major William Walter, 82 Poulin, Stanislas, 101 Power, William, 161 Pratt, Edward Courtney, 82 Price, Samuel, 95 Price, Sir William, 15 Pringle, Robert Abercrombie, 105 Pritchard, Henry Thomas, 215 Proudfoot, William, 210 Proulx, Edmond, 161 Pugh, Thomas James, 181 Pullan, E., 277 Pyne, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Robert Allan, 90

Rawlings, Henry Edward, 197 Regan, Frank, 189 Reid, Frank, 85 Reid, William Brown, 237 Rhodes, Hon. Edgar Nelson, 13 Richardson, John, 297 Riddell, Hon. William Renwick, 82 Roadhouse, William Albert, 109 Robb, Thomas, 54 Robertson, Edward Blake, 184 Robertson, Hon. Gideon Decker, 240 Robertson, John Ross, 5 Robertson, Norman, 94 Robertson, William John, 91 Robertson, William Robert, 199 Robinette, Thomas Cowper, 252 Roche, Hon. William James, 102 Roche, Francis James, 292 Rogers, Albert S., 183 Rogers, John Morrison, 261 Rose, George Maclean, 272 Rose, Hon. Mr. Justice Hugh Edward, 93 Rose, William Oliver, 188 Ross, James Gibb, 21 Ross, John Theodore, 261 Rowell, Hon. Newton Wesley, 202 Russell, Adam Lothian, 235 Rust, C. H., 124 Rutherford, Colonel Hon. Alexander Cameron, 278 Rutherford, John Gunion, 226

Saint Cyr, Joseph Fortunat, 98 Sainte-Pierre, F., 97 St. Jean, Ulric, 157 Samuel, Sigmund, 92 Sauv?, Arthur, 203 Sayles, Edwin Roy, 164 Scott, F. Stewart, 183 Scott, James Guthrie, 30 Scott, William Duncan, 106 Seguin, Paul Arthur, 92 Senecal, Francis Albert, 204 Sharpe, Samuel Simpson, 100 Shepherd, Simpson James, 123 Shier, Walter C., 91 Shillington, Lieut.-Col. Adam Tozeland, 236 Shortly, Orville Benjamin, 248 Shutt, Frank Thomas, 96 Sifton, Hon. Arthur Lewis, 209 Sinclair, Robert Victor, 234 Sinclair, Victor Albert, 94 Sine, Frederick, 158 Sloan, Hon. William, 207 Smart, Russell Sutherland, 259 Smith, Hon. Ernest Albert, 214 Smith, John Charles, 92 Smith, William, 53 Stapells, Richard A., 219 Starr, J. R. L., 156 Stewart, Charles, 99 Stewart, Dougald, 160 Street, Lieut.-Colonel Douglas Richmond, 140 Struthers, James Douglas, 163 Studholme, Allan, 115 Sutherland, Donald, 60 Sutherland, Fred C., 296 Sutherland, Thomas Fraser, 181

Vance, His Honor, George M., 160 Vaughan, Marshall, 293 Veale, Philip Henry, 239 Veniot, Hon. Peter John, 208

LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES

Askwith, Jno. E, Ottawa.

Baillie, Sir Frank W., Toronto. Baskerville, W. J., Ottawa. Beach, the late M. F. Beaumont, E. J., Kitchener. Birkett, Thomas, Ottawa. Blondin, Hon. P. E., Ottawa. Borden, Right. Hon. Sir R. L., Ottawa. Bowman, Charles M., Southampton. Breadner, R. W., Ottawa. Breithaupt, J. C., Kitchener. Breithaupt, L. J., Kitchener. Brennan, J. C., Ottawa. Bristow, M. G., Ottawa. Bulman, W., Winnipeg. Butterworth, J. G. B., Ottawa.

Cowan, the late W. F., Ottawa. Currie, Major-General Sir Arthur William, Victoria, B.C.

Dwyer, W. H., Ottawa.

Edwards, Senator W. C., Ottawa. Englehart, Jacob L., Petrolia, Ontario.

Finnie, D. M., Ottawa.

Gale, R. H., Vancouver, B.C. Gariepy, Hon. Wilfrid, Edmonton. Garland, John L., Ottawa. Gibson, Brig.-General Sir John M., Hamilton. Gouin, Sir Lomer, Quebec. Graham, Hon. Geo. P., Brockville. Grant, Gordon, Ottawa.

Harris, W. G., Toronto. Hebert, Zepherin, Montreal. Henry, D. E., Ottawa. Hodgetts, Colonel C. A., Ottawa. Hunter, Major W. E. Lincoln, Toronto. Hutchison, Colonel Wm., Ottawa.

Kennedy, W. C., Windsor. King, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie, Ottawa.

Laurier, the late Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid

Macaulay, T. B., Montreal. Machin, Colonel H. A. C., Kenora. Mackenzie, John Angus, Ottawa. McClennaghan, Stewart, Ottawa. McInenly, William, Ottawa. McMahon, E., Ottawa. Mitchell, Hon. W. G., Quebec.

Parsons, S. R., Toronto. Paton, Hugh, Montreal. Peuchen, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur, Toronto.

Reid, W. B., Toronto. Robertson, E. Blake, Ottawa.

Shillington, Colonel A. T., Ottawa. Shortly, Orville B., Toronto. Sifton, Hon. Arthur L., Ottawa. Stapells, R. A., Toronto. Sutherland, F. C., Toronto.

Turgeon, Hon. Adelard, Quebec.

Vaughan, Marshall, Welland, Ontario.

White, Right. Hon. Sir W. T., Ottawa. Whitney, E. C., Ottawa. Woods, Lieut.-Colonel James W., Ottawa. Wright, George, Toronto.

A CYCLOPAEDIA

CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY

In the federal and provincial campaigns in 1900, Mr. W. Gariepy for several months addressed meetings, spending the bulk of his time in the constituency of Terrebonne, at the request of the late Honorables Raymond Prefontaine and Jean Pr?vost. At that period, at the formation of a Liberal Students' Association in Montreal, he was elected its Secretary, while the Vice-President thereof was Walter Mitchell, the present Provincial Treasurer of Quebec. Having been admitted to the Bar of the Province of Quebec in January, 1903, Mr. Gariepy immediately secured his enrolment in the Bar of the North-West Territories and opened an office in Edmonton on the same spot where years before he had been carrying on work as a clerk in his father's store. In the following May a by-election having been called to elect a member for the constituency of St. Albert, in the North-West Territories Legislature, at a convention, Mr. Gariepy accepted the nomination but for personal reasons subsequently withdrew from the contest. For three years Mr. Gariepy was a member of the law firm of Taylor, Boyle and Gariepy, the senior member being Judge H. C. Taylor, of Edmonton District, and the other member, the Hon. J. R. Boyle, now Minister of Education in the Alberta Government. From 1907 to 1911, Mr. Gariepy was a member of the law firm of Gariepy & Landry, his partner being Mr. Hector Landry, son of the late Sir Pierre Landry, of New Brunswick. Mr. Gariepy is now the senior member of the firm of Gariepy, Dunlop & Pratt. This firm is among the leading firms of the City of Edmonton, and while his present political activities prevent our subject from devoting much time to law, he has always paid great attention to his law practice. He has had the distinction of figuring as leading counsel in two murder cases--one, the Gladu Brothers, who were acquitted, and the other the Barrett case, that life convict who was condemned to capital punishment after having been convicted of wilfully killing with an axe, Deputy-Governor Stedman, of the Edmonton Penitentiary. For six years Mr. Gariepy was a member of the Separate School Board of Edmonton, being chairman of the commission for two years. It was under his chairmanship that the Separate School on Third Street was erected. In December, 1906, he was elected an alderman of the city of Edmonton, and although running for the first time in the city at large, as there are no wards, he came second on the list, the first one beating him only by one vote. Two years later Mr. W. Gariepy was re-elected, this time at the head of the list, having some 300 more votes than the next man. While an alderman he held the chairmanship of several important committees and was delegated on two occasions: first, to Chicago with ex-Mayor J. A. McDougall, to inspect the automatic telephone system, which was eventually to be installed in Edmonton; and, second, to Ottawa with ex-Mayor Lee, to interview the Dominion Government respecting the Dominion's contribution towards the construction of the C.P.R. high-level bridge between Strathcona and Edmonton. It was during Mr. Gariepy's term of office that the Edmonton automatic telephone system was installed; that the street railway system was completed and put in operation; and that the C.P.R high-level bridge was completed and opened for traffic; and that negotiations for the amalgamation of Edmonton and Strathcona were begun. In 1910 Mr. Gariepy was chairman of the civic committee that organized such a splendid reception as was tendered to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Prime Minister, on the occasion of his visit to the Capital of Alberta, and it was at that time that Mr. Gariepy secured the adoption of a resolution by the city council giving to a park the name of "Laurier Park." Mr. Gariepy took a leading part in the federal campaigns of 1904, 1908 and 1911. In 1909 he was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate in the provincial constituency of St. Albert, his successful opponent being also a Liberal, as there was no Conservative candidate running. In 1911 he was elected Grand Knight of the Edmonton Council of the Knights of Columbus; in 1907 he was elected president of the Edmonton Soci?t? de St. Jean Baptiste; in 1912 he was elected vice-president of the French-Canadian Alberta Convention, held in Edmonton, and by that convention was elected as the only delegate to represent it at the French-Canadian Congress held that year in the city of Quebec; in 1913 he was elected president of the Society du Parler-Fran?ais of Alberta, and as such presided over the French-Canadian congress of Alberta, held at Edmonton in 1914. On September 9, 1903, Mr. Wilfrid Gariepy married Albertina Lessard, daughter of Jean P. Lessard and Annie Davidson, of Cranbourne, P.Q., a sister of the Hon. P. E. Lessard, M.L.A., for St. Paul, and a former business partner of Mr. J. H. Gariepy. We may note that Mr. P. E. Lessard had previously married Miss H?l?ne Gariepy, the eldest sister of our subject. From the marriage of Mr. W. Gariepy with Miss Lessard have been born four children: Hormidas, Marcelle, Wilfrid and George. Mr. Gariepy is a member of the Y.M.C.A. and a lieutenant in the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers. In 1912 he was elected as president of the Edmonton Liberal Association; on March 17, 1913, he was elected a member of the legislature for Beaver River. At the first session of that parliament, in the following September, he was chosen to make the speech in moving the adoption of the Speech from the Throne. On November 28, 1913, he was sworn in as Minister of Municipal Affairs, becoming a member of the administration headed by the Hon. Arthur L. Sifton. On December 15, 1913, Mr. Gariepy was re-elected for Beaver River, by acclamation. On December 22, 1913, at the Cecil Hotel, as a compliment on his becoming a member of the government, his French-Canadian compatriots, numbering some four hundred, tendered him a banquet. In September, 1915, Mr. Gariepy represented, with the Hon. Mr. Sifton, the Province of Alberta at a national tax conference held in San Francisco, California. In March, 1913, Mr. Gariepy was made a King's Counsel for the Province of Alberta. In August, 1915, the same honor was conferred on him by the Province of Quebec. At the date of writing this biography, Mr. Gariepy has been for over five years a member of the Alberta Government and his friends predict that he has yet a long public career to fulfil. As Minister of Municipal Affairs for Alberta Mr. Gariepy has been responsible for the introduction of legislation which has been a landmark in the western provinces, namely: The Wild Lands Tax Act and the Municipal Hospitals Act.

Some are while careful of their own affairs, And when successfully amassing wealth, Who oft-times will withdraw, as if by stealth To render good to others unawares. Well known to them the haunts of poverty. Clothed are the naked, and the hungry fed, Oft take they place beside the patient's bed To cheer sad hours; to soothe keen agony. These are earth's salt--they labor with a mind, Distress relieving, lessening human woe; In all their actions earnest, gentle, kind, Leaving sweet impress whereso'er they go. Theirs Heaven's reward; a crown upon each brow, Warm hearted DRYSDALE! such a man art thou!

"Out through the portals of death he passed To that ultimate, Unknown land; The chart of right and of deeds well done, Held in his cold, dead hand. For the words he traced to his latest breath Are unclouded by wrong or ruth; And stamped on all, as he met his death, Was the seal of love and truth."

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