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house to let it go through without opposition, on account of the
extreme urgency of at once letting the contract. The government
had had great difficulty in making a choice between the three lowest
bidders. Each of the contractors had offered advantages, and their
offers had been most carefully weighed from every point of view,
and from an engineering point as well, and Clarke, Reeves & Co.’s
had been found the most advantageous. In this opinion he was
confirmed by Mr. Peterson, chief engineer, to whose character,
carefulness and skill he was bound to testify most fully; and that his
opinion of Mr. Peterson’s engineering reputation was further
confirmed by the fact that his original estimates for the cost of the
whole bridge had been in every case reduced instead of, as is usual
in such cases, largely exceeded. Hon. Mr. Joly consented most
willingly to the second reading of the bill, and complimented the
premier on his frankness. He alluded to the current rumor of
favoritism in awarding the contract to Clarke, Reeves & Co., but he
declined to entertain the idea that the government was actuated by
any improper motives in awarding the contract to this firm, although
their tender was not the lowest. He then instanced the excellent
character and rapid construction of their work, and the special
advantages they were ready to afford; and said he had every
confidence in Mr. Peterson, and endorsed all the Hon. Mr. Chapleau
had said respecting him. Hon. Mr. Chapleau then thanked Hon. Mr.
Joly, and promised that the tenders would be submitted at once to
the house. In considering the letting of the contract he had, most
fortunately, had a professional adviser, upon whom he could rely—
Mr. Peterson being, in fact, the strictest and most rigid of engineers.
During his engagement with the Quebec government, he served
under the DeBoucherville, the Joly and the Chapleau administrations,
and gained the good will and confidence of them all, no party ever
venturing to criticise his conduct, which, however, was furiously
assailed by the contractor and his allies. On sending in his
resignation to the government he was asked to withdraw it. The line
between Montreal and Quebec was to be completed in October,
1877, and handed over to the government, but the contractor
refused to give it up and continued to run it for his own benefit,

keeping all the earnings. Two attempts were made to take
possession of it, but failed. In the summer of 1878, Mr. Peterson
offered to take possession of it for the government, which offer
being accepted, a full power of attorney was given him to act for the
Quebec government in the matter. The late Edward Carter, Q.C., was
engaged with him for a considerable time in perfecting the case, and
in August, Mr. Peterson, with the Hon. P. J. O. Chauveau, sheriff of
Montreal, took possession of the Montreal district against a large
force of men who were placed in charge of the Hochelaga and Mile
End stations by the contractor, and alone retained possession against
heavy odds and in spite of an injunction obtained by the contractor,
which was served upon him the day before the seizure, and again
while at Mile End holding a train against the will of the passengers
on board of it, and the employees of the late contractor. He held the
stations from noon till 10 p.m., when troops were obtained from the
Dominion government to keep what had been gained. The
government was so satisfied with the manner in which Mr. Peterson
obtained and held possession of the railway, that he was appointed
general manager. The contractor attempted through the courts, as
well as by force on several other occasions, to regain possession of
the line, but was defeated at every point. For taking possession of
the railway in defiance of the injunction, Mr. Peterson was tried for
contempt of court and found guilty, but was only required to give
bail not to do so again. Between this time and his resignation, Mr.
Peterson built the Chaudière bridge over the Ottawa river, just above
the Chaudière rapids. He also strongly advocated the eastern
entrance of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa & Ontario Railway into the
Quebec gate barracks, as against the proposed site at the Papineau
road, which had been commenced under the DeBoucherville
government; and having shewed the Joly government how cheaply it
could be built, got it adopted by that government, and carried it out
under the Chapleau government. On entering the services of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, in connection with the construction of the
St. Lawrence bridge, he made surveys of various sites, and among
them that recommended by the late Col. Roberts, president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, near the Lachine Rapids at

Heron Island, but finally reported in favor of the Caughnawaga line,
which was adopted in the winter of 1882; but nothing was done till
the autumn of 1885, when contracts were let. This work was
successfully carried out under Mr. Peterson’s direction during the
summer of 1886, and in addition he built the St. Anne’s and
Vaudreuil bridges over the Ottawa river, on the Ontario and Quebec
section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Sault Ste. Marie Bridge
was built during the summer of 1887, under Mr. Peterson’s direction,
for the Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company, which is composed of the
C. P. R, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic R’y, and the
Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railways. Mr. Peterson is
now engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in charge of the lines
east of Port Arthur.
Costigan, Hon. John, Ottawa, Minister of Inland
Revenue for the Dominion of Canada, M.P. for Victoria, New
Brunswick, was born at St. Nicholas, in the province of Quebec, on
February 1st, 1835, and received a sound education at the College
of St. Anne’s. When his education was completed, he moved to New
Brunswick, and thereafter for many years was connected with
various pursuits, being at one time registrar of deeds for Victoria
county, and a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for New
Brunswick. At a very early age Mr. Costigan gave evidence of the
solid intellectual qualities which were to become so conspicuous in
after years. Above all, those who watched him closely perceived an
unvarying persistency in any course which he marked out for
himself. Towards 1861 several of the leading inhabitants of Victoria
county decided that they would ask Mr. Costigan to offer himself as a
candidate for the legislature, and he consenting to do so, was
elected, and sat in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly until
1866, when on again appealing to his constituents he failed to
secure his re-election. He was during that period regarded as one of
the ablest men in the house, both sides paying great deference to
his opinions. At the general election after confederation he was

returned to the House of Commons, and has held his seat
uninterruptedly for Victoria county ever since. On May 23rd, 1882,
he was sworn in a member of the Privy Council, and made minister
of inland revenue, and still occupies that position. On the 20th May,
1872, Mr. Costigan moved an address in the House of Commons,
praying his Excellency the Governor-General to disallow the New
Brunswick School Act, on the ground “that said law is unjust and
causes much uneasiness among the Roman Catholic population.”
Some time before the introduction of Mr. Costigan’s resolutions,
persons had gone up and down through New Brunswick declaring
that the province must have a system of free, non-sectarian public
schools, and children of every denomination must attend these
schools, and that one and all, according to his real or personal
property, would be taxed to maintain the educational system. So far
this was good. The province had for many years previously made
liberal grants for education, but the schools were under
denominational control; there was no thorough system of inspection;
no uniform course of instruction, and subjects were taught on the
old fashioned parrot plan, an old teacher standing behind the
educational bulwark, driving education home with a birch rod.
Therefore it was a wise and progressive movement that some one
set on foot to reduce this chaos of catechism and birch, and
arithmetic and letters, into one harmonious, efficient and
enlightened system. The new idea carried the province by storm,
and then there was appointed a chief superintendent of education.
To this gentleman was assigned the task of drawing up an
educational chart, outlining courses of instruction, and prescribing
texts. He had just the qualifications needed to carry out the will of
the narrow politicians with respect to education and the Roman
Catholics, and so rancorously was he disposed towards Catholicism
that, it is averred, when writing a letter, he carried his hatred so far
as to avoid crossing his t’s. He imagined that all priests and lay
brothers were bad men, and all nuns wicked women, not fit in
character or garb to teach in the public schools, therefore he drew
up a regulation making it unlawful for any teacher employed in the
public schools to wear any badge, garb or emblem distinctive of any

denominational sect or order. This, of course, excluded nuns, lay
brothers, and people of a like ecclesiastical fashion, and the liberal
and high-minded proviso was characterized as “the government’s
infamous millinery regulation.” Holy Church had no cause for panic
when the idea of free, non-sectarian schools was at first broached,
although it fidgetted and fretted itself almost out of its vestments;
now it had a genuine grievance. It was when this narrow regulation
had been put upon the statute-book that Mr. Costigan, a Roman
Catholic, raised his voice in the House of Commons and besought
parliament to interpose its hand in justice to the minority in his
province. He was ably seconded by the Hon. Timothy Warren Anglin,
who pleaded until he became pathetic for justice to his co-
religionists. Mr. Anglin’s newspaper, the Freeman, week after week,
was laden with complainings against the injustice of the New
Brunswick legislature. It declared it was the duty of Sir John A.
Macdonald’s government to interfere its authority and maintain right.
Then Sir John fell under his Pacific scandal load, and the Reformers
returned to power, bringing with them Mr. Anglin, whom they put in
the speaker’s chair. During the first session of the new parliament,
Mr. Costigan again arose and moved his resolution, which ended in
these words: “That the government should advise his Excellency to
disallow the Act passed by the New Brunswick legislature.” In this
case Mr. Speaker Anglin’s support ended with putting the resolution.
The whole country knew how he had the Roman Catholic interests at
heart, but it was inexpedient now to press the matter—inexpedient
of course to embarrass his government, though this was the very
course that his great store of wisdom had suggested when Sir John
was in office. So Mr. Costigan had to fight the battle alone. To
dispose of the matter, the governor-general did not disallow the New
Brunswick School Act, and it would have been a constitutional crime
had he done so. Nor did Mr. Costigan desire the repeal of such
portions of the law as were just; he merely sought to remove the
intolerance and bigotry that disgraced the Act in the “millinery
regulations.” Although the Act was not repealed, Mr. Costigan’s
exertions were not without fruit, for Dr. Rand’s anti-Catholic provision
was expunged, and the doctor himself, as political decency in New

Brunswick increased, began to totter in his chair. At last Mr. Blair
asked him to resign, and he is now back in the province, where we
hope a career of usefulness shall always be open to him. Mr.
Costigan’s other great act in parliament was the submission, in 1882,
of “The Costigan Irish resolution,” praying that Her Majesty might
grant Home Rule government to Ireland on the self-government
colonial plan, likewise praying for the relief of “suspects,” and asking
other ameliorations. In so far as these resolutions addressed
themselves to the question of Home Rule for Ireland, history shall
always applaud their author, for he was only asking for a country,
dear to him by ties of race, a political condition, the success of which
he has tested. But it was a pity, a sad pity, that he, and parliament
behind him, should have so far forgotten themselves as to advise
another country as to what she should do to offenders against her
own laws. Mr. Costigan’s career has been a very able one. He is a
clear-headed, firm-handed administrator, and has his department
thoroughly under control. His admirers a few years ago presented
him with a splendid residence in Ottawa. Mr. Costigan in politics is a
Conservative, and in religion a Roman Catholic. He married, in 1855,
Harriet, daughter of John Ryan, of Grand Falls, New Brunswick.
Barnard, Edmund, Advocate, Montreal, Quebec, was born
at Three Rivers, on 23rd January, 1831. He is a son of Edward
Barnard, for many years prothonotary of Three Rivers, whose family
was originally from Yorkshire, England, settled at an early day in the
history of the colonies, at Deerfield, Mass., and immigrated thence
into Canada. Mr. Barnard received his education in the Colleges of
St. Hyacinthe, Nicolet and Montreal, and took his degrees of B.A.
and M.A. at St. John’s College, Fordham, N.Y. He studied law in the
office of Judge Polette, in Three Rivers; also with Sir John Rose and
the present Mr. Justice Monk, of the Court of Appeals, and was
admitted to the bar on the 23rd of October, 1853. Mr. Barnard is
known as one of the most studious, painstaking and successful
lawyers in Montreal. He has made a specialty of certain branches,

such as real estate, French law, municipal law, and law of banks and
corporations, he having a very extensive clientèle in those several
departments. He often visits England to attend to Canadian cases
before the judicial committee of the Privy Council. A fellow member
of the Montreal bar gives Mr. Barnard credit for having a very keen
perception of the old French law—second to that of no other lawyer
in the province—for being a very indefatigable worker in preparing
his wises, and for being a fluent and strong advocate, equally good
in the French and English languages. In 1858 Mr. Barnard was
married to Ellen King, daughter of the Hon. C. L. Austin, recorder of
the city of Albany, N.Y., and they have had issue of ten children.
Moodie, Mrs. Susanna, was the sixth daughter of the
late Thomas Strickland, of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England, and was
born on the 6th of December, 1803. This Strickland family was
certainly one of the most remarkable known in England, since the
famous “Nest of Nightingales,” five out of the six daughters having
made themselves more or less celebrated in the realm of letters. At
the age of thirteen, Susanna Moodie lost her father, at whose hands
she had received her education. Mr. Strickland was a man of
considerable wealth, highly cultured, and much devoted to literature,
so he spent much of his means upon his library, and instilled into his
family the same love for belles lettres that he felt himself. Many have
regretted that the excellent man did not live to see the fruition of his
care. Susanna, it is said, began to write when in her sixteenth year,
her early productions being poems and tales for children. In 1829-
30, she put out a volume entitled, “Enthusiasm, and other Poems.”
In the same year, during a visit to London, she met Lieutenant J. W.
Dunbar Moodie, the fourth son of the late James Moodie, of
Melsetter, Orkney Islands, to whom she was married on the 4th of
April, 1831. Lieutenant Moodie belonged to the 21st Fusiliers, and
was then on half pay. They left England in the following year for
Canada, settling at Cobourg for a few months, thence proceeding to
the township of Hamilton, eight miles from Cobourg, where they

took a farm, and remained a year, after which they permitted
themselves, unwisely, to be persuaded to settle in the backwoods,
ten miles north of Peterborough. This region was then a perfect
wilderness. There was no church, no school, no refined society, and
very little cleared land near where they took up their abode. Here,
struggling with all the privations belonging to life in the woods, they
lived for eight years, in the meantime spending all their available
money in the purchase of wild lands, and in the operation of the
farm, an occupation for which the family, gentle bred, and
unaccustomed and unsuited to labour, were singularly unfit. When,
in 1837, the rebellion broke out, Lieutenant Moodie, who, from his
birth and military training was a devoted loyalist, hastened away to
Toronto, leaving his wife and four little children, the eldest only in
her fifth year, behind him in the bush. The summer following, he
remained absent, and much of the crops were lost, because there
was no help to harvest it. All this Mrs. Moodie vividly and feelingly
describes in her delightful book, “Roughing it in the Bush.” This was
the first ambitious literary effort of Mrs. Moodie, and it attracted
wide attention. The style was simple, limpid and picturesque: it was
full of movement, and contained pen portraits, which were true to
the life, of the hardships of the family’s wilderness life; of the
character of the neighbours with whom she was thrown in contact,
and of her alternating hopes and disappointments. When the book
came out, the Canadians who were pictured in it were terribly wroth,
and probably it was the sex of the author that saved her from
maltreatment. But she never once exceeded the bounds of truth in
her delineations, and invariably pictured the good traits as well as
the bad ones, of the ordinary Canadian backwoods family. The book
was brought out in England in 1850, but the greatest portion of its
contents had already been published in the Literary Garland,
Montreal. Encouraged by the success of this book, Mrs. Moodie
afterwards brought out in quick succession, through her London
publishers, the Messrs. Bentley, “Life in the Clearings,” “Flora
Lindsay,” “Mark Hurdleston,” “The World Before them,” “Matrimonial
Speculation,” and other works of a more or less fictitious character. It
may be said here that after eight years of travail in the woods, Mrs.

Moodie received the glad tidings that her husband had been
appointed sheriff of the county of Hastings. In a late edition of
“Roughing it in the Bush,” brought out by Hunter, Rose & Co.,
Publishers, of Toronto, Mrs. Moodie writes a preface recounting the
social, industrial, educational and moral progress of Canada, since
the time of her landing. After Sheriff Moodie’s death at Belleville, in
1869, Mrs. Moodie made her home in Toronto with her younger son,
R. B. Moodie; but on his removal to a new residence out of town,
she remained with her daughter, Mrs. J. J. Vickers, and passed
peacefully away on the afternoon of April 8th, 1885, surrounded by
her children and grandchildren. Her aged sister, Mrs. Traill, was
beside her at the last. Mrs. Moodie’s often expressed wish to be laid
beside her beloved husband at Belleville, where the happiest part of
her years were spent, was carried out, and her remains were
followed to their last resting-place, close to the beautiful Bay of
Quinté, by a large number of dear friends.
McMillan, John, M.D., Pictou, Nova Scotia, was born in
London, Ontario, 18th January, 1834. His parents were William
McMillan and Anne McKenzie. He received his early education at the
schools of his native place, and afterward attended McGill University,
Montreal, where he graduated in May, 1857. He then removed to
Nova Scotia, and began the practice of his profession in Wallace,
Cumberland county. After remaining there for some time he removed
to Sherbrooke, Guysborough county, then to New Glasgow, and
finally to Pictou, Pictou county, where for the last thirteen years he
practised, and has succeeded in building up a good business. He is
quarantine officer for the port of Pictou. He belongs to the Masonic
order, and is a past master of Caledonia lodge. He was married on
11th June, 1868, to Annie, youngest daughter of the late Senator
Holmes, of Pictou, N.S.

Larocque, Rt. Reverend Bishop Joseph, was
born at St. Joseph, Chambly, the 28th August, 1808, of one of the
most respectable families in that place, and from his earliest years
gave evidence of unusual piety and talent. It was no doubt owing to
this fact that in 1821 he, with his cousin Charles, who afterwards
succeeded him as bishop, upon the recommendation of Mr. Mignault,
was educated at the expense of Mr. de St. Ours, and other true
friends of education, at the College of St. Hyacinthe, then in its
infancy. Young Joseph Larocque was a model scholar, always first in
his studies, and practising those virtues which distinguished him in
all the varied phases of his after life. In 1829, after having
terminated a very brilliant classical course, he entered the
ecclesiastical state, and until 1847 we find him working zealously to
conquer all difficulties and gain for the St. Hyacinthe Seminary the
great renown which it now enjoys. He received the order of
priesthood at the hands of his Lordship J. J. Lartigue, on the 15th of
March, 1835, and occupied with distinction successively the posts of
professor, director, and superior of the institution to which he owed
so much. A priest of the merit of Abbé Larocque could not long
remain without attracting the attention of Bishop Bourget, who at
this time occupied the episcopal seat at Montreal. The eminent
prelate summoned him, and conferred upon him the canonship,
thereby procuring a most valuable auxiliary in the administration of
his diocese, one who, in his manifold duties and work, exercised his
natural talent, profound science, and indefatigable zeal. He was
entrusted with the editing of Religious Miscellany, published under
the auspices of Bishop Bourget. Mgr. Prince, then coadjutor bishop
of Montreal, being delegated to take to the Holy Father at Rome the
decree of the first council at Quebec, Canon Larocque received
orders to accompany him as secretary. During his sojourn in the Holy
City he was named Bishop of Cydonia, by his Holiness Pope Pius IX.,
and coadjutor of Montreal, in place of his Lordship J. C. Prince,
promoted to the new bishopric of St. Hyacinthe. On the 28th of the
following October he was consecrated in his native parish (Chambly)
by Bishop Bourget, assisted by their Lordships Guigues, bishop of

Ottawa, and Cooke, bishop of Three Rivers. During the next eight
years Bishop Larocque fulfilled his numerous duties in a most
exemplary manner, to the detriment of his health. In June, 1860, he
was transferred to the bishopric of St. Hyacinthe, but owing to his
constant suffering and infirmities, he asked the permission of the
Pope to abdicate his charge, which was granted by a Papal decree,
dated August 17th, 1865. In July, 1866, Mgr. Larocque was
nominated by his Holiness Pope Pius IX., bishop of Germanicopolis.
The principal work of the pious prelate during his short term as head
of the diocese, was the founding of the Community of the Precious
Blood, which in a few years became renowned for piety and virtue.
This community owe to the venerable and devoted father the
constitution which governs them, and several spiritual works, among
others, “Manner of Devotion to the Precious Blood,” and “Meditations
for each Month of the Year;” also, “The Liturgical Year,” comprising
meditations for Sundays and all the notable feasts of the year. The
Lord remembered this faithful and earnest worker in permitting him
to see the success which crowned his many efforts, for which the
diocese of St. Hyacinthe owes him a debt of gratitude, only to be
repaid by continuing in the noble work so ably mapped out for them.
Bishop Joseph Larocque died November 18th, 1887.
McDonald, Hon. James, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Nova Scotia, was born at East River, Pictou county, N.S., 1st
July, 1828. His family were among the first Scotch Highlanders who
came to Nova Scotia one hundred years ago. They established at
Pictou a thoroughly Scottish community which bears their impress
legibly to this day. The chief justice had very few educational or
inherited advantages to help him in his early days, but he possessed
a splendid physique, unfailing good-temper and kindliness, great
shrewdness and common sense, and laudable ambition. He obtained
his preliminary education at New Glasgow, the second town in Pictou
county, being the seat of valuable collieries, glass-works and other
manufactories, and one of the most flourishing and progressive

spots in the province. After completing his course, he studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He at once obtained a good
practice, and gained a considerable reputation as a platform speaker.
He always took a great interest in politics, being a staunch
Conservative. He first came to the front as a political candidate in
1859 when he successfully contested Pictou county in the general
election of that year. The Conservative party were fast gaining
strength and bidding again for the political supremacy which had
been denied them for many years. Among the rising men was Dr.
Charles Tupper, a bold and fluent orator, and a man of great
administrative force and tact. Hon. J. W. Johnson, attorney-general
and facile princeps in his party for so many years, was getting old
and unfit for a hard campaign. Sir William Young had been made
chief justice, and other prominent Liberals were dropping out of the
ranks. Railways were building and there was an impetus thereby
given to the general hopefulness of the country. There were hot
debates in the House of Assembly where such men as A. G.
Archibald, Thomas Morrison, and Jonathan McCully strove for the
reins of power. Hon. Mr. McDonald again offered, in 1863, when his
party achieved a great victory at the polls. He was appointed by Dr.
Tupper, provincial secretary and premier, to the position of chief
railway commissioner for Nova Scotia, in June, 1863, and held this
office until December, 1864. In December, 1864, he was appointed
to a seat in the government with the portfolio of financial secretary.
The celebrated conferences of Charlottetown and Quebec were held
in the summer of 1864. There the preliminaries of confederation
were discussed. At the latter conference Nova Scotia was
represented by Dr. Tupper, Hon. W. A. Henry, now of the Supreme
Court of Canada, Jonathan (afterwards Judge) McCully, and Hon. R.
B. Dickey, senator. The next few months were times of fierce political
debate in the maritime provinces. Confederation was consummated
1st July, 1867, and was shortly afterwards followed by general
elections in the provinces and in the Dominion. The Conservatives
were routed at the polls. Dr. Tupper won his election in Cumberland
county, defeating Hon. William Annand by the narrow majority of 66.
Not a single Conservative member followed him to Ottawa on his

first appearance there. Among the defeated was the subject of this
sketch, who stood for Pictou. But previous to this time, and during
1865 and 1866, he had been appointed a commissioner,
representing his native province, to negotiate towards opening trade
relations between the West Indies, Mexico and Brazil and the British
American provinces. In prosecution of this mission he did some
travelling in the Antilles. In 1867 he was made a Queen’s counsel.
During the last years of his residence and practice at the bar in
Halifax, the city barristers, on his attaining to the twenty-fifth year of
his practice presented him with a silk gown accompanied by an
appreciative and friendly address. In thanking the gentlemen of the
long robe for their courtesy, he remarked that he was much touched
by their kindness, but that the incident carried with it one element of
regret in that it reminded him that he was growing old. The chief
justice, however, enjoys robust health, and has probably many years
before him. During these times he was working up one of the best-
known practices in Nova Scotia. He had become associated in Pictou
with Samuel G. Rigby (since Judge of the Supreme Court, a man
who died two years ago greatly regretted while yet little over forty
years of age), and removed to Halifax, establishing the firm of
McDonald & Rigby. They generally had in their office six students
and copyists, and their practice extended throughout the province.
S. G. Rigby is believed to have been the peer of any nisi prius lawyer
who ever held a brief in Nova Scotia. James McDonald was skilled in
all the arts of a cross-examiner and jury lawyer, whilst as a
chambers counsel he was unsurpassed by any. Mr. Rigby generally
went the Midland and Eastern circuits, where he never wanted a
client. At the general election held in the summer of 1872, Hon. Mr.
McDonald again contested Pictou for the House of Commons, and
this time successfully. He was a strong supporter of Sir John A.
Macdonald. The Pacific Scandal burst out in 1873, and in the debate
in the Commons he made one of the strongest defences of the
government. He was defeated at the general election of 1874, when
the Reform government seized the reins of power, but fought a hard
campaign in Pictou. At the general election in 1878 he returned with
his party to power, and was made minister of justice. This

appointment he held with credit until 20th May, 1881, when the late
Sir William Young having resigned, he was appointed chief justice of
the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He is also judge of the Vice-
Admiralty Court. He resides at a pretty villa on the North-West Arm,
Halifax, called “Blink Bonnie.” He is a member of the Halifax Club,
the town resort of the elite of Nova Scotia. He married in 1856,
Jane, daughter of the late William Mortimer, of Pictou, by whom he
has a large family of children. One of his sons is in the North-West.
Two are practising law in Halifax. Two of his daughters married sons
of Sir Charles Tupper, viz., Charles H. Tupper, M.P. for Pictou county,
and William J. Tupper, who saw service with the Halifax battalion
during the North-West rebellion. The Chief Justice resides chiefly in
Halifax but occasionally goes on circuit. His judgments are marked
by great liberality and breadth of view. He has befriended many
young men in their struggles to get a profession, and is an
openhearted, openhanded man. No finer specimen of the Pictou
Scotchman could be picked out than “Jim McDonald,” as he was
familiarly, though respectfully called, during his long career, at the
bar and in politics. Hon. Mr. McDonald is a member of St. Matthew’s
Presbyterian Church, Halifax.
Merritt, Jedediah Prendergast, St. Catharines,
Ontario. The subject of this biographical sketch is the eldest son of
the late Hon. William Hamilton Merritt, the well-known pioneer of
the most prominent part of the peninsula of western Canada, and
the originator and principal actor in obtaining the completion of the
Welland and St. Lawrence canals, now connecting the upper lakes
with the Atlantic ocean. Mr. Merritt was born at St. Catharines,
county of Lincoln, on the 1st of June, 1820, and the whole of his life
has been devoted to the material and æsthetical occupations which
make history for the western hemisphere. At an early period he
represented his native country as a student at Cambridge, England,
and upon his return his further representation consisted in being
familiar with English and continental society as it was associated

with scholastic and political economy. His father, by the force of daily
events, was engaged in promoting public important Canadian
interests, whether included in commercial, political, or educational
enterprises; and his son, being well qualified by natural and acquired
attainments, gave these enterprises the advantage of his presence
both at the desk and by his advice in the halls of the legislature. In
1860 he was appointed by a vote of parliament to a position now
known as archivist. He collected the ten thousand folio pages of
historical matter as put upon record by the lives of pioneers in
Canada prior and subsequent to the revolutionary war. Whether,
accordingly, information of large or small moment to families of the
United Empire class or its government, or to families generally of
Canada or the United States be required, it is derivable through the
labors of the gentleman whose name is before us. Such a task as
this brought into requisition varied talents and an unceasing industry
for a number of years, and so suggestive of utility was his report
that parliament renewed an engagement with him. The qualities of
patriotism and generosity characterised his proceedings, for he not
only gave his assistant the appropriation made for the purpose, but
without opposition he permitted the adoption of a title which directs
a searcher after knowledge formulated under his guidance to go to
the Coventry Documents. On the 1st of May, 1845, he was appointed
postmaster at St. Catharines, an office which he retained for a
period of eighteen years. Mr. Merritt has distinguished himself both
in poetry and prose. At an early age, and while at school, a taste for
literature and science distinctly spoke out. And subsequently his
poetical genius shone out in many effusions relating to his own and
other countries, and in such as passed fitting encomiums upon the
noble qualities of patriotism and valor. A poem written as a memento
of the visit of the Duke of Kent to Canada received a distinguished
acknowledgment from the Prince of Wales, his Grace the Duke of
Newcastle, and the Earl of St. Germans. Many odes are also well
known; among them may be found that “On the Opening of Victoria
Bridge” by the Prince of Wales; “Ho, for Manitoba;” “Ontario;” those
on the battles of “Lundy’s Lane”—“Crook’s Mills”—“River Rasin;”—
that read by the Loyal Canadian Society at its anniversary picnic at

Queenston Heights; “The rise and progress of St. Catharines,” in
prose, and concluded in verse. Besides others in number to fill a
volume, which fail to receive a notice here. The public journals of
the day, for many years past, evidence by their columns that Mr.
Merritt’s study and influence upon subjects of administrative policy
and scientific economy have given to the public as much of
instruction as of entertainment. An ingenious historical chart
published by Mr. Merritt met with the approval of the British North
American Historical Society, and commendation from the Prince of
Wales, who sent him an appropriate medal. When decimal currency
was introduced into Canada, Mr. Merritt brought before the
legislature a system of weights and measures known as the “metric.”
With these it is as easy of calculation as that of by tens with money.
The government voted in its favor $50,000 to be used if necessary.
Mr. Merritt’s life has been an unceasing application of advantages
derivable from a patrimony, for the promotion of plans equal to the
dignity and character of Canada; and his family promise to wear his
mantle. He married on the 17th of August, 1864, the eldest daughter
of the late George Prescott, for many years secretary and treasurer
of the Welland canal, by whom he has six sons and two daughters.
Scott, Lieut.-Col. Thomas, Collector of Customs,
Winnipeg, was born in Lanark county, Ontario, 16th February, 1841.
He is of Irish parentage, and has proved in all the departments of
activity in which he has been engaged throughout an unusually
active life that he has inherited the best qualities of the Celtic race
braced with the increased vigor which a fine climate and free
institutions give to Canadians. The subject of this sketch was
educated at the public and high schools of his native county, and at
an early age entered on journalism, and when only twenty he
founded a journal to advocate the principles of the Conservative
party. This journal was the Perth Expositor, which under the
energetic management of its founder soon became a power in the
county. Two years later he married Miss Kellock, second daughter of

Robert Kellock. Born with the instincts of a soldier, young Scott
joined the volunteer corps of his town, at the time of the Trent affair,
and shortly afterwards became its captain. No better commanding-
officer or more enthusiastic militiaman was to be found in the
province than he. When the Fenian raid of 1866 set the country in a
ferment, Capt. Scott was one of the first to ask on behalf of himself
and his company to be assigned for active service. They were
ordered to the St. Lawrence frontier, where they were kept on duty
for four months. For his services he was raised to the rank of major.
He was next called into active service in 1870, when he was placed
in command of a company of the Ontario Rifles, part of Col. (now
Lord) Wolseley’s expedition to the North-West to suppress the first
Riel rebellion. In the toilsome journey Major Scott distinguished
himself by his power of inspiring enthusiasm in the men under his
command, which won such high encomiums from the brilliant young
commander of the expedition. When, just after his return, it became
necessary to send another expedition to the North-West to resist the
threatened Fenian invasion of Manitoba, Major Scott, raised to the
rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel, was chosen to command the force.
A considerable part of the journey through what was then an almost
untrodden wilderness was made in winter, and the men suffered
great hardships, but made their way through to Fort Garry with
wonderfully few mishaps. Liking the country, and appreciating the
opportunities it offered for men of pluck and energy, Col. Scott sold
out his newspaper business and removed to Manitoba. He at once
took a prominent part in public affairs. He first essayed in 1874 to be
elected to the Legislature of Manitoba against the then premier, Hon.
R. A. Davis, but was unsuccessful. Three years later, however, he
became mayor of Winnipeg after a keen electoral contest, but
administered affairs so satisfactorily to the people, during his year of
office, that he was elected by acclamation for a second term. While
still occupying the place of mayor, he was nominated for a seat in
the Legislative Assembly, and was elected. The general election
came on in the following year, and Col. Scott was again successful.
In 1880, the seat in the House of Commons for Selkirk becoming
vacant by Hon. (now Sir) Donald A. Smith being unseated, Col. Scott

resigned his place in the legislature, and ran in the Conservative
interest, defeating Sir Donald by 169 majority. In the general
election of 1882 he again was the Conservative standard-bearer for
Winnipeg, in some respects the most important political division of
the province. He was triumphantly returned and served throughout
that parliament. He was appointed collector of customs in 1887,
which position he still holds. Lieut.-Col. Scott, while always a strong
party man, and almost fiercely active in a political contest, has those
qualities of generosity and kind-heartedness which make men who
are his opponents his friends. He is a man beloved by the people
because of his strong sympathy with them, and his manifest desire
to do all in his power to defend their interests.
Ogden, William Winslow, B.M., M.D., one of the
leading medical practitioners of the city of Toronto, was born in the
township of Toronto, county of Peel, 3rd July, 1837. His parents were
William J. Ogden, an officer in the militia of York county in those
days, and Rebecca Ogden. His father was descended from old
English stock, traceable as far back as the time of Charles the
Second. One of his ancestors, performed distinguished services for
this fickle monarch at a critical period of his career, and received at
his hands in return important recognition, and the coat armor now
held by his descendants. The doctor’s mother was from Ireland, and
has been dead over twenty years, but his father, now in his eighty-
sixth year, is still alive, and resides near Port Credit. Dr. Ogden
received such primary education as the schools of his native place
supplied in those early days, and then went to the Toronto Academy
(since extinct), at that time connected with Knox College. He
afterwards attended, until he was eighteen years of age, Victoria
College, taking the ordinary arts course, and from this until he
reached the age of twenty-two, he attended the Toronto School of
Medicine, taking at the same time several special subjects in natural
science in the University of Toronto. He graduated in honors in
medicine from Toronto University in 1860, and at a later date in the

same science from Victoria College, Cobourg. He then settled in
Toronto, in which city he has ever since successfully practised his
profession. In 1869 Dr. Ogden was appointed lecturer on medical
jurisprudence and toxicology in Toronto School of Medicine, and
lectured on these subjects, and that of diseases of children, from
that date until 1887, when, on the creation of the medical faculty of
Toronto University, he was appointed professor of forensic medicine,
which includes toxicology and medical psychology. He takes a deep
interest in all educational matters, and has been a member of the
public school board continuously since 1866, a period of twenty-two
years. He is always found at his post, is generally a member of all
important committees, for two years was chairman of the board, and
no one rejoices more than the worthy doctor at the great progress
our schools have made since he first began to take an active interest
in their management. Being a public spirited gentleman, he is deeply
interested in everything that helps to improve the social and material
condition of his countrymen. He is a member of the Middlesex lodge,
Sons of England Benevolent Society, and its medical examiner in the
beneficiary department, is president of the Royal Oak Building and
Savings Society, and of the Sons of England Hall Company of
Toronto. For many years, till recently, he was an active member of
the Toronto Reform Association, and for a long time was its vice-
president. Ever since the Brown-Cameron struggle, in 1858, he has
taken an active part in all the political contests held in Toronto, and
had the distinction of being nominated as the Reform candidate for
the Ontario legislature in 1879, but, although he succeeded in
greatly reducing the majority generally polled against the Reform
candidate, he failed to secure his own election. In religion, Dr.
Ogden was brought up in, and has always taken a deep interest in,
the Methodist form of worship, and for over thirty years has held the
office of leader in the Methodist church. He has been a member of
all the general conferences save one, and of the annual conferences
up to the present. He supported and voted for the union of the
several Methodist bodies, and was well pleased when the union took
place. In politics, it is almost needless to say, he is a staunch
Reformer, and has during his long and useful life sacrificed largely in

time and labor to advance the cause he has so much at heart. On
the 27th May, 1862, he was married, to Elizabeth Price, daughter of
the late William McKown, and niece of the late George Price, who
died in 1880.
Burrill, James, Merchant, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is the
second son of William Burrill and Catharine Sullivan, and was born
on the 22nd February, 1844, at Yarmouth, N.S. He received a
common school education, and on the retirement of his father in
1869, succeeded to his business, in company with his two brothers,
and they now trade under the style of William Burrill & Co. The firm
is largely interested in shipping. Mr. Burrill, the subject of our sketch,
is a member of the Board of Trade, and since 1876 he has had a
seat on the Board of School Trustees. In 1880 he was elected
councillor for Milton, and was re-elected to the same position in
1882, 1884, and 1886. He was chosen warden of the municipality of
Yarmouth in 1884, and again elected to the same office in 1886. Mr.
Burrill takes an interest in all social reforms and belongs to the order
of the Sons of Temperance and to the Temple of Honor. In politics he
is a Liberal, and in religion he belongs to the Presbyterian church.
Though comparatively young in years, he has devoted a good deal
of time for the benefit of his fellow-citizens, among whom he is
highly respected as he deserves to be. On the 20th September,
1887, he was married to Jane J., eldest daughter of George H. Lovitt.
Murray, Lieut.-Col. John Robert, Superintendent of
Stores and Paymaster of Military district, No. 9, Halifax, was born at
Halifax, N.S., February 9th, 1836, and is the eldest son of Thomas
Murray of Dartmouth, N.S., (born February 11, 1811), and Caroline
Maria Tapper of Blandford, England (born March 5, 1813), who
married at Halifax, December 6, 1834. Col. Murray was educated at
the National School and the Grammar School (Academy) Halifax, and
early entered into mercantile pursuits. He became interested

eventually in the hardware business as a partner in the firm of
Boggs & Ross, and Thos. Boggs & Co. Colonel Murray served his
native town for three years as an alderman for Ward 1, from 1872,
and was a justice of the peace for the town. As a young man, he
took an active interest in the militia, and this strengthened with each
succeeding year. His connection with the militia of Nova Scotia and
the Dominion covers a period of over twenty-nine years, and for over
a quarter of a century he has held her Majesty’s commissions, viz:—
In the 3rd Queen’s, N.S. militia, second lieutenant, February 5, 1863;
first lieutenant, June 10, 1863; captain, December 11, 1864;
adjutant, July 14, 1865, in the 66th Princess Louise Fusiliers;
captain, June 18, 1869; brevet major, September 20, 1872; brevet
lieutenant-colonel, December 12, 1874. On February 1, 1884, he was
appointed to the district staff, and has since filled the offices of
store-keeper and district paymaster, in a most satisfactory manner.
In religion he is a Presbyterian, being a member of St. Andrew’s
Church. He is a pleasant, agreeable citizen, a good soldier, and a
splendid officer. He was married, September 19, 1861, to Eliza Jane,
eldest daughter of the late James Reeves of Halifax, and has had
issue five children, of whom three survive: James Reeves, who
occupies the position of accountant in the Nova Scotia Sugar
Refinery, Halifax; Charles Grant, gentleman cadet at the Royal
Military College, Kingston, and George William, who is a student at
the Halifax Medical College.
Lawson, Professor George, Ph.D., LL.D., F.I.C.,
F.R.S.C., Halifax, N.S., was born at Newport, parish of Forgan,
Fifeshire, Scotland, 12th October, 1827. He is the only son of Alex.
Lawson, of a family long resident in the county, and his wife,
Margaret McEwen, daughter of Colin McEwen, for many years a civic
officer in the town of Dundee. He was educated at a private school,
and after several years of private study and law-reading, entered the
University of Edinburgh, devoting his attention specially to the
natural and physical sciences—chemistry, botany, zoology, anatomy,

mineralogy, and geology. His studies at Edinburgh extended over a
period of ten years, during which time he was also occupied with
scientific and literary work in connection with the university and
several of the scientific institutions of that city. He occupied the
position of curator of the university herbarium, until it was removed
from the university building to the Royal Botanic Garden, and was
thus early brought into personal contact and correspondence with
the leading botanists of the time. He assisted the professor of
botany, Dr. Balfour, in his class-work and field and mountain
excursions, and, as demonstrator under the professor’s direction,
conducted a select class in histology for advanced students, teaching
the practical use of the microscope and the methods of research in
regard to the minute structure and development of plants. This
class, formed in the Herbarium room at the Royal Botanic Garden, in
Edinburgh, in 1853, was one of the first, if not the first organization
of the kind in Britain corresponding to what are now known as
biological laboratories. This Edinburgh Botanical Laboratory is now
greatly extended and well supplied with recent improvements in
apparatus and implements of research. On the death of Dr. Fleming,
professor of natural science in the New College, Edinburgh, Dr.
Lawson, in conjunction with the late Andrew Murray, continued the
lectures through the winter session. He prepared, and carried
through the press, the catalogue of the library of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh, a work which was thus noticed by Sir R. Christison in
his presidential address: “The council, in noticing the completion of
this important labor, cannot express too highly the sense they
entertain of the services of Dr. Lawson, who has applied himself to
the task put before him with a zeal, diligence, method, and ability
which led the council to congratulate themselves and the society on
the choice which was made in appointing him.” He acted as
secretary for several other societies, being joint secretary with the
late Sir Wyville Thomson, of the Royal Physical Society. Being an
adherent of the Church of Scotland, he was an active member of the
High Church of Edinburgh. In the year 1858 Dr. Lawson accepted the
appointment of professor of chemistry and natural history in Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ontario, and relinquished the several offices

held in Edinburgh. On leaving that city for Canada, a number of the
professors of the university and members of societies, including
Professor Balfour, Sir R. Christison, Sir J. Y. Simpson, Sir J. Gibson-
Craig, Sir A. Douglas Maclagan, Professor Wilson, Sir A. Fayrer, and
others, presented him with a purse of sovereigns and a silver salver
bearing the following inscription—“Presented to Dr. George Lawson
(along with a purse of sovereigns), on the occasion of his departure
from Great Britain, to fill the chair of chemistry and natural history in
Queen’s College, Kingston, Canada, by some of his friends, who
desire thus to testify their high esteem and regard for him, and their
appreciation of the services which he has rendered to science in
Edinburgh. 5th August, 1858.” One of the speakers at the farewell
meeting (father of the professor of botany in the Dublin College of
Science), remarked as a reason for the presentation: “We do not
know what the Canadians may think of you, but we want them to
know what we think of you here.” At Queen’s College, a new
laboratory and class-rooms for medical teaching being in course of
construction, Dr. Lawson organized there a system of practical
laboratory teaching similar to that then in operation by Drs. Wilson
and Macadam at Edinburgh. The college grounds were laid out as a
botanic garden, and the Botanical Society of Canada was formed,
chiefly through his exertions. Whilst at Kingston, he acted as an
examiner at Toronto University. In consequence of the disturbed
state of affairs in Queen’s College, in 1863, Dr. Lawson resigned his
position there, and accepted the professorship of chemistry and
mineralogy in Dalhousie College and University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
then being reorganized, and which he still holds. Soon after his
arrival in Nova Scotia, a board of agriculture was established by the
provincial government, and he was elected secretary. He continued
to discharge the duties of that office from 1864 till 1885, when the
board was abolished, and its duties assumed directly by the
provincial government. His services were retained under the new
arrangement as secretary for agriculture of the province. In 1857 Dr.
Lawson took the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Giessen. In
1863 the University of McGill College, Montreal, conferred upon him
the honorary degree of LL.D. He is a fellow, and at present

president, of the Royal Society of Canada; fellow of the Botanical
and Royal Physical Societies of Edinburgh; of the Institute of
Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland; honorary member of the
Edinburgh Geological and Scottish Arboricultural Societies;
corresponding member of the Royal Horticultural Society of London,
and of the Society of Natural Sciences at Cherbourg; also member of
the following: British Association for Advancement of Science,
American Association for Advancement of Science, Royal Scottish
Society of Arts, Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science, Historical
Society, Ottawa Naturalists’ Club, etc.; associate of the Canadian
Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Lawson’s contributions to scientific
literature have been published chiefly in the transactions of societies
and scientific periodicals, as in “Transactions” respectively of the
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Royal Society of Canada, Nova
Scotian Institute of Natural Science, and in the “Edinburgh New
Philosophical Journal,” the “London Phytologist,” the “Annals and
Magazine of Natural History,” the “Canadian Naturalist,” the
“Chemical News,” etc. A separate work on “Water-lilies,” and one on
“British Agriculture,” were published in Edinburgh. During his
residence there he was a frequent contributor to “Chambers’s
Edinburgh Journal,” and other literary periodicals in London and
Edinburgh, and he edited and rewrote a portion of one of the
editions of “Chambers’s Information for the People.” He married, in
Edinburgh, Lucy, daughter of Charles Stapley, of Vale Cottage,
Tunbridge Wells, and King’s road, Chelsea, who died on 1st January,
1871, leaving two daughters. At Halifax, in 1876, he married
Caroline Matilda, daughter of William Jordan, Rosehall, Halifax, sister
of Rev. Louis H. Jordan, M.A., B.D., Montreal, and widow of George
Alexander Knox, lost in the steamship City of Boston, which sailed
from Halifax harbor in January, 1870.
Allison, David, M.A., LL.D., Halifax, N.S., Superintendent of
Education for the province of Nova Scotia, was born at Newport,
Hants county, N.S., July 3rd, 1836. His father was James W. Allison,

and his mother, Margaret Elder, both Nova Scotians, but descendants
of North of Ireland parents, who had settled in this province. Dr.
Allison’s father and grandfather both occupied seats in the local
legislature. His preliminary education was received at the Halifax
Academy, and the Wesleyan Academy, Sackville, New Brunswick.
After studying four years at the latter institution, he entered the
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., U.S.A., and graduated in
1859. He then became classical instructor at Sackville Academy, and
changed that position in 1862, to take a similar position in Mount
Allison College. In 1869 Rev. Dr. Pickard resigned the presidency of
the college, and the directorate unanimously elected Mr. Allison to
the office, a tribute to his scholarship and character. He occupied the
position of president for nine years, and under him the college work
was very successfully and effectively performed. In the year 1877 he
was appointed to the office of superintendent of education for the
province of Nova Scotia, which position he still holds. Under his
administration the whole system of the public schools of the
province has grown and developed, till it is in the most satisfactory
condition that could be desired or expected. Dr. Allison is a member
of the Methodist church, and was a delegate to the congress of
Methodism held in London, 1881. He married, June 18, 1862,
Elizabeth Powell, of Richibucto, N.B., whose ancestors were loyalists.
Dr. Allison received the degree of B.A., 1859; M.A., 1862; LL.D., from
Victoria College, Cobourg, Ontario, 1873. In 1876 he was appointed
a fellow of the senate of Halifax University. In his position as
superintendent of education he has been broad in his views, and
possesses a thorough appreciation of the high problem which is
being worked out by the educational system of the province under
his guardianship and direction.
Radenhurst, W. H., Barrister, Perth, Ontario, was born at
Toronto on 14th September, 1835. He is the eldest son of the late
Thomas M. Radenhurst, Q.C., who settled in Perth in 1824. His
paternal grandfather, Thomas Radenhurst, came out from England to

America in a semi-military capacity at the time of the revolutionary
war. He was from Cheshire, and his mother was a sister of Lord
Chief Justice Kenyon. When a youth, he was sent up to London to
enter the employ of the banking firm of the Lloyds, in which his
mother, who was related to them, had some interest, but he
preferred to go to America with the troops then leaving for the war.
At the close of the war, being stationed in Montreal, he married Ann
Campbell, a daughter of a United Empire loyalist, one of the first
who settled on the Bay of Quinté. An uncle of hers, Sir John
Campbell, was a distinguished soldier in India. He died at Fort St.
John, in early life, leaving a young family to the care of his widow, a
woman of energy and capacity. She obtained commissions in the
army for her two eldest sons, but her third son, Thomas, she had
educated at Dr. Strachan’s school at Cornwall, and he afterwards
studied law in Toronto. He commenced the practice of his profession
in Kingston, from where he removed to Perth, and built up a
considerable law practice. He married a daughter of Surveyor-
General Ridout of Toronto. He represented the county of Carleton in
the Upper Canada Legislature before the union of the provinces, and
was afterwards, as the nominee of the Reform or Baldwin-Lafontaine
party, an unsuccessful candidate for Lanark county. He was made a
Queen’s counsel in 1849, and acted for a considerable time as Crown
prosecutor in the Eastern and sometimes in the Midland Circuit. He
was offered the judgeship of the Bathurst district, but declined the
honor. He acted as treasurer of Lanark county for several years; and
he died in 1854, in his fifty-first year, leaving a large family. The
following pen and ink sketch, of Thomas M. Radenhurst, written in
November, 1847, by a local scribe, signing himself “Paul Pry,” gives
us a very correct idea of the deceased Queen’s counsel: —
Another personage in this court is entitled to a favourable
notice—Mr. T. M. Radenhurst. This gentleman lounges in his
chair with an easy familiarity when in court—you would imagine
that his soul was away into the fair land of romance, or feasting
with the great jury consultists in his library, or arranging some
circumstances that may have transpired in the domestic or

social circle; but when he stands up, and is roused into action,
you are both startled and pleased to find that all this seeming
abstraction, has no reality—he shows that nothing has escaped
his notice—his mind is found to be stored with important facts,
all bearing upon the point at issue; in the management of these
there is a complete absence of all clap-trap—he does not seek
to terrify and bewilder a witness, but the witness finds that he is
in the hands of a master, and that his only mode of escape is in
giving a plain unvarnished tale. When he addresses the jury, he
unfolds the capacity so valuable in an advocate, that he believes
that there is such a thing as truth, and that he relies with full
confidence for success of his cause upon the truth being told.
The moral bearing of his case is then unfolded, and the
conviction is triumphantly carried and established in every
unprejudiced mind that whatever may be the merits of the suit
the advocate is an honest man.
W. H. Radenhurst, the subject of our sketch, his eldest son, at
present residing in Perth, was educated at Upper Canada College. He
held the office of treasurer of Lanark for sometime after his father’s
death, but afterwards studied law in the offices of the late Mr. Fraser
of Perth, and of Sir Matthew Cameron in Toronto, and was called to
the bar. He was a member of the town council of Perth, and mayor
of the town from 1874 to 1878. He is now revising officer for North
Lanark. In politics he is a Liberal-Conservative, and in religion an
adherent of the Episcopal church.
St. Georges, Rev. Charles, Parish Priest of St.
Athanase, Iberville, P.Q., and Honorary Canon of the Cathedral of St.
Hyacinthe, was born on the 13th March, 1834, at Varennes,
Verchères county, P.Q. He was educated at the College of St.
Hyacinthe, and ordained priest on the 15th August, 1858. The
scenes of his early labors were successively Sorel, Granby,
Abbotsford and St. Charles. Since 1868 he has been in charge of the
Church of St. Athanase, Iberville, where his devotedness, zeal, and

piety have gained for him the universal esteem and affection of his
flock. His finer qualities, however, are known only to a few—his
fellow-priests and the religious under his spiritual direction—by
whom he is regarded as a model worthy of copying, and as a tender
and loving pastor. Father St. Georges has been distinguished
throughout his priestly career for the important part and interest he
has taken in the education question. Finding on his arrival at St.
Athanase, that the good Sisters of the Congregation de Notre Dame
had established a convent there, he spared no sacrifice in aiding and
seconding them in their noble efforts. For a long time it was his
ardent wish to procure for the boys of his parish a suitable
educational establishment; but it was not, however, until 1885 that
this grand project was fully realized. In that year he had the
happiness of seeing opened a Commercial College under the
direction of the Marist Brothers, whose Mother-House is at St. Genis-
Laval, France. The success which has already attended the scheme
does credit to its promoter and principal supporter. At present it has
about two hundred externs and fifty boarders. Father St. Georges’
life has been replete with all those noble virtues and fine qualities so
often met with in the priesthood, and we hope he will be long
spared to bless humanity.
Burrill, William, Merchant, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, was
born at Drumbo, near Belfast, Ireland, on 30th June, 1802. He was
the second son of Henry and Rosanna Burrill, and came to
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in the year 1834, where he at once engaged
in mercantile business which he successfully pursued until 1869,
when he retired. During his lifetime he greatly distinguished himself
for his zeal in the cause of temperance. He took a leading part in the
organization of the first Division of the Sons of Temperance in
Yarmouth, and was the second Grand Worthy Patriarch of the order
in Nova Scotia. He was elected a member of the National Division of
North America in the year 1851. He held the office of warden of the
municipality of Yarmouth in 1857, and the following year was

appointed a justice of the peace. He was a Liberal in politics, and a
Presbyterian in religion. He died at Yarmouth, on the 9th April, 1883,
greatly regretted by his fellow citizens, among whom he was held in
high esteem. He was married to Catherine Sullivan, of Halifax, N.S.,
on the 28th of November, 1839.
Charland, Hon. Justice Alfred N., B.C.L., St. John’s,
Quebec. This gentleman, who was raised to the bench of the
province of Quebec, as one of the judges of the Superior Court, in
November, 1887, was born at Iberville, province of Quebec, on the
28th May, 1842. He is a son of late Joseph Charland, merchant, of
the same place, one of the oldest settlers of the county of Iberville,
province of Quebec, and who was married to Elmire Duquette, of
Chateauguay, sister of the renowned Joseph Duquette, a young
patriot who was executed in 1838, when only twenty-two years of
age, for being one of the “Sons of Liberty,” an order that existed at
the time of the Canadian rebellion. This lamented young martyr for
the cause of liberty was a supporter and bosom friend of the
celebrated Papineau. Judge Charland was educated in St. Hyacinthe
College. He studied the profession of law in the office of the late
Hon. Charles Laberge and L. G. Macdonald, Q.C. (Laberge &
Macdonald), in St. John’s, province of Quebec, and was subsequently
a student in the office of Sir A. A. Dorion, now chief justice of the
Court of Queen’s Bench. He received his degree of B.C.L. from McGill
University, when Judge Torrance, Edward Carter, Q.C., and the Hon.
R. Laflamme were his professors. He was admitted to practice in
September, 1863, and settled at St. John’s, where he edited Le
Franco Canadien for two years, and commenced an extensive
practice with E. S. Paradis, Q.C. In 1878 Mr. Charland was offered
the judgeship of the quarter sessions for Montreal, by the Joly
government, in the place of Judge Coursol, a position which, though
honorable, he declined. The same year he was appointed Queen’s
counsel by the Quebec government, and in 1886 had this distinction
confirmed upon him by the governor-general in council at Ottawa.

He was for several years actively engaged in politics, and fought the
battles of the Liberal party till he joined the Conservatives as a
protectionist and a partisan of the ruling policy of his friend, the
Hon. J. A. Chapleau, then premier of Quebec province. Mr. Charland
has particularly distinguished himself as a criminal lawyer, having for
several years occupied the position of Crown prosecutor in the
district of Iberville, and when not so employed has been entrusted
with the defence in all the important cases which came up before
the assizes of that judicial division. He obtained great success in
several murder cases. He is considered as an authority on criminal
matters. He is also acknowledged to be one of the most eloquent
and forcible speakers in the province of Quebec, and perhaps the
most correct and eloquent of our French orators. As such he has
taken an active and prominent part in numerous political contests
throughout the province, and greatly contributed to the success of
his friends in many electoral strifes. The St. John’s News of the 18th
November, 1887, thus kindly speaks of him on the occasion of his
elevation to the bench: —
News was received in St. John’s last Friday that Mr. A. N.
Charland, Q.C., of this place, had been appointed judge of this
district, in place of the Hon. Mr. Justice Chagnon, resigned.
While general regret was expressed at the resignation of the
latter gentleman, the appointment of Mr. Charland as his
successor gave the most unqualified satisfaction to our
community at large, and even many of those who had recently
been most strictly opposed to him on political ground, were
among the first to congratulate him on his preferment. We do
not hesitate to say that Judge Charland will be an honor to the
bench. Years ago he distinguished himself at the bar as a gifted
pleader and as a clear, incisive, and brilliant reasoner. Along with
a dignified and polished manner, he possesses that savoir faire
which so greatly adds to the charm of an intellectual man, and
is so especially becoming to the occupants of high positions.

Judge Charland first married, in 1865, Aglaë Ouimet, sister of the
Hon. Justice Ouimet. His second marriage was to Mary Lareau, of St.
John’s, eldest daughter of L. Lareau, manufacturer, proprietor of the
St. John’s foundry, and for a long time a councillor of said town.
Lefebvre, Guillaume, Waterloo, P.Q., was born at
Laurenceville, in the province of Quebec, on the 19th of February,
1856. He was educated at the Knowlton academy, afterwards taking
a course at Bryant & Stratton’s business college, in Montreal. He was
in the lumber trade from 1873 to 1877, with his brother, Joseph H.
Lefebvre, and then bought him out. His business as lumber dealer
and furniture manufacturer, at Waterloo, Quebec province, has
continued to increase, and is now in a most prosperous condition,
employing a large number of hands. He was married on the 16th of
June, 1885, to Alphonsine Maynard, of St. John’s, Quebec, and they
have one child.
McIlwraith, Thomas, Hamilton, Ontario, Coal Merchant,
and the leading Ornithologist in Canada, was born in Newton, Ayr,
Scotland, on the 25th of December, 1824. He received an ordinary
education at the schools there, and early in 1846 went to reside in
Edinburgh, where he remained till about the close of 1848.
Returning at that time to his native town, he remained there till the
latter part of 1853, when he arranged to come to Hamilton, Canada,
to superintend the gas works of that city. In October of that year he
married Mary, daughter of Bailie Hugh Park, a friend of his school
days, and he and his bride landed in Hamilton, on the 9th November,
1853, at a point very near the property he has since purchased, and
where he now resides with his family. He remained in the position of
manager of the gas works till 1871, when he bought the Commercial
Wharf, with the coal and forwarding business then being carried on
by John Procton, and has since continued to carry on this business in
the same premises. He has been successful in business, and has

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