PROCEEDINGS FOR 1910 VII 
His death is a national loss; the Geological Survey of Canada in 
particular will feel the adverse effect of his removal; his name will ever 
remain emblematic of all that is honourable, true and upright in a man.” 
(2.)—JAMES Hannay, D.C.L. 
For the interesting notice which follows of our late colleague, Dr. 
James Hannay, we are indebted to the able pen of his fellow member in 
Section II, and fellow-citizen of St. John, N.B., the Venerable Arch- 
deacon Raymond. 
James Hannay was born April 22, 1842, at Richibucto, Kent Co., 
N. B., where his father, the Rev. James Hannay was a Presbyterian 
minister. His mother, Jane Salter, was a native of Hants Co., N.S. 
His father was of an old Scottish family, belonging to Sorbie in Wig- 
townshire, in which county he was born. James Hannay, the critic 
and author, and friend of Thackeray was of the same family. The 
late Dr. Hannay was educated in Scotland and at the St. John, N.B., 
Grammar School. He took up the study of law, and in October 1866, 
was admitted attorney. A year later he was admitted barrister, and in 
March of the same year was appointed official reporter of the Supreme 
Court of the Province, a position that he held until 1873. He published 
two large volumes of reports covering the decisions of the Court during 
this period. The practice of law, however, was not very congenial to 
his taste and he early abandoned it for the profession of journalism. 
From 1872 to 1883 he was associated with the late Hon. Wm. Elder in 
the editorial management of the St. John Telegraph. He then went to 
Montreal and for eighteen months occupied an editorial chair on the 
Montreal Herald. Then for a short time he made the United States his 
home, and was employed in various capacities on the Brooklyn Eagle, 
passing through the stages of general writer, literary editor and asso- 
ciate editor. In 1888 he returned to St. John to assume the editorial 
chair on the staff of the St. John Gazette, and in 1893 accepted the chief 
editorship of the St. John Telegraph, which he held until 1901. His 
election as a member of Section II of this society took place in the 
year 1906. 
A patient and uncommonly industrious student of events and 
policies of an earlier day, and a vigorous and graceful writer on the topics 
of his time, Dr. Hannay’s pen constructed for him a monument that will 
long command attention in his native province. History, poetry, prose, 
editorial work, research—to all of these he turned his hand from time to 
time, and in each he displayed marked ability. Optimistic by nature, 
quick in perception, and a ready writer, he supported that which seemed 
to him for the advantage of his native country. In the field of literature 
he attained success, writing now an easy, flowing and spirited ballad; 
