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in succession to the Hon. Frank Cochrane, the new Federal Minister of Railways and Canals. 

 In 1912 the lieu tenanl -governor, Col. John Morison Gibson, was created a K.C.M.G. 



In New Brunswick, owing to the appointment of the Hon. J. D. Hazen, Premier and 

 Attorney General, to be Federal Minister of Marine and Fisheries, the Hon. J. K. Flemming, 

 Provincial Secretary, was called upon to form a government. Mr. Flemming took the 

 office of Surveyor General, and the Hon. W. C. H. Grimmer was appointed Attorney General; 

 Hon. H. F. McLeod, Provincial Secretary; Hon. John Morrissy, Commissioner of Public 

 Works; Hon. D. V. Landry, Agricultural Commissioner; and the Hon. Robert Maxwell and 

 Hon. John A. Murray, without portfolios. 



New Lieutenant Governors. On August i, 1911 Mr. D. C. Cameron was sworn in as 

 Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, in succession to Sir D. H. MacMillan retired. A 

 native of Vankleek, Ontario, he was elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1902. 



Sir Francis Xavier Langelier, Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Quebec, was 

 appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec in succession to Sir C. A. Pelletier, 

 deceased. Born in 1838, he has held several offices in Quebec Ministries, and sat in the 

 Dominion House of Commons from 1884 to 1898. 



In New Brunswick the term of office of the Hon. L. J. Tweedie expired on March I, 1912, 

 and he was succeeded as Lieutenant Governor by Senator Josiah Wood, who was born at 

 Sackville, New Brunswick, in 1843. 



Judiciary. In succession to Sir Louis Jette, resigned, the Puisne Judge of the Court 

 of King's Bench, the Hon. Horace Archambault, became Chief Justice of Quebec in 1912. 

 Born at L'Assumption, Quebec, in 1857, he was educated at Laval University. In 1888 he 

 was called to the Legislative Council, Quebec, and from 1897 to 1905 was Attorney General of 

 the Province. Appointed a Q.C. in 1889 he was raised to the bench in 1908. 



On the death of Sir Charles Moss, Chief Justice of Ontario, in 1912, he was succeeded by- 

 Sir Wm. Meredith, who was born at London, Ontario, in 1840, and was educated at Toronto 

 University. He was member for London in the Ontario Legislature from 1872 to 1896. 

 He was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1904. 



The Hon. F. W. G. Haultain, formerly Premier of the North-West Territories, was gazet- 

 ted on November 2, 1912, as Chief Justice of Saskatchewan. He was born in 1857 at Wool- 

 wich, England, going to Ontario in 1860. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1882, and 

 to the Bar of the North-West Territories in 1884, being appointed a K.C. in 1902 



The Hon. Francis L. Haszard, K.C., Prime Minister of Prince Edward Island, was 

 appointed Judge of the Canadian Supreme Court on May 4, 1911, being succeeded in the 

 Premiership by the Hon. H. J. Palmer. The new Judge of the Supreme Court was born in 

 Prince Edward Island in 1849 and was admitted to the Bar in 1872. From 1893 to 1900 he 

 was Stipendiary Magistrate and Recorder of Charlottetown. Elected a member of the 

 Provincial Legislative Assembly in 1904, he became Prime Minister of the Province in 1908. 



In April 1912 four new Judgeships were authorised by parliament, and were filled as 

 follows: Mr. Alexander Haggart, ex-M.P. for Winnipeg, to the Manitoba Court of Appeal; 

 Mr. W. L. Walsh, K.C., of Calgary, to the Supreme Court of Alberta; Mr. Hector Chauvin, 

 K.C., of Hull, as Judge of the new judicial district of Labelle; and Mr. Haughton Lennox, 

 M.P., for South Simcoe, to one of the extra Judgeships of the High Commission of Ontario. 



As Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, Mr. Justice Davidson has succeeded 

 Sir Melbourne Tait. The new Chief Justice was born in Huntingdon, Quebec, in 1841; he 

 was educated at McGill University, and was made a Q.C., being raised to the bench in 1887, 

 where he has been a Puisne Judge of the Superior Court. 



Personalia. On October 22, 1912 Major G. W. Stephens resigned the position of Chair- 

 man of the Montreal Harbour Commission. On March i, 1912 Dr. J. G. Rutherford re- 

 signed his position as Veterinary Director General and Live Stock Commissioner. He was 

 appointed Chief Veterinary Inspector in 1902, Veterinary Director in 1904, and Live Stock 

 Commissioner in 1906. On March 31, 1911 Dr. William Saunders, C.M.G. retired after 

 nearly 25 years service as Director of Experimental Farms in Canada, during which timv 

 he showed a keen and enlightened sympathy with all that tended to assist in the development 

 of the agricultural resources of the Dominion. Born in Devonshire. England, in 1836, ho 

 went to Canada in 1848. He is succeeded by Mr. J. H. Grisdale. 



Obituary. The Canadian obituary for 1911 included the following: THOMAS MAYNE 

 DALY (b. 1852), police magistrate at Winnipeg; d. June 24th. He was formerly a member ol 

 parliament, and was Minister of the Interior from 1892 to 1896. DESIRE GIROUARD, thi 

 judge and man of letters; d. at Ottawa on March 22nd. He was born at St. Timothee, Quebec 

 on July 7, 1836 and was educated at Montreal College, afterwards studying law. He stooc: 

 for the Canadian House of Commons for several constituencies from 1872 to 1878, and was 

 finally elected for Jacques Carder in that year. He held the seat until 1895, when he became 

 a judge of the Supreme Court. At the time of his death he was Senior Judge. He published 

 a work on the Civil Laws of Marriage, one on the law of insolvency and one on bills ol 

 exchange; also Lake St. Louis, Old and New, and Chevalier de la Salle. He was an editor ol 

 La Revue Critique. SIR CHARLES ALPHONSE PANTALOON PELLETIER, K.C.M.G., the judge 

 and statesman; d. at Quebec on May 1st. He was born at Riviere Ouelle on January 22, 

 1837 and educated at Laval University. He was called to the Bar in 1860 and became Q.C. 



