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in 1879. In 1892 he was Batpnnier of the Quebec Bar. He commanded a battalion of 

 volunteers during the Fenian rising of 1866. He sat in the Dominion House of Commons 

 from 1869 to 1877, when he was called to the Senate. From 1896 to 1901 he was Speaker of 

 the Senate. In 1902 he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada and in 

 1908 Lieut. -Governor of the province of Quebec. SIR HENRI ELZEAR TASCHEREAU, the 

 judge; d. at Ottawa]on April igth. He was born at St. Mary's, Beauce Co., Quebec, on October 

 7, 1836 and educated at Quebec Seminary. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1857, 

 became Q.C. in 1867, Judge of the Superior Court, Quebec, in 1871, Judge of the Supreme 

 Court of Canada in 1878 and Chief Justice in 1902. He was knighted in 1902, and made a 

 Privy Councillor in 1906, when he resigned his Chief Justiceship. From 1861 to 1867 he 

 had represented Beauce Co. in the Canadian Legislative Assembly. He published Criminal 

 Law of Canada and Code Civil Procedure of Province of Quebec. SIR JOHN CARLING, K.C. 

 M.G., the agricultural administrator; b. at London, Ontario, 1828; d. November 6, 1911. 

 Prior to Confederation he had held the positions of Receiver General, 1862, and Minister of 

 Works and Agriculture, 1867-71, in the local government. From 1885 to 1892 he served as 

 Minister of Agriculture in the Dominion Ministry of Sir John A. Macdonald, and to him is 

 due the credit of establishing a number of Experimental Farms throughout the country. 



The following are the more memorable among those who died in 1912: ADAM CARR BELL, 

 formerly Senator; b. 1847; d. at Picton, Nova Scotia, on October 3jfst. He entered the Nova 

 Scotia legislature in 1878. In 1896 he was elected to the Dominion parliament, but was 

 defeated in 1904. EDWARD BLAKE (b. 1833), formerly prominent as a Canadian statesman, 

 whose later career in the Imperial Parliament was of less account; d. at Toronto on March 

 1st (for biography see E. B. iv, 35a). SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHT (see E. B.v, 435), the states- 

 man (b. 1835); d. at Kingston, Ontario, on September 23rd. SIR EDWARD CLOUSTON, Bart., 

 the financier, general manager and vice-president of the Bank of Montreal; b. 1849; d. 

 November 23rd. He had been connected with the bank for nearly 50 years. GEORGE RALPH 

 RICHARDSON COCKBURN, the educationalist and politician; d. in London on January 24th. He 

 was born in Edinburgh on February 15, 1832 and educated at the Royal High School and 

 University there, afterwards going to France and Germany. He went to Upper Canada in 

 1858 and from 1861 was Principal of the Upper Canada College for over twenty years besides 

 being Senator of Toronto University. From 1887 to 1896 he sat in the Dominion House of 

 Commons as Conservative Member for Central Toronto. He was chief Canadian Com- 

 missioner at the Chicago World's Fair, 1893. CHARLES M. HAYS (b. 1856 at Rock Island, 

 111., U.S.A.), president of the Grand Trunk Railway; lost in the "Titanic" in April. For- 

 merly general manager of the Wabash Railway, he was appointed to be manager of the 

 Grand Trunk in 1896, and subsequently president. He was also president of the Grand 

 Trunk Pacific. GEORGE HOLMES, missionary bishop in the North-west; d. in London on 

 February 3rd. He was born in England on November 23, 1858 and educated at St. John's 

 College, Winnipeg. He was afterwards trained at the Church Missionary College, Islington, 

 whence he returned to Canada in 1885. In 1887 he was ordained and worked as a missionary 

 in the North-West Territory till 1905. In 1901-05 he was Archdeacon of Athabasca, in 

 1905-09 Bishop of Moosonee, and from 1909 till his death Bishop of Athabasca. SIR JAMES 

 MACPHERSON LEMOINE, the lawyer and author; d. at Quebec on February 5th. He was born 

 at Quebec on January 24, 1825, and educated there. He was called to the Bar in 1850, but 

 devoted himself chiefly to the writing of historical and ornithological works. In 1894 he was 

 elected President of the Royal Society of Canada. His publications included L'Ornithologie 

 du Canada (1861), Les Pecheries du Canada (1862), Maple Leaves (6 vols. 1863-94), Quebec 

 Past and Present (1876), Annals of the Port of Quebec (1901), etc. JAMES PITT MABEE, the 

 judge; d. at Toronto on May 7th. He was born at Port Rowan, Ontario, on Novembers, 1859 

 and educated at Toronto University. He was called to the Bar in 1882, made Queen's 

 Counsel in 1899 and Judge of the Ontario High Court in 1905. He resigned his position as 

 Judge in 1908 to become Chief Commissioner of the Board of Railway Commissioners for 

 Canada. JAMES MACDONALD, the politician and judge; d. at Halifax, N.S., on October 4th. 

 Born in 1828, he entered the Dominion parliament, and was Minister of Justice in Sir John 

 Alexander Macdonald's cabinet in 1878. Latterly he had been Chief Justice of his province. 

 SIR CHARLES Moss, the judge; d. at Toronto on October I2th. He was born at Cobourg, 

 Ontario, on March 8, 1840 and educated at the Ontario Law School. He was called to the 

 Bar in 1869, became K.C. in 1881 and Judge in 1897. In 1902 he became Chief Justice of the 

 Province of Ontario. He was knighted in 1907. From 1900 to 1906 he was Vice-Chancellor 

 of Toronto University. He published, together with Mr. R. Sullivan, a handbook of Com- 

 mercial Law for Upper Canada. JAMES OBQRNE, a well-known railway official; d. at Van- 

 couver on April 3Oth. He was born at Montreal on September 19, 1862 and was educated 

 at the Montreal Public School. At thirteen years of age he began railway work and rose to 

 be general superintendent of the British Columbia division of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 

 WILLIAM OGILVIE, first governor of Yukon; b. at Ottawa, 1846; d. November I3th. For- 

 merly a Dominion Lands Surveyor and astronomer in the service of the Canadian Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, he carried out important surveys in the Mackenzie and Yukon regions 

 and also in connection with the Alaska boundary. As representative of the Dominion 

 government in the Yukon during the exciting period of the Klondike gold rush, Mr. Ogilvie 



