THE MONTREAL 



find. " Doctor Charley," who has been at the game all his days, began his 

 hunting in Scotland, and has been a warm supporter of the Montreal Hunt 

 ever since commg to Canada. His official position as Government Inspector 

 has brought him into close touch wath many of the landowners, and he was 

 a very popular Master with them as well as with his Field. His knowl- 

 edge of hounds and hunting is universally admitted, and it was his experi- 

 ence in these matters that led to his election as one of the judges of the 

 English-American foxhound match which took place in the Piedmont Val- 

 ley of Virginia in 1905, where the genial Doctor made himself as popular 

 wath the Virginians as he was with his Field at home. At the end of five 

 years he resigned, and Mr. W. R. Miller was elected in his place. 

 While a horseman rather than a hound man, to begin with, Mr. Miller 

 quickly caught the hound fever, and in 1906, when the first National 

 Hound Show was held at South Lincoln, Massachusetts, was very strong in 

 his support of it, bringing a large entry to the show and using all his influ- 

 ence to make it the success which it proved. Unfortunately he found 

 that the Mastership took too much of his time, and in 1 907 he resigned, 

 his office being filled by the present Master, A. E. Ogilvie, Esq., who 

 had been his right-hand man as Honorary Secretary of the Hunt through- 

 out his Mastership. 



Mr. Ogilvie is in dead earnest, and while he was unable to show any 

 hounds at the National Hound Show in 1 908, he was a large purchaser at 

 the Rugby hound sale in England, securing some hounds, through the kind 

 offices of Mr. T. Butt Miller, M. F. H., from the Atherstone and the 

 Meynell. With plenty of time to devote to the pack and the best of blood 

 to breed from, the next few years under Mr. Ogilvie's regime should show a 

 marked improvement in its quality. 



The Montreal has been very lucky in having but few changes of hunts- 

 men during its long period of existence, thus insuring very little change in its 

 policy of hound-breeding. The first huntsman was Outhet, who was suc- 

 ceeded by Morris, who in his turn was followed by Kennedy ; the latter 

 finally resigning in 1 859, when William Drysdale acted as kennel huntsman 

 and whipper-in to Mr. AUoway, the then acting M. F. H. Mr. Alloway 



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