170 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
Alexander Gauiller. 
BORN 1814, DIED 1904. 
Mr. Gaviller, who for nearly twenty years acted as Curator of 
our Museum with so much care, has also passed over to the great 
majority. He was born in the year 1814 in Lower Clapton, Hack- 
ney, London, and the meeting of the “allied sovereigns” was respon- 
sible for his name. He was educated at the well-known Mill Hill 
School near London. After engaging in business for some years in 
the City of London his health gave away and he came to Canada in 
the year 1844, via New York, from which he travelled by boat and 
stage to the Township of Tecumseh, County Simcoe. He was one 
of the earliest settlers, the deed of his farm being direct from the 
crown. He was also among the very few who were taxed for being 
the owner of a spring carriage. For many years he acted as Justice 
of the Peace, and his decisions, always savoring more of justice than 
of law, were never questioned or appealed against. He acted tooas 
one of the Board of Examiners of those aspiring to the position of 
school teachers, while as a member of the County Council he was 
for long a well known figure in the County of Simcoe. 
As astaunch member of the Anglican Church he was in cone kan 
stant requisition as a speaker at missionary meetings, and with 
hardly one intermission was chosen as lay delegate to the Synod of 
Toronto for seven consecutive years. 
About 1876 Mr. Gaviller came to this city and was soon asked 
to assist the Lady Managers of the Boys’ Home, during the building 
of the present institution on Stinson street. In this and kindred in- 
stitutions he always took an active interest. 
For more than twenty years he was connected with the Hamil- 
ton Scientific Association, during most of that period being the 
efficient and painstaking Curator of the Museum, the specimens 
and objects of interest in which he guarded with the most jealous 
care, and spent much time in attanee and keeping in order the 
various collections. 
By his death we are again reminded that the number of the old 
and steadfast friends of the society are reduced to a very few. 
