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under Gen. Middleton as veterinary officer to the northwest field 

 force, during the Riel Rebellion in 1885. Dr. Rutherford has 

 published a number of monographs on veterinary subjects as 

 well as on horse breeding and the care of horses. His chief 

 recreations are riding and driving, and he is a notable fisher- 

 man in the mountain waters of the northwest. He has supported 

 the chase most heartily and is an officer and member of the 

 Rideau Hunt Club, and the Ranchman's Club of Calgary. 



From 1902 to 1912 he was veterinary director general of 

 Canada, and from 1906 to 1912, livestock commissioner for the 

 Dominion. At the close of the latter year, he resigned his posi- 

 tion to assume the superintendency of agriculture and animal 

 industry with the department of natural resources of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway. After six years of this duty he was appointed 

 member of the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners, with 

 headquarters at the Canadian capital at Ottawa. The variety of 

 interests which he has so successfully maintained throughout his 

 life has served to give him an optimism of viewpoint and a for- 

 ward tendency in thinking that have been of real service to Cana- 

 dian citizenship. 



