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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. 
