BERTRAM WILLIAM DIGBY GILLIES, M. D. 

Dr. Bertram William Digby Gillies has since 1906 been engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine at Vancouver and for the past six years has been pathologist to
the Vancouver General Hospital. He was born at Teeswater, Ontario, June n,
1875, a son of Dr. John and Fannie (Midford) Gillies, the former a native of
Ontario and the latter of England. The father practiced medicine at Teeswater
for more than forty years, but both he and his wife are now deceased. 

In the acquirement of his education Dr. Gillies attended successively the
Harriston high school, the Toronto University and the McGill Medical College,
from which he was graduated in 1898. He was then interne in the Royal Vic-
toria Hospital of Montreal for three years, and subsequently took up post-
graduate work abroad, studying in Germany, Austria, France and England for
two years, during which time he gained comprehensive knowledge of the methods
of many of the most eminent physicians of the old world. Splendidly qualified by
study and practical experience for the onerous and responsible duties of the
profession, he returned to Canada, and was appointed acting pathologist to the
General Hospital at Montreal, in which connection he continued for two years.
In 1906 he came to Vancouver, where he opened an office and has since engaged
in practice. 

On the i6th of April, 1906, at Montreal, Dr. Gillies was married to Miss Mar-
garet Leckie, a daughter of Major R. G. Leckie, of Sudbury, Ontario. They have
two children, Margaret Elizabeth and Mary Eleanor. Dr. Gillies belongs to the
Western Club, the Deutscher Club and the Rotary Club, associations which indi-
cate his appreciation for the social amenities of life. He is imbued in all that he
does professionally by a laudable ambition that prompts him to put forth his best
efforts, and he is making steady advancement in his chosen calling. 

JOHN O. BENWELL. 

John O. Benwell is at the head of the well known house of Benwell, Peart &
Company, importers and wholesale dealers in liquors and cigars at Vancouver.
He was born at Blackheath, Kent, England, on the 9th of August, 1865, and is a
son of John P. and Elizabeth Benwell, the former lately general manager of
Lloyds Bank, Ltd., of London. Liberal educational advantages were afforded
the son, and after attending .Malvern College in Worcestershire, England, he
entered the Bank of British North America, in London, in 1882. His initial
business experience was received in this connection during the succeeding four
years, and in 1886 he came to Canada, attracted by the broader opportunities
of the new world. The year 1888 witnessed his arrival in British Columbia,
and after ten years' residence in this province he established his present business
in 1898, organizing the firm of Benwell, Peart & Company, wholesale dealers in
wines and spirits. They handle the products of the leading distilleries of the
country and imported wines and liquors, and the volume of business transacted
makes theirs one of the large commercial enterprises of the city. 

In 1891 Mr. Benwell was united in marriage to Miss Helen E. Boultbee, of
Vancouver, and they have one daughter, their only son having been drowned 

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in a collision between the Princess Victoria and the Chehalis in Vancouver harbor,
on July 21, 1896. Mr. Benwell finds recreation in hunting and shooting and he
has membership in all athletic clubs and also with the Vancouver, Terminal City
and Country Clubs. 

SANFORD JOHNSON CROWE. 

Sanford Johnson Crowe through association with the contracting business
has taken active part in the substantial upbuilding of Vancouver. He is now
practically living retired. His attention, however, is given to his personal invest-
ments, which include good dividend-bearing properties. As the years have gone
by he has won substantial success, his indefatigable energy and capable manage-
ment enabling him to overcome all obstacles and difficulties and reach a posi-
tion among the men of affluence in Vancouver. He was born at Truro, Nova
Scotia, February 14, 1868, his parents being John S. and Rebecca (Fulton)
Crowe, the former a son of Jasper Crowe, who was a native of north Ireland
but came to Canada about 1810 and settled at Onslow, Colchester county, Nova
Scotia, where he engaged in farming until his death. His son, John S. Crowe,
was born and reared on his father's farm and was apprenticed in his youth to
the carpenter's and shipbuilder's trades at Truro. He afterward followed build-
ing and contracting at that place until 1895, when he retired and came to Van-
couver, where he remained until his death, in September, 1910. He married
Rebecca Fulton, who was descended from one of four brothers of that name
who came from Scotland to America in 1800. Two of these brothers settled in
Nova Scotia and two in New York. Of the two latter one was Robert Fulton,
who in the early part of the nineteenth century invented the first steamboat.
When he advanced his idea he was laughed at for his pains, none believing steam
could be applied to navigation, but with courageous spirit he worked on until
an interested crowd witnessed his first trip up the river to Philadelphia and his
inventive genius and ability then found recognition. George Fulton was one
of the two brothers who settled in Nova Scotia, taking up his abode in Colchester
county, where he rose to a position of prominence. His son and namesake,
George Fulton, Jr., was born in Colchester county, where he spent his entire
life. It was his daughter, Rebecca, also a native of Colchester county, who
became the wife of John S. Crowe and the mother of Sanford J. Crowe. 

In the public schools of Truro, Nova Scotia, Sanford J. Crowe pursued his
education and later was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, at which he served
from 1883 until 1885. Subsequently he was in the employ of Thomas Dunne &
Company, of Truro, with whom he remained until 1888, when he came to British
Columbia, settling at Vancouver, where he took up the carpenter's trade. He
was thus engaged as a journeyman carpenter until 1901, at which time, in part-
nership with Charles H. Wilson, he embarked in the contracting and building
business under the firm name of Crowe & Wilson. They met with success in
that undertaking, many important contracts being awarded them, while various
substantial structures of this city still stand as monuments to their ability and
enterprise. They continued to prosper as the years passed on and conducted an
extensive and gratifying business until 1908, when both parties practically retired
from active connection with the business although the firm remains intact. Both
Mr. Crowe and Mr. Wilson now devote their attention largely to looking after
their common and private interests. The former has become a large owner of
realty and also has other private business and financial connections. As a con-
tractor he saw opportunity for judicious investments and from time to time
added to his holdings until he now derives a gratifying annual income therefrom.
In 1905 he was one of the organizers of the Cascade Steam Laundry Company.
Ltd., of which he is the secretary-treasurer. He also has other financial interests 

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and for the past two years has been vice president and active in the affairs of
the Vancouver Exhibition Association. 

,Mr. Crowe was appointed in July to represent the city of Vancouver on the
board of the Burrard Peninsula Sewerage Commission, also known as the Greater
Vancouver Sewer Commission, which was created by the government at the last
session of the legislature and will begin their work August i, 1913. In speaking
of Mr. Crowe as one of the members of the new commission, Attorney-General
Bowser refers to him as being in a class by himself, and having had years of wide
experience in sewer construction in Vancouver, he is indispensible to the board.
Ever since the provisional board was conceived nearly two years ago Mr. Crowe
has taken a very active part and always been a sincere worker for the establish-
ment of a permanent commission to conduct this much-needed work. 

On the 1 9th of March, 1901, in Vancouver, Mr. Crowe was united in mar-
riage to Miss Annie C. Smythe, a daughter of Richard Smythe, a minister and
farmer of Bathurst, New Brunswick. Mrs. Crowe passed away April 29,
1912, leaving two children, Richard Elmer and Harold Stinson. In politics
Mr. Crowe is a liberal, taking active and helpful part in support of the party,
and since 1909 has served as alderman of the city, his term expiring in 1914. He
belongs to the Terminal City Club and to the Presbyterian church. He has ever
been interested in matters pertaining to the growth, development, welfare and
progress of Vancouver and for a number of years he was a member of the
board of managers of the Vancouver General Hospital. He takes active and
helpful interest in all that pertains to general progress and has been generous in
his support of measures to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfort-
unate. What he has undertaken he has accomplished and while he stands today
among the successful business men of Vancouver he has never concentrated his
attention upon business affairs to the exclusion of other duties, recognizing fully
his obligations to his fellowmen and to the community at large. 

BLANCHARD E. NEVILLE. 

One of the leading productive industries of Vancouver is conducted under the
name of the Dominion Fish Company, Ltd., with Blanchard E. Neville as presi-
dent. Careful management, a utilization of all the opportunities which have come
to him and thorough reliability have been the salient features in his life record
and have gained for him the enviable position which he now occupies in the
business circles of his adopted city. He was born in Nova Scotia, in 1878, a son
of E. H. and Mary (Adams) Neville, both of whom were natives of that province.
About 1893 they removed westward to Winnipeg, where they still reside. 

Blanchard E. Neville was a student at Dalhousie College, in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, where he was graduated with the class of 1901. He then went west to
Winnipeg and entered the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company,
spending the first year in the office of the accountant of the sleeping and dining
car department, and afterward going upon the road as inspector in the same
department. He traveled from Halifax to Vancouver and continued in that
position until April, 1908, when he retired to engage in business on his own
account. He bought out the Dominion Fish Company, Ltd., of which he is
president and manager, and although this business came into his possession only
in 1908 it had been established for many years and is the oldest wholesale fish
enterprise in British Columbia. By far the greater part of the output is shipped
outside of the province, being distributed throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba and Ontario, while shipments are made as far east as Toronto. The
first carload of fish to leave British Columbia was sent out by this company in
1913 a load of fresh halibut. They also supply the majority of retail markets
in Vancouver and the province and have the largest fish smoking plant on the
Pacific coast, in the busy season smoking from nine to ten tons of fish per day. 

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These are packed in their large plant under the registered name of the Dominion
Brand and are shipped through brokers to all countries. The business has grown
year by year until it has reached mammoth proportions, making it one of the
chief productive industries of the city. In 1910 Mr. Neville was joined by his
brother, W. S. Neville, formerly of Winnipeg, who is now secretary of the
company. The plant is splendidly equipped for carrying on the work in all of its
departments and a large force of employes assist in salting, smoking and pre-
paring the fish for the market. 

On the 8th of April, 1909, Mr. Neville was married in Vancouver to Miss
Margaret Bunn, a daughter of Alfred Bunn, a well known pioneer of this city
who came from Manitoba. They have one child, Edwina. In politics Mr.
Neville is a conservative, but has never taken an active part in political affairs.
He is interested in the game of baseball, and for two years was manager of the
Winnipeg baseball team. He belongs to Vancouver Lodge, B. P. O. E., and to
the Canadian Order of Foresters, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist
church. He is a member of the Commercial Club. His interests in life are varied
and he is always loyal to any cause which he espouses. His advancement in the
business world is the merited reward of ability and fidelity, and indicates what
may be accomplished when energy and determination are basic elements in one's
career. 

JOHN McLELLAN MACKINNON. 

British Columbia is endowed with splendid natural resources, and conse-
quently there has come to this section of the country a class of enterprising men
who recognize the advantages here offered and in the capable control of busi-
ness affairs have not only contributed to individual success but have been factors
in the substantial improvement and upbuilding of the country. To this class
belongs John McLellan Mackinnon, investment broker of Vancouver, who has
labored along many lines that have been of substantial benefit to this section of
the country. He was born on the island of Eigg in Inverness-shire, Scotland,
September i, 1863, a son of Charles and Mary (McLellan) Mackinnon. The
father was connected with the geodetic survey department of the admiralty for
a number of years, or until his retirement from active life. 

In the acquirement of his education John M. Mackinnon attended the public
schools and the Watts Institute of Edinburgh, and when a young man of twenty-
two years arrived in British Columbia in 1885. ^ n the fall of that year he went
to Oregon, in the United States, where he engaged in sheep ranching for six
years, and then returned to this province and initiated his career in the land and
timber business in which he has continued to be actively interested to the present
time. In 1891 he purchased Hardy island comprising one thousand six hundred
and ninety-nine acres which he devoted to the preservation of game, being one
of the first men in the province to promote the protection of game on private
preserves. This island remains in his possession to the present time and is still
devoted to its original purpose. Mr. Mackinnon has been actively connected
with the development of mines, timber and the natural resources of the country
generally for the past twenty years and his labors have been an element in the
substantial growth of the province, while at the same time his careful control
of his individual interests has brought the success which numbers him among
Vancouver's substantial residents. 

In 1897 he erected the Mackinnon building in Vancouver which was the
first office building of any importance to be built in that city and which, at that
time, was considered the most modern building in the city. Besides his personal
interests, Mr. Mackinnon has been a director in numerous business companies
and corporations. In 1906 he organized the business and built the plant of the
Canadian Pacific Pulp Company, Ltd., at Swanson Bay, British Columbia, and 

JAMES LOW. 

James Low has resided in Vancouver for but a comparatively brief period yet
is well known through his connection with one of the oldest established business
enterprises of the city, being treasurer of the British Columbia Permanent Loan
Company. He was born at Uxbridge, Ontario, and in the acquirement of his edu-
cation attended the public schools there and the high school at Markham, Ontario, 

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from which he was graduated. Subsequently he took up the study of telegraphy
and began operating when very young, as his father was station master at
Uxbridge. The father suffered a prolonged illness when the son was fifteen
years of age and never recovered, passing away before James Low reached the
age of sixteen. As he was serving as substitute operator and station master dur-
ing his father's absence he was given that position upon his father's death. How-
ever, he soon resigned and entered the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway Com-
pany, which he represented for ten years in the position of train dispatcher. On
the expiration of that period he became secretary and manager of the Victoria
Loan & Savings Company of Lindsay, Ontario, which position he held for sixteen
years, making a most creditable record in that connection as his long continuance
with the company plainly indicates. He resigned this position in the spring of
1912 to become treasurer of the British Columbia Permanent Loan Company
at Vancouver and has since performed the duties incumbent upon him in that posi-
tion. While connected with the city for only a little more than a year he has
already gained a wide acquaintance and his sterling worth has won for him favor-
able recognition. 

Mr. Low has one son, Donald, who is now a student at McGill University. In
politics Mr. Low is a conservative in principles, yet follows an independent policy
voting according to the dictates of his judgment, unbiased by party ties. He held
membership with the Masons and the Odd Fellows in Ontario and he belongs to
St. John's Presbyterian church, in the work of which he is actively and helpfully
interested, being now superintendent of the Sunday school. Starting out in life
for himself at an early age, he has made continuous progress and the ability which
he displays promises advancement for the future. 

STEPHEN NICHOLSON-JARRETT. 

Stephen Nicholson- Jarrett, who since January i, 1907, has been serving in a
capable, forceful and far-sighted way as city building inspector of Vancouver,
owes much of his success in the conduct of his responsible office to his many
years of active connection with the contracting and building business, to the
knowledge which he has of the building trade in all of its' various ramifications
and to the excellent organizing and administrative ability which has dominated
and directed all the activities of his business career. He was born in Bridlington,
Yorkshire, England, on the 2/th of December, 1847, ar >d is a son of Benjamin
and Hannah (Wilson) Nicholson-Jarrett, both natives of Yorkshire. The
father came to Canada in 1850 and settled near Toronto, in York county, Ontario,
where he engaged in farming until 1857, when he moved to Queen's Bush, now
Wellington county, where he continued to reside until 1887. In that year he
retired from active business life and moved to Calgary, Alberta, where he died
in June, 1908, at the age of eighty-nine. He had survived his wife since 1903,
her death occurring in Calgary when she was seventy-nine years of age. 

Stephen Nicholson-Jarrett acquired his education in the public schools of
Ontario, and after laying aside his books was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade,
serving his term in Wellington county, where he was later engaged in the con-
tracting business on his own account for a period of fifteen years. In 1884 he
went to Calgary, Alberta, then merely a tent town, but offering unlimited oppor-
tunities to a far-sighted and discriminating business man. There Mr. Nicholson-
Jarrett entered into partnership with Hon. W. H. Gushing, and they entered the
contracting business, erecting in the fall of 1885 and the spring of 1886 the
first sash and door factory west of Winnipeg, an enterprise which Mr. Gushing
is still successfully conducting. The association was dissolved in 1888, and in
January of the following year Mr. Nicholson-Jarrett came to Vancouver, where
he has since remained an honored and deservedly respected citizen. He resumed
his former occupation here, but in the following summer the contractors experi- 

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enced their first labor troubles, and they proved to be so severe that he turned
his attention to another line of work, accepting a position as superintendent of
the sash and door factory belonging to George Cassady & Company. After seven
years' connection with this concern he resigned his position, and in 1896 became
superintendent of the factory operated by the Vane Sash & Door Company, con-
tinuing to do able, constructive and reliable work until .the ist of January, 1907,
when he accepted the position of city building inspector of Vancouver, an office
which he still holds. Since he entered upon his duties practically all the new
and modern residences, public buildings and business structures which make
this city one of the finest and most attractive in this part of the Dominion, have
been erected, the last building completed before he assumed control having been
the Molson's Bank on Hastings street, now one of the older and smaller of the
city's business blocks. Each year of his able service has witnessed a substantial
increase in the number of building permits issued and in the total value of the
buildings erected, as is evidenced by the fact that in 1907, when he took office,
one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three permits were granted, the value
of the buildings being five million six hundred and thirty-two thousand seven
hundred and forty-four dollars, as against three thousand two hundred and
twenty-one permits issued in 1912, for buildings aggregating in value nineteen
million three hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-two
dollars. The city of Vancouver began to grow in a rapid and noticeable fashion in
the year 1902 and that same year witnessed the remarkable increase in the
number of buildings erected an increase which has steadily continued since that
time, without any of those periods of depression or utter stagnation so common
in other Canadian cities and in the cities of the United States. Probably no other
community on the North American continent can boast such a splendid record and
a great deal of credit for this gratifying state of affairs is due to the systematic,
practical and discriminating labors of the present building inspector, who has
introduced many needed reforms and changes in methods of operation in the
building department, and who in the six years of his service has ably carried
forward the work which he found so well begun. All during his active career he
has been interested in building and in the promotion of building activity, and he
is now in the sixteenth year of his service as president of the Pacific Building
Society, of which he was one of the founders. This is a cooperative building
association, founded on the fact that every man is better off from both a social
and financial standpoint when he owns a home of his own, and it has been of
material assistance to hundreds of people of Vancouver by making it possible
for them to purchase land and erect a house at a small initial expense. Mr.
Nicholson- Jarrett is also vice president of the Masonic Temple Company, owners
of the Vancouver Masonic Temple, and he has held that office since the organ-
ization of the company. 

Mr. Nicholson-Jarrett has been twice married. In Wellington county, Ontario,
on the 9th of June, 1873, he wedded Miss Catherine Ghent, a native of that
province of old United Empire Loyalist stock. She died in 1904, and on the
1 8th of October, in the following year, he married in Vancouver, Miss Alma Van
Aken, a daughter of James H. Van Aken, a pioneer of Coldwater, Michigan,
where Mrs. Nicholson-Jarrett resided previous to her marriage. 

Mr. Nicholson-Jarrett has always given a stanch allegiance to the liberal
party, but has never been active in politics, preferring to devote all of his atten-
tion to his business affairs. The office which he now holds is the only official
position in which he has ever served, but the excellent record he has made indi-
cates that his political inactivity has been a great loss to the community at large.
He has extensive and important fraternal affiliations, being especially prominent
in the Masonic order, which he joined in Calgary in 1885, and in which he has
attained the thirty-second degree. He is past master of Mount Hermon Lodge,
No. 7, A. F. & A. M., and past first principal in Chapter No. 98, R. A. M. He is a
member of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been trustee
for nearly twenty years, his upright and honorable life being at all times in 

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harmony with his professions. In business life and in official relations he has
made excellent records, both characterized by far-sighted, discriminating and
useful work and during the period of his residence in Vancouver he has made
tangible and substantial contributions to its growth and development. 

ROBERT SCOTT LENNIE. 

Robert Scott Lennie, a member of the British Columbia bar since 1898 and
a practitioner in Vancouver since 1910, has lived in this province for twenty-
seven years, arriving here when a youth of eleven. He was born at Smith Falls,
Ontario, August 16, 1875, and is a son of the Rev. Robert Lennie, B. D., and
Catherine (Harcus) Lennie, the former having been a minister at Smith Falls,
Ontario, at the time of the birth of their son. At the usual age Robert S. Lennie
entered the public schools and as the family removed from place to place he
continued his education in Ontario, California and British Columbia, arriving in
this province in 1886. His literary course was supplemented by preparation for
the bar, to which he was called in 1898. He immediately located for practice
at Nelson, British Columbia, becoming a member of the firm of Elliot & Lennie,
while later the firm was Lennie & Wragge. This connection was continued
until 1912, at which time the partnership was dissolved. In the previous year
Mr. Lennie had come to Vancouver and began practice alone here, although still
a member of the firm of Hamilton, Lennie & Wragge at Nelson, which was
formed when he moved to Vancouver. In 1911 he was joined at Vancouver
by J. A. Clark, and they have since engaged in the general practice of law under
the firm name of Lennie & Clark. Close reasoning, analytical power and unfalt-
ering industry in the preparation of his cases have been the potent elements in
gaining for Mr. Lennie the creditable position which he now occupies as a prac-
titioner in Vancouver. He is also widely and favorably known in business circles,
being an officer in various corporations, especially having to do with mining and
financial interests. He is president of the Slocan Star Mines, Limited; a direc-
tor of the Forest Mills of British Columbia, Limited; of the Kootenay Bonanza
Mines, Limited ; a director of the Silver King Mines, Limited ; the Colonial Trust
Company, Limited; the New British Columbia Lands, Limited, and many other
corporations. All this indicates his faith in the province and its natural resources
and the activity he is displaying in the development of the northwest. 

Aside from this Mr. Lennie is very active in political circles. He is a con-
servative and was president of the Nelson (B. C.) Conservative Club from 1904
until 1910, while since 1908 he has been president of the Kootenay District
Conservative Association, comprising nine ridings. His interest in politics is
that of a public-spirited citizen, who desires the welfare of his country, and not
that of the politician, who seeks personal recognition and gain. In fact, Mr.
Lennie was tendered and refused the nomination for mayor of Nelson and also
for the provincial and Dominion houses. Appointed by order of the lieutenant-
governor in council, he acted as chairman of the British Columbia Fire Insurance
Commission, the findings of which were reported in 1910. He is a bencher of
the Law Society of British Columbia, representing the Kootenay district for 

six years. 

On the igth of October, 1898, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Mr.
Lennie was married to Miss Edith Louise Douglas, daughter of Benjamin and
Julia A. Douglas, pioneer settlers of the northwest, her father having been one
of the originators of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company. The
children of this marriage are Robert Douglas, Gerald Scott and Edith Beatrice
Catharine. Mr. and Mrs. Lennie are members of the Presbyterian church and
in club circles he is well known. He belongs to the Nelson Club of Nelson,
British Columbia, and the Union Club of Victoria, while in Vancouver his
membership is with the Vancouver, Jericho Country, Shaughnessy Heights Golf, 

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Commercial and Progress Clubs. These organizations not only have as their
object social interests and pleasures but also are concerned with plans for the
improvement and benefit of the city, all of which Mr. Lennie heartily indorses
and as time permits he gives thereto his hearty cooperation. The family resi-
dence is on Matthews avenue, Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver, British
Columbia. 

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In 1912 Mr. Crandall erected a handsome apartment house in the eleven hun-
dred block on Eleventh avenue, which is a decided departure from the usual
apartment building. It stands on a spacious lot, with broad lawns in front and
rear, and contains four handsome apartments, commanding a beautiful view of
the Sound. Every modern convenience is there found and ideas of utility and
beauty are harmoniously blended with the result that the apartments are largely
ideal from every point of view. In addition Mr. Crandall also owns a number
of houses in the best residential section of Fairview, one of which he occupies.
He has made judicious investments in real estate and is thus adding annually to
his income aside from his business as manufacturers' agent. 

In Chipman, New Brunswick, on the 6th of June, 1883, Mr. Crandall was
united in marriage to Miss Ida G. King, a daughter of Senator G. G. King. They
are parents of eight children: Ida May, at home; Hazel Claudia, the wife of
A. G. Carpenter, of Nelson, British Columbia; Nellie G., the wife of I. H. Will-
son, of Nanaimo, British Columbia ; Ermengarde and Eugene, Greta, Horace K.
and Esther H., all at home. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crandall are prominent and
valued members of the First Baptist church of Vancouver. Mr. Crandall has
been identified with the denomination for the past thirty years, and while in the
east was for twenty years an officer in the church. His wife, active in various
departments of the church work, is now president of the Woman's Mission Cir-
cle ; she is also president of the West End Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and is an interested and zealous worker in its several departments. 

Mr. and Mrs. Crandall belong to that class of citizens whose influence is
always on the side of reform, progress and improvement, or right and justice.
He has led a busy and useful life and since his removal to the west has so utilized
his opportunities and directed his labors as to gain for himself a most creditable
position in business circles in British Columbia. 

WILLIAM CHARLES MACBETH. 

William Charles Macbeth is a partner in the firm of Macbeth & Brown, con-
ducting a real-estate brokerage business. They are also general insurance agents,
conveyancers, collectors, etc., and their clientage is extensive. Mr. Macbeth is
a native of Scotland, his birth having occurred at Buckie, Banffshire, May 13,
1879. His parents were James and Jessie (Anderson) Macbeth. The former
came to Canada from Buckie, Scotland, in 1891, and settled in New Westminster,
British Columbia, where he followed the carpenter's trade until his death in
1900. 

In the schools of Scotland William C. Macbeth began his education and fol-
lowing the removal of the family to Canada he continued his studies at New
Westminster. He was but a boy in years, however, when he entered business
circles, since which time he has been dependent entirely upon his own resources,
so that his success is the merited reward of labor and capable management. He
became a clerk in a grocery store in New Westminster and afterward removed
to Vancouver, where he entered the employ of Charles Anderson in the grocery
business, continuing with that house for three years. He was next employed
in the grocery store of John Geddis for a time and subsequently was in the em-
ploy of William Walsh, a grocer, with whom he continued for four years. All
this time he was actuated by the laudable desire of one day engaging in business
on his own account and carefully saved his earnings until his industry and econ-
omy had brought to him sufficient capital to enable him to start out for himself.
It was in 1903 that he became a partner in the firm of McLeod, Macbeth & Com-
pany in the ownership and conduct of a dry-goods store at the corner of Main
and Hastings streets. He was a factor in that business until February, 1911,
when he entered into the real-estate and general financial brokerage business in
association with William Brown and William H. Brown under the firm name 

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of Macbeth & Brown. This firm succeeded to the business of Mutrie & Brown,
which was established in Vancouver in 1888. In addition to conducting a gen-
eral real-estate brokerage business they are general insurance agents, convey-
ancers and collectors. From the beginning the enterprise has proven a profitable
one. Their business is carefully systematized and capably managed in each de-
partment and they are not only familiar with the property upon the market and
accurate in placing valuations thereon but are also representatives of a number
of the most substantial insurance companies and are successful in conveyancing
and collection work. 

On the ist of January, 1905, Mr. Macbeth was united in marriage to Miss
Beatrice Hamilton, a daughter of George Hamilton, of Vancouver, and they
have one child, Isabelle Beatrice. Mr. Macbeth holds membership in the Presby-
terian church and also with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Royal Arcanum. In politics he is independent, preferring to vote as his judg-
ment dictates without regard to party ties. Moreover, he has taken no active part
in politics, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs.
Gradually he has worked his way upward and the loyalty which he displayed
as an employe has been manifest in his devotion to the best interests of his
clients. In all of his dealings he is strictly reliable and his prosperity has been
based upon energy and enterprise. 

HON. JOSEPH MARTIN, K. C, M. P. 

No history of the legal profession in Vancouver or of legislative proceedings
in British Columbia would be complete without reference to the Hon. Joseph
Martin, long an able and distinguished member of the bar of that city and one
who has left the impress of his individuality upon the history of his province in
shaping and promoting as well as in administering its laws. He was born in
Milton, Ontario, September 24, 1852, a son of Edward and Mary Ann (Fleming)
Martin. His grandfather, Jasper Martin, was a native of the county of Cum-
berland and with his wife and family sailed for the new world about 1818, cast
ing in his lot with the first settlers of Milton, Ontario. Edward Martin was bon
in Canada about .1820 and in early life turned his attention to the business of mer
chandising. When his son Joseph was a young man the father removed to Mich-
igan, where he engaged in farming. He was active in public affairs during hii
residence in Milton and served for one or two terms as its mayor. His death
occurred in 1885. 

His son, Joseph Martin, pursued his education in the public schools of Milton,
Ontario, and in the Michigan State Normal School of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and
the Provincial Normal School at Toronto. He was graduated from the last named
in a class of one hundred and fifty members and has Certificate A. He passed the
examinations for the second year in the arts course at the Toronto University.
In early life he followed the profession of teaching in the public schools near
Ottawa but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor and
turned to the study of law with the intention of making its pract'ice his life work.
In 1882 he went to Manitoba and in that year was called to the bar. He opened an
office and continued in practice at Portage la Prairie and at Winnipeg until 1897.
He was not only accorded a liberal clientage but also became a leading and in-
fluential factor in provincial circles. He sat for Portage la Prairie in the provin-
cial legislature from 1883 until 1892 and was attorney general of Manitoba under
the Greenway administration from 1888 until 1891. He unsuccessfully con-
tested Selkirk for the house of commons in the general election of the latter year
but sat for Winnipeg from 1893 until 1896. 

The following year Mr. Martin removed to Vancouver, where he opened a
law office, continuing in active practice in that city until 1909. Again he became
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legislature from 1898 until 1903. He was likewise attorney general for British
Columbia in 1898 and 1899 and was premier and attorney general of the province
from March until June, 1900. In 1902-3 he was leader of the opposition. He
unsuccessfully contested Vancouver for the house of commons as an independ-
ent liberal ; but whether in office or out of it has exerted a marked influence on
public thought and action because of his broad and liberal interpretation of the
laws and his statesmanlike grasp of affairs. 

In 1909 Hon. Joseph Martin became a resident of England and in May of
that year was defeated for southwest Warwickshire at a by-election. Since Janu-
ary, 1910, he has sat for East St. Pancras in the house of commons. While
attorney general of Manitoba he introduced and secured the passage of the famous
school measure abolishing the separate schools set up in 1871 and establishing in
lieu thereof the national common schools. He represented the provincial govern-
ment before the privy council when the legality of the measure was being passed
upon. In the house of commons he opposed a proposal to hand over the improve-
ment of the Red river to a private company and also the remedial bill. He believes
in the abolishment of the house of lords and in unrestricted reciprocity between
Canada and the United States. Another factor in his influential work in behalf
of provincial interests was the Vancouver Guardian, of which he was editor and
owner in 1907. 

In September, 1881, Mr. Martin was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth
Jane Eaton, the widow of George W. Eaton, of Ottawa, and the second daughter
of the late Edward Reilly, of Richmond, Ontario. On the I3th of February,
1913, Mrs. Martin, after an illness of several months, passed away and was laid
to rest in Ottawa. Mr. Martin is in sympathy with all those improvements and
projects which work for the betterment of the individual and for the community.
He belongs to the National Liberal Club of London and also to the Royal Auto-
mobile Club of London, to the Vancouver Club and the Terminal City Club of
Vancouver. He has been characterized by the Victoria World as "an able and
lucid speaker," and by the Toronto Globe as "a natural born politician." Like all
who are most prominent in political circles, he has had strong opposition but has
ever adhered closely to the course which he has believed to be right, standing
strongly in support of principles which he deems most essential in good govern-
ment. He is widely known in eastern, central and western Canada and upon all
vital questions keeps abreast with the thinking men of the age, being recognized
as one who has done much to mold public thought and action and promote
progressive political activity. 

HUGH MCDONALD. 

The lumber and timber industry of British Columbia finds in Hugh McDon-
ald a man who has in an influential way been connected with that business for
a number of years and is also identified with numerous other corporations which
have greatly promoted the commercial growth of the province. He was born
in Oban, Argyleshire, Scotland, on March 10, 1860, and is a son of Alexander
and Ann (McCall) McDonald, the former a native of Callander, Scotland, and
the latter of the island of Mull, that country. Alexander McDonald was prom-
inent in industrial circles of his native land as proprietor of a woolen mill and
also owned a valuable estate of five hundred acres there. In 1880 he sold his
holdings and came to British Columbia, his son Hugh having preceded him there
by about two years. On his arrival here the father located on a ranch of a
thousand acres, which was then owned by our subject and is situated at Lake
Nipissing, where the father passed away at the advanced age of eighty years. 

Hugh McDonald was reared under the parental roof and acquired his educa-
tion at the Free Church Academy in Edinburgh, Scotland, completing his school-
ing in 1875. He was then apprenticed to the carpenter's trade for a five years' 

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BRITISH COLUMBIA 345 

apprenticeship, his compensation being five shillings per week and board. Be-
coming, however, discontent with the slow prospect of success, he ran away
after having remained for three years in that connection and came to Canada,
locating in the Nipissing district, where he took up six hundred and forty acres
of land in his own and his brother's name. His aggressive spirit and energy
showed itself early, for he set out with the decision to improve his fortune, which
is rare in one so young. Building a house, barn and other farm buildings, he
purchased stock and gave his sole attention to his farming activities, laying there-
by the corner stone to his present fortune. This ranch today is one of the most
valuable in that part of the province, comprising about twelve hundred acres and
is now owned by our subject's brother Alexander, Hugh McDonald having
transferred the ranch to his father on the latter's arrival here. Discontinuing
farm work, he then engaged in work for J. R. Booth, the now well known mil-
lionaire lumber king of Ottawa and the largest timber land holder in Canada.
Mr. McDonald remained with Mr. Booth for the period of eleven years, begin-
ning at the bottom rung of the ladder, until he became superintendent of the
Timiscamaugue branch of Mr. Booth's extensive lumber interests. At the end
of that period Mr. McDonald came to British Columbia with the late John
Wilson, taking charge of the logging and brush work of the Brunette Saw Mills
and subsequently becoming a stockholder in the concern. His connection with
that company comprises the years from 1890 until 1908, Mr. McDonald having
been made president of the company in 1896 and continuing in that capacity
from that time until he severed his connection with the firm in 1908. Selling his
holdings, he then built the Barnett & McDonald mills on Lulu Island, which
were unfortunately destroyed by fire before their completion in 1910. He then
purchased the Independent Shingle Mills in New Westminster but has also dis-
posed of this interest, selling out in 1912. Mr. McDonald still owns various
valuable timber tracts throughout the province and is connected with other indus-
trial and commercial enterprises, serving at present as president of the Pacific
Chocolate Company, Ltd., of New Westminster; as trustee of the New West-
minster Trust Company; as president of the British North America Securities
Corporation, and as president of the People's Trust Building Company. 

In 1896 Mr. McDonald was married to Miss Sophia Victoria Bowes, a daugh-
ter of John Bowes, of Lanark, Ontario, and a niece of Senator Peter McLaren.
To this union were born five children, of whom three survive : Hugh Alexander,
Roland Eden and Ivan Douglas. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald are devoted members
of the Presbyterian church. Fraternally he is a member of Royal City Lodge,
No. 3, I. O. O. F. ; an apprenticed member of King Solomon Lodge, No. 17,
A. F. & A. M. ; and a member of Royal Lodge, No. 6, K. P. As the years have
brought him prosperity he has become recognized as one of the potent forces in
industrial expansion in New Westminster and is highly respected and esteemed
for what he has done in promoting general advancement. The prosperity which
has come to him is well merited, for it has been brought about by honorable
methods only and has been made possible by characteristics which are worthy
of the highest commendation. Mr. McDonald has not only witnessed the won-
derful changes which have converted a practically uninhabited country into a
prosperous populated district but has been a helpful and cooperant factor in
bringing about the transformation. 

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ware business under the firm name of Macpherson & Teetzel and a year later Mr.
Teetzel purchased his partner's interest, since which time he has been sole pro-
prietor, although the business is still conducted under the original firm name. The
business has steadily grown, and in addition to its extensive trade in shelf and
heavy hardware represents, as manufacturing agents, the William Buck Stove
Company, Ltd., of Brantford, Ontario. The firm handles all kinds of hardware
and household utensils, selling only to the wholesale trade, .and as the years have
passed on the business has constantly grown until it has now assumed large pro-
portions. In January, 1912, Mr. Teetzel organized the Pacific Rubber Tire &
Repair Company, Ltd., of Vancouver, of which he is the president and manager.
The plant is located at No. 1259 Granville street, and they are agents for the
Firestone tires. 

In January, 1906, at Revelstoke, British Columbia, Mr. Teetzel was united in
marriage to Miss Grace Love, of Ontario, and they have four daughters: Grace
Eileen, Audrey, Jean Julia and Flora. The parents are members of St. John's
Presbyterian church and Mr. Teetzel is also a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. He belongs to the Vancouver Auto Club, Vancouver Commer-
cial Club and the Board of Trade, and is a cooperant factor in various measures
and movements which are factors in the public welfare. In his business life he
is determined a'nd energetic. His plans are well formulated and carefully exe-
cuted and he carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.
Although, one of the younger merchants of the city, he has steadily advanced and
has made for himself an enviable position in commercial circles of Vancouver. 

GEORGE CLIFFORD HINTON. 

George Clifford Hinton, of Vancouver, was connected with the construction
of the first street railway and electric lighting system of the province, and is
today actively and successfully engaged in business as head of the firm of George
C. Hinton & Company, consulting electrical engineers and dealers in and manu-
facturers of electrical and steam machinery. Other corporations have also
profited by his cooperation, his sound judgment and his enterprising spirit, his
business activities haying constituted an important element in general develop-
ment in this section of the country. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, July 27,
1868, and is a son of Robert and Lila (Hyde) Hinton, the former extensively
engaged in farming and in the timber business in Ontario. The father came
to Canada in 1810 from Belfast, Ireland, settling in Carleton county, near
Ottawa, Ontario. He engaged in farming, acquiring large tracts of land, por-
tions of which were devoted to general agricultural pursuits, in addition to
which he had extensive timber and lumber interests. 

George C. Hinton began his education at the usual age as a public-school
pupil of Ottawa, and in the Collegiate Institute of that city continued his studies
until 1882, when he made his initial step in the business world as an appren-
tice in the boiler making and machine department of Fleck's Machine Works at
Ottawa, completing the full term of his indenture three years. In 1886 he
entered the employ of the Electric Company at Ottawa, with which he re-
mained until 1889, when he came to British Columbia, assisting in the con-
struction of the electric street railway and electric lighting system of Vic-
toria, which was the first electric street railway to be built in the province. Mr.
Hinton was actively engaged in that work until 1899, when he came to Van-
couver and established an independent business on his own account. In this
he has since continued, operating under the name of George C. Hinton & Com-
pany. From a business established on a comparatively small scale, it has
grown to large proportions. They are consulting electrical engineers, dealers in
and manufacturers of electrical and steam machinery and general electrical con-
tractors for power and lighting plants. In fact, their business covers the entire 

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scope of activity along those lines and their patronage has steadily grown, for they
have shown themselves to be masters of everything connected with electrical
equipment and construction. Mr. Hinton, through practical experience and wide
reading, has constantly broadened his knowledge, and his scientific attainments, as
well as practical skill, place him with the leaders in this field. Mr. Hinton also
has other extensive financial and commercial interests, being an officer or direc-
tor in a number of corporations and companies, including the Burton Saw Works,
Ltd. ; the Western Gypsum Company, Ltd., and the Campbell River Power Com-
pany, of all of which he is a director. He also staked and acquired the water
rights on Stave river and was on the first directorate superintending the early
development. His judgment is never hastily formed and the soundness of his
opinions is indicated in the excellent results which have attended his efforts and
his management of important commercial and industrial interests. 

On the ist of November, 1894, at Olympia, Washington, Mr. Hinton was
united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Carlyon, a daughter of William
Carlyon, formerly of Cornwall, England, but who in 1895 went to Victoria,
British Columbia, where he lived retired until his death in 1901. The children
of this marriage are Gerald Lome, Gertrude Irene and Doris. Mr. Hinton is
a member of Cascade Lodge No. 12, A. F. & A. M., and of the Anglican church,
and in his life exemplifies the faith and principles of both. Socially he is con-
nected with the Terminal City and Burnaby Country Clubs. Throughout his
entire career his advancement has come as the result of well defined capabilities
and powers intelligently directed the wise utilization of opportunities, and an
understanding of conditions in the special field of business in which he has
labored. Gradually he has climbed upward, and diligence, determination and
reliability have constituted the rounds of the ladder on which he has mounted. 

CHARLES JAMES KAY. 

Charles James Kay is the vice president of the Columbia Paper Company of
Vancouver and thus occupies a leading position in business circles. The secret of
his success lies largely in the fact that he has always continued in the line of busi-
ness in which he embarked as a young tradesman, thoroughly acquainting himself
with every phase of the paper trade as the years have gone by. He has thus
become well qualified for the active management and control of an important
enterprise of this character. He was born in Dundee, Scotland, March 7, 1876,
and is a son of James and Jane (Kenneth) Kay, both of whom were natives of
Dundee. The father came to Canada in 1908 and now resides in Okanagan,
where he is living retired. 

In the public schools of Dundee and Edinburgh, Charles James Kay pursued
his education, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. He after-
ward entered a large paper mill at Polton, Scotland, just outside of Edinburgh,
and there learned the trade of paper making, serving a five years' apprenticeship,
thus gaining thorough knowledge of the business. He afterward went to Guard-
bridge, Scotland, where he acquainted himself with both the mechanical and com-
mercial phases of the business, remaining there until 1903, when he came to
Canada. He spent one year in Windsor Mills at Quebec "as cashier, clerk and
assistant manager of the Canadian Paper Company, Ltd., and later went to Rum-
ford Falls, Maine, where he acted as night foreman for the Oxford Paper Com-
pany. He next removed to Antioch, California, where he became mill manager
for the California Paper Mills, continuing in that position for three years. On the
expiration of that period, in 1908, he came to Vancouver and was with the firm of
Smith, Davidson & Wright, Ltd., until 1911, when he joined K. A. Smeed and
\Y. W. Wolfenden in organizing the Columbia Paper Company, Ltd., of which
he is vice president and manager. They are wholesale jobbers and importers of
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334 BRITISH COLUMBIA 

for use in the highest class of printing and engraving. Their business has reached
extensive proportions, having been developed along lines which have resulted in
a constant increase in their trade. The reputation of the house is an unassailable
one and their success is the direct outcome of close application, capable manage-
ment and enterprising methods. 

In 1907 Mr. Kay was married in Cambus, Scotland, to Miss Agnes Luttie, of
that country, and they have an extensive circle of warm friends in Vancouver.
While in Scotland Mr. Kay served for six years in the Volunteers, three years
in the Royal Scots and three in the Black Watch. He is also active in cricket,
football and golf circles. He votes with the conservative party but has never been
an active politician, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs
which have been of constantly growing importance. Both he and his wife are
Presbyterians in faith, taking an active and helpful interest in the work of St.
Andrew's Presbyterian church. 

KARL ALFRED SMEED. 

Karl Alfred Smeed is the president of the Columbia Paper Company, one oi
the leading business concerns of Vancouver, and in this connection has built up a
trade of large and gratifying proportions. To his present creditable position in
commercial circles he has gradually worked his way upward and his prosperity
is the merited reward of earnest and honorable effort. He was born in Toronto,
Ontario, November i, 1876, a son of Thomas and Marion F. (Harper) Smeed,
both of whom were natives of London, England. Their marriage was celebrated
in the metropolis and in 1869 they came to Canada, settling in Toronto. After
several years there spent they removed to Winnipeg, where the mother still makes
her home, but the father is now deceased. 

Karl A. Smeed was a young man at the time of the removal to Manitoba,
and in the public schools of Winnipeg and in Lingfield, England, he pursued his
education. At length he returned to Winnipeg, where he entered a crockery store
in the position of clerk, being there employed for one year. He next engaged with
Parsons, Bell & Company, stationery dealers of that city, who later amalgamated
their interests with O'Loughran Brothers, forming the Consolidated Stationery
Company. In 1898 he left their office and went upon the road for the company
as a traveling salesman, his territory being southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
This brought him still broader knowledge of the business in its relations with the
trade, and he continued in that position until 1906, when he entered the employ of
W. J. Gage & Company, Ltd., manufacturing stationers and paper dealers of
Toronto, whom he represented as a traveling salesman until the close of the year
1910. In January, 1911, seeing an opportunity for engaging in business on his own
account, he joined Charles J. Kay and W. W. Wolfenden in organizing the Colum-
bia Paper Company, Ltd., of Vancouver, of which he is the president. This is
now a well established enterprise, its ramifying trade relations constantly reaching
out, while the volume of business transacted by the house is today most gratify-
ing, showing that the firm has become well established in public regard through
its enterprising methods. 

EDWARD CHRISTMAN KNIGHT. 

Edward Christman Knight, prominently connected with business interests
of Vancouver as managing director of the Vancouver Lumber Company, Lim-
ited, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the ist of September, 1868,
a son of William A. and Sarah (Pinckney) Knight, natives of that state, both
of whom have passed away. Their son acquired his education in the German- 

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town Academy and in the University of Pennsylvania, taking the course in
mining and metallurgical engineering in the latter institution with the class of
1889. After his graduation he became associated with the Illinois Steel Com-
pany and he retained this connection for seven years thereafter, resigning it in
order to go to Mexico in the employ of the Guggenheim Smelting Company,
which later became the American Smelting & Refining Company. He acted for
them as ore buyer and general agent and rose from that position to be manager
of the Monterey and Blandena plants. He was also a member of the executive
committee during the last two years of his stay in Mexico. In the fall of 1908
Mr. Knight came to Vancouver and purchased an interest in the Vancouver
Lumber Company, Limited, having since remained as managing director. This
is one of the oldest concerns of its kind in the city, having been founded about
the year 1886 and was first known as the Red Mill, owned by Leamy & Kyle.
It has since been under various managements but its prosperity has continued
without interruption and its place today is among the leading industrial institu-
tions in this part of the province. In 1904 it was purchased by J. E. Tucker and
A. L. Clark and the present name adopted, Mr. Tucker being president and
A. L Clark, vice president. 

At Taylor, Texas, on the 22d of April, 1903, Mr. Knight was united in
marriage to Miss lone Tucker, of that city, and they have two children, Mary
and Edward Tucker. Mr. Knight has extensive club affiliations, belonging to
the Vancouver Club and the Vancouver Royal Yacht Club, the Jericho Country
Club and the Shaughnessy Heights and Vancouver Golf Clubs, these connec-
tions indicating something of the nature and extent of his outside interests. 

ELMER E. CRANDALL. 

Elmer E. Crandall, manufacturers' agent at Vancouver, has throughout his
business career displayed the qualities of close aplication and unremitting energy
so necessary to success, and his advancement, therefore, has been the legitimate
and logical outcome of his efforts. He was born in New Brunswick, January 9,
1862, and is a son of Y. A. Crandall, who was also a native of that province and
who spent all his time there in mercantile life. 

In his youthful days Elmer E. Crandall was a pupil in the grammar school of
St. John, New Brunswick, and when a young man he entered the employ of the
King Lumber Company, Ltd., of Chipman, New Brunswick. He later became
manager of a certain department of the business and after thirteen years as an
employe in that establishment was admitted to a partnership. This is a large and
most reliable company, conducting an immense lumber business and also an ex-
tensive general store in connection with the lumber trade. The president of the
company is Senator King. 

In 1910 Mr. Crandall started westward, visiting a number of points en route
to the Pacific coast, but eventually reaching Vancouver. It was his intention to
remain for only a few months, hoping the change would benefit his health. He
found the climate not only so beneficial but also so pleasing that he determined
to remain and dispose of his business in the east. This he soon did and has since
been closely associated with commercial interests in British Columbia. In July,
1910, he established his present business as manufacturers' agent, in which connec-
tion he represents Charles Fawcett, Limited, of Sackville, New Brunswick, manu-
facturers of stoves, ranges and furnaces. He is also agent for The Lundy Shovel
& Tool Company, of Peterboro, Ontario, and within the short space of three years
his business has reached most gratifying proportions. He is represented on the
road by two traveling salesmen, who cover the entire province of British Colum-
bia, and he expects soon to open a branch house at Calgary, Alberta. He recently
purchased for the Charles Fawcett, Limited, a large building, at No. 1052 Homer
street, which they have occupied since the ist of May, 1913. 

MALCOLM ALEXANDER MAcLEAN. 

Few men were more familiar with the history of western Canada from Win-
nipeg to the coast than was Malcolm Alexander MacLean, and his value as a
citizen of Vancouver was widely acknowledged. He arrived in Vancouver when
the district was almost an uninhabited wilderness, the site of the city being largely
covered by magnificent pine forests. From the time of his arrival he showed a
public-spirited interest in municipal affairs, and as time went on, his efforts for
the upbuilding and improvement of the city were 'far-reaching and beneficial. 

Mr. MacLean was a native of Tiree and was therefore a highlander, the
son of Allan and Jane MacLean, who brought their family to Canada in 1850
and settled in the province of Ontario. Although only a child when he came
to Canada, Mr. MacLean had learned the language of the Celt, and throughout
his life he practiced the tongue so dear to the people of the north, and never for-
got it, conversing with brother Celts fluently. He began his education in the
public schools of Ontario, attended grammar school at Manilla, and subsequently
took up teaching as a profession; but only for a time, as he was desirous of 

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studying medicine and purposed becoming a doctor. When serious financial
reverses overtook his elder brother, who was> engaged in the lumbering business,
Mr. MacLean turned over all his savings to help his brother in meeting his obli-
gations, and his plans for entering upon the study of medicine were thereby
abandoned. This act was characteristic of the man throughout his life. He
was not only generous in spirit, but capable, and in the hour of need proved
"a friend indeed" to many. After making his gift to his brother he decided to
prepare himself for a business career, and entered Eastman's Business College
at Poughkeepsie, New York. After finishing his course there he entered the
New York office of the Cunard Steamship Company, where he remained for
several years. Later he returned to Canada and engaged in business in Oshawa
and Dundas and again in Toronto, where he received the government appoint-
ment of official assignee. When the exodus to the west began Mr. MacLean
joined a party of business men and set out for Winnipeg, then a comparatively
small city. Here he became one of the leading wholesale merchants and acquired
a large fortune. He extended his operations to the real-estate field in company
with his brother-in-law, the late A. W. Ross, for many years member of the
Dominion house for Lisgar. Like hundreds of others Mr. MacLean suffered
severely in the collapse of the boom in the early '8os, and leaving Winnipeg, he
settled on a farm at Qu'Appelle. This he developed into a magnificent stock
farm, which became a center of hospitality in that part of the northwest. Many
newcomers from the old country sought the advice and assistance of Mr. Mac-
Lean in those days because of his thorough knowledge of the country, good
judgment and willingness to assist others, and among the guests who visited
Laggan Stock Farm were counted many distinguished names. The Saskatchewan
rebellion broke out at this time, and although Mr. MacLean's farm was sur-
rounded by bands of Indians, his fair treatment of the redskins and uniform
kindness saved him from molestation. 

Looking for more encouraging conditions still further west, Mr. MacLean
left his wife and children in eastern Canada and made his way to the Pacific
coast, reaching Vancouver by way of San Francisco about the end of Decem-
ber, 1885. He opened a real-estate office, again in company with his brother-
in-law, the late A. W. Ross, and became very active in public affairs. He was
one of those who were instrumental in bringing about the incorporation of Van-
couver as a city in the year 1886, and was elected its first mayor. A short time
after the city's incorporation occurred the great fire which swept away the entire
settlement. Then it was that Mr. MacLean did heroic work for the stricken
and homeless. His wide acquaintance with eastern business men enabled him
to do much personally toward bringing speedy relief and liberal assistance to
\ ancouver. His management of a trying situation was admirable. In 1887 he
was reelected by a large majority. During the two years in which he filled the
mayor's chair he gave his services freely, and declined to accept any salary
throughout that time. He lost heavily in the fire, but his courageous spirit did
not desert him and his character developed and his worth became more and more
appreciated. In 1888 he became police magistrate, a position which he held for 

al years. While on the bench he tried some sixteen hundred cases and but
few of them were appealed. In the first two years of the city's life he agitated
the setting aside of tracts of land for park purposes in various parts of the city,
arguing that the time would come when Vancouver would require breathing 

s, and that the cos^ of such land would be heavy in days to come. The
councils of those early days did not agree with this view and Mr. MacLean
found it impossible to carry out one of his cherished schemes. He was able
lo a great deal, however, towards securing Stanley park for the people
<-f Vancouver, with the assistance of Mr. A. W. Ross, then a member of parlia-
ment for the Dominion house, and other public-spirited men. Mr. MacLean was
deeply interested in immigration and foresaw 'the part that immigration was to 

in the building up of the west. In this connection he undertook important
work for the government and was the means of inducing large colonies of Cana- 

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dians, who had gone to the United States of America some years before, to
return to the northwest wheat fields and to the promising districts of British
Columbia. He contributed a number of articles to the Scottish American and
various old country journals bearing on the brilliant future of Canada, more par-
ticularly the west. 

In all that he undertook Mr. MacLean was ably assisted by his wife, who
was Miss Margaret Cattanach, a member of one of the best known families of
Ontario, also of highland blood. During her long residence in Vancouver Mrs.
MacLean has associated herself preeminently with good works and given a help-
ing hand to many. Five children were born of the marriage, three daughters
and two sons: Ethelwynne Kate; Alexandra Isabel Ross; and Constance Mary,
who became the wife of LeRoy Eraser Grant, civil engineer and a graduate of
Kingston Military College; Duart Cluny Cattanach; and Malcolm Mackenzie
Gordon. 

In the spring of 1895 Mr. MacLean received the appointment of stipendiary
magistrate for the county of Vancouver, but he never sat on the bench, for death
came to him, after a few weeks of illness, on the 4th of April in that year. In
his passing Vancouver lost one of her most valued and honored residents. He
was the organizer of the Pioneer Society and its first president. He founded
likewise the St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society and the Highland Society and
was the first president of both. He was a forceful and gifted speaker, many
of his addresses being of a high order. He was a member of the Presbyterian
church, and his entire life was actuated by high and honorable principles that
made his example and his labors a force for good. None questioned the integ-
rity of his motives, and all acknowledged the worth of his public service, ranking
him with one of the west's most valued pioneers. 

THOMAS KIRKPATRICK. 

Prominent among the energetic, enterprising and successful business men of
Vancouver is Thomas Kirkpatrick, shingle manufacturer, whose interests are
extensive and of growing importance. He was born at Kirkshill, Parsboro, Cum-
berland county, Nova Scotia, December 10, 1864, his parents being Alexander
and Eliza (Mason) Kirkpatrick, the family being of Irish descent and both
parents passed away in Nova Scotia. The father was among the early settlers
of that section of Nova Scotia in which his son Thomas was born. The latter
was reared upon his father's farm and his education was acquired in the public
schools of his native province. In 1883, when nineteen years of age, he went
to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was variously employed for two years, and
in April, 1886, he came to British Columbia, having been urged in a letter from
a friend to try the extreme west, settling in Vancouver, which city had but been
brought under municipal form of government and named in that year. He first
earned his livelihood by driving stage between Vancouver and New Westminster.
He has since been an interested witness of the growth of the city and its develop-
ment and has borne an important part in the work of progress and improvement,
especially through the development of his business interests, which have been
a factor in bringing about its present commercial greatness. Soon after the
fire of 1886, he entered the employ of George Slater in the shingle manufactur-
ing business and remained with him for two years, after which he started in
business on his own account at Port Moody, under the firm name of Kirkpat-
rick & Hartsell, there renting a small mill, which he operated for two years. He
gained a good start in business there and in 1890 he built a scow, the relic of
which now lies in the yard of his present mill, a reminder of the early days, on
which he erected a shingle mill that he operated for two years on False creek,
near the foot of Burrard street. He next purchased a mill site at Cedar Cove,
to which location he removed his mill. In 1900 he sold his old plant and bought 

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the Archibald McNair mill at Hastings, which he still operates, and in 1902,
his mill at Cedar Cove having been destroyed by fire, he purchased the Welsh
mill at New Westminster and built an additional mill at Hastings, thus having
two mills there. In 1904 the mill at New Westminster was destroyed by fire,
entailing a large financial loss. However, he continues in the shingle manufac-
turing business to the present time, operating his mills at Hastings, and his out-
put is large, his products selling throughout Ontario and the northwest. In
fact, he is at the head of one of the important productive industries of his sec-
tion, having a well equipped plant, while the finished product which he turns out,
because of its excellence and durability, finds a ready sale on the market. More-
over, in his dealings he is a man of unimpeachable integrity, fair and square in
all business transactions, his course proving an exemplification of the old adage
that honesty is the best policy. As he has prospered in his undertakings he has
invested in realty in Vancouver and vicinity and his holdings are now extensive.
On the i8th of September, 1890, Mr. Kirkpatrick was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth Brander, a native of Halifax and of Scotch descent, her father
being Robert Brander, of Halifax. Their children are: Earl Alexander, who
graduated from McGill University on May 13, 1913; and Robert Huntley, for
two years a student in the Vancouver branch of AIcGill University. The family
are Presbyterians in religious faith. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a conservative in pol-
itics and, like all loyal citizens, feels an interest in the political situation of the
day. He served as alderman of Vancouver, having entered upon his first term
in 1909 and still serves in that office laboring to promote the municipal welfare.
His social nature finds expression in his membership in the Terminal City and
Commercial Clubs. Men know him to be forceful and resourceful, capable and
determined, and he belongs, moreover, to that class of men who owe their
advancement and enviable position to their own efforts. 

ARCHIBALD L. TEETZEL. 

Since the fall of 1907 Archibald L. Teetzel has figured in business circles in
Vancouver in connection with the hardware trade and is now conducting a whole-
sale business along that line under the firm name of Macpherson & Teetzel
although he is now sole proprietor. His business in this connection has assumed
extensive proportions and yet does not entirely cover the range of his activities,
for in other fields he is also laboring successfully. He was born in western
Ontario in 1880, his parents being James E. and Julia (Leitch) Teetzel, who were
also natives of that province. The father was a civil engineer and practiced his
profession in Ontario until he retired from active business in 1906. He then came
to Vancouver, where he and his wife still reside, Mr. Teetzel now enjoying the
rest which should ever follow earnest, persistent and honorable effort. 

Archibald L. Teetzel is indebted to the grade and high schools of Ontario
for the educational opportunities afforded him, and when his education was com-
pleted he secured a position as clerk in a general store in Ontario, where he re-
mained for eight years. No higher testimonial of his fidelity and capability could
be given than the fact that he was retained in one employ for so long a period.
In April, 1901, he arrived in Vancouver and immediately afterward accepted the
position of traveling salesman with the firm of Ramsey Brothers, wholesale
grocers, who were represented throughout the provinces of British Columbia and
Alberta, continuing in that work for six years. He resigned his position at the
beginning of the year 1907 in order to engage in the wholesale and retail grocery
business at Nelson, British Columbia, in which he was associated with R. M.
Hood, formerly a traveling salesman for W. H. Malkin & Company of Vancouver,
under the firm style of Hood & Teetzel. Eight months later he sold out to his
partner and in the fall of 1907 became a resident of Vancouver, where he entered
into business relations with D. Macpherson. They established a wholesale hard- 

CHARLES JOHN SOUTH. 

Charles John South, deputy police magistrate, was born at Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, August 2, 1850, his parents being George Bennett and Sara (Percy) South.
His education was acquired in the state schools of Victoria, Australia, and he
followed the vocation of an accountant until he entered into active public service.
The year 1896 witnessed his arrival in British Columbia, and from 1902 until
1912 he was superintendent under the Children's Protective Act of British Colum-
bia. In 1901 he became superintendent of the Children's Home and as such proved
most capable, displaying sound practical judgment and broad humanitarianism in
shaping the policy and promoting the interests of the institution and of those in its
charge. For many years he was honorary representative of the Royal Humane
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that of library commissioner in Vancouver for a period of two years. He was
again called to public office when made justice of the peace for British Columbia,
and in November, 1910, was appointed deputy police magistrate for the city of
Vancouver. 

Mr. South was united in marriage to Miss E. B. Unthank, a native of York-
shire, England, and they have become the parents of four sons and two daughters,
Percy, F. Leslie, Norman, A. Lyndon, May and Woodstock. The first three are
married, while the younger three are at home. Mr. South belongs to the Masonic
fraternity .and is always loyal to the beneficent teachings of the craft. He is an
earnest and active member of the Methodist church and a teacher in the Sunday
school. His life has been actuated by high and honorable principles, having their
root in recognition of the duties and obligations of man to his fellow man and to
his Maker. His kindly spirit, patience, geniality and ready understanding splen-
didly qualified him for the work which he did as superintendent of the Children's
Home and for his labors in other connections, and as police magistrate he often
embraces his opportunity for tempering justice with mercy, thus calling out the
manhood of the individual. 

ROBERT WILLIAM FORD. 

Robert William Ford, manager of the Vancouver Gas Company, to which posi-
tion he was appointed in December, 1912, was born September 13, 1885, at
Stockton-on-Tees, England, his parents being William and Elizabeth Ford, the
former a professional consulting gas engineer. In the public schools of his native
city the son pursued his early education and afterward attended Leeds University,
pursuing a course in the gas engineering department for several years, and thus
receiving comprehensive technical training and preparation for the line of labor
to which he has devoted his life. After leaving the university he became connected
with the Middlesborough (England) corporation in the line of his profession and
remained in that connection for several years, at the same time working with his
father as consulting gas engineer. Attracted by the growing opportunities of the
new world, he came to Vancouver in 1910 to take the position of assistant manager
of the Vancouver Gas Company, having been appointed to the position while in
London, where are located the headquarters of the company. He came at once to
this city, where he has since remained, and his ability won him promotion to the
position of manager in December, 1912. He is now ably and faithfully and
promptly discharging the important duties which devolve upon him in this con-
nection, his promotion signifying the acceptability of his service to the company. 

Mr. Ford is a member of the Canadian and Rotary Clubs and his life principles
have their root in his religious faith, which finds expression in his membership in
St. John's Presbyterian church. He has become well known during his residence
in Vancouver, gaining many friends here and winning the warm regard of those
with whom he has been brought in contact. 

FREDERICK STEELE JONES. 

A worthy son of a worthy sire, Frederick Steele Jones occupies today an
iportant position in the commercial life of Vancouver as head of the firm of
C. H. Jones & Son, Limited, which was founded by his father. The firm is en-
gaged in the manufacture and sale of awnings, tents and sails and its trade con-
nections are such that it deserves to be numbered among the foremost establish-
ments of its kind in the province. Frederick S. Jones was born in St. John, New
Brunswick, March 16, 1879, a son of Charles Henry and Anna Steele (Calbraith)
Jones. The father came to Vancouver in the fall of 1886, shortly after the his- 

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torical fire, and here established himself in the tent and awning business as well as
that of sailmaker, also handling a general line of canvas goods. He became well
and favorably known in the commercial world of Vancouver, which city he made
his home and business field until his death, July 8, 1912. 

Frederick S. Jones .received his education in the public schools of Vancouver
and after laying aside his text-books entered his father's business, becoming thor-
oughly acquainted with its methods and details. In 1901 he was taken into part-
nership, the name of the firm becoming C. H. Jones & Son. This style is still used
by the son, although the father is now deceased, the firm now being incorporated
with the word "Limited" added thereto. The office and factory of the firm
is located at No. 1 10 Alexander street, Vancouver, and there they not only handle
their own goods but also imported cotton ducks and drillings, Egyptian sail cloths,
waterproof silks, oiled clothing, parafine duck clothing, waterproof canvas and
camp furniture. Their goods are distributed through the wholesale trade as well
as in the retail. Mr. Jones is principally engaged in the extension of his important
business connection but also has real-estate interests. 

At New Westminster, on October 15, 1901, Frederick S. Jones married Norma
Christina, a daughter of William and Augusta Sword, and they have become the
parents of one child, Ira Steele Jones. During the time of the Fenian raid Mr.
Sword gave an example of his patriotism as a member of the volunteers and
recently in commemoration of his services received a medal from the Dominion
government and also a grant of one hundred dollars, which was given to each of
the volunteers. The religious faith of Mr. Jones is that of the Methodist denomi-
nation and politically he is a conservative, giving stanch support to his party's
candidates. One of the progressive business men of Vancouver, Mr. Jones has
not only attained to individual prosperity but has been a factor in promoting com-
mercial expansion and is interested in all measures intended to advance the gen-
eral welfare. 

HARRY ALLEN BELYEA. 

Harry Allen Belyea, of the firm of H. A. Belyea & Company of New West-
minster, is successfully engaged in business as a dealer in coal and wood and
has also built up an extensive patronage in all kinds of teaming and transfer
work. His birth occurred in Ashland, Carleton county, New Brunswick, on the
8th of September, 1868, his parents being Henry Albert and Millicent (Nevers)
Belyea, who spent their entire lives in the province of New Brunswick. In early
manhood the father was for several years engaged as a stage driver from Wood-
stock to River du Loup, but subsequently turned his attention to agricultural
pursuits, following farming until called to his final rest in 1908, when eighty-two
years of age. His wife passed away at the age of sixty-eight years. 

Harry Allen Belyea attended the country schools of his native county in the
acquirement of an education. In 1886, only a few days prior to his eighteenth
birthday, he left the parental roof and made his way to Emporium, Pennsyl-
vania, spending about a year in the lumber woods. Subsequently he went to
Menominee, Michigan, where he drove a team in the lumber woods and also
engaged in river driving. At the end of eleven months, however, he went west
to Tacoma, Washington, and there took a contract to cut shingle bolts in
association with George T. Reid, being thus engaged with excellent success for
about eighteen months. In the spring of 1890 he came to British Columbia and
secured employment as a driver for W. E. Dickinson, a truck and dray man, in
whose service he remained for about three years. On the expiration of that
period he accepted a position with Gilley Brothers, for which firm he drove
for about six years and was then appointed foreman of their extensive team-
ing operations. After about three years spent in that capacity, he resigned the
position and founded the firm of H. A. Belyea & Company, his partners in the 

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enterprise being Thomas Stoddart and Rupert Fulton, who are still associated
in business with him. The newly organized concern bought out the teaming
business of Crane Brothers and began operations on their own account. They
embarked in the coal business in addition to teaming and are now among the
leading coal dealers in New Westminster. The success of the enterprise is
attributable in no small measure to the excellent management of Mr. Belyea,
who is a man of sound judgment and keen discernment in business affairs. He
deserves great credit for what he has accomplished, having worked his way
steadily upward from a humble position in the business world to one of pros-
perity and prominence. 

On the 26th of July, 1892, Mr. Belyea was united in marriage to Miss Eliza-
beth Stickney, of New Westminster, a daughter of William Stickney, who came
to British Columbia from New Brunswick late in the '8os. Our subject and his
wife have one son, Frank Percival, of Daysland, Alberta. Mr. Belyea belongs
to the Westminster Board of Trade and fraternally is identified with Royal City
Lodge, No. 3, I. O. O. F., and Granite Lodge, No. 6, K. P. He attends and
contributes to the support of the Baptist church, of which his wife is a devoted
member. They are widely and favorably known throughout New Westminster,
having won the unqualified confidence and regard of all with whom they have
come in contact during the long period of their residence here. 

ROBERT J. SPROTT. 

Undoubtedly the central figure in educational circles of British Columbia along
commercial lines is Robert J. Sprott, president of the Vancouver Business Insti-
tute and one of the most able and progressive educators in the province. His in-
fluence, indeed, extends beyond provincial boundaries, for under his able manage-
ment the school of which he is at the head has become the second largest of its
kind in the Dominion a worthy memorial to the constructive intelligence, the
broad and scholarly attainments and the administrative ability of the man who
founded it and who controls its destinies. Mr. Sprott has devoted practically all
of his active career to educational work and, constantly following high ideals and
adhering to practical modern standards, his influence has been felt as a force for
progress in intellectual circles of the communities where he has made his home.
He was born in Grey county, Ontario, on the ist of March, 1873, and is a son
of Henry and Jane (Morrison) Sprott, the former a native of Quebec and the
latter of Ontario. On both sides Mr. Sprott is a descendant of old families, the
members of whjch have been prominent in military affairs, the paternal ancestors
having been officers in the English army as far back as the time of William of
Orange, and the maternal grandfather, Robert Morrison, having served as a soldier
in the Fenian raid in Ontario. The parents of our subject resided in Grey county,
that province, until the spring of 1909, when they moved to Vancouver, where the
father is now living in retirement, giving supervision, however, to his large farm-
ing interests in Ontario. 

Robert J. Sprott acquired his early education in the public schools of his native
community and was afterward graduated from Toronto University, taking honors
in modern languages, English and history. After spending one year on the con-
tinent of Europe perfecting himself in his chosen branches he entered Ontario
Normal College and there spent one year, turning his attention at the end of that
time to teaching in the Oshawa and Mitchell Collegiate Institutes, gaining marked
distinction in this field. His ability brought to him the appointment to a lecture-
ship in St. John's Collegej University of Manitoba, and after spending some time in
this line of work he was appointed senior fellow in the department of romance lan-
guages in the University of Chicago. When he resigned this in 1905 he came to
Vancouver and in the same year established the Vancouver Business Institute, of
which he has since been president, the credit for its phenomenal growth and sub- 

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stantial success being due entirely to his genius for organization and his knowledge
of everything connected with commercial school work. Realizing the need of
thoroughness in an institution of this kind, Mr. Sprott employs none but the best
teachers and his school courses are taught in the best manner known to modern
pedagogy. These are at all times practical, departments having been established
in which pupils can be fitted for almost any place in the modern business world.
The attendance has increased steadily since the foundation of the institute, being
now three hundred and seventy-five, this number including the pupils in the even-
ing classes. The school's continued growth has brought to it the distinction of
being the second largest institution of its kind in Canada but with size is coupled
that more necessary qualification thoroughness in all branches it being also one
of the best and most intelligently managed educational institutions in the Do-
minion. Courses are offered in stenography, typewriting and bookkeeping and
besides these ordinary branches there are special courses in mathematics, embrac-
ing the higher departments and preparing the pupils for positions as chartered
accountants, and courses in salesmanship and advertising. There is also a course
in civil service and, contrary to the rule of most schools of this type, both the Pit-
man and Gregg systems of shorthand are taught. Mr. Sprott has become a
specialist along lines of business education and his ability, becoming generally
known and recognized, has carried him forward into important educational rela-
tions. He is now president of the New Westminster Modern Business School and
of the Nanaimo Business School, having founded the former in 1910 and the
latter in 1912. The New Westminster institution is the only one of its kind in the
city and the Nanaimo school, although still in its infancy, is progressing well and
promises to be of the same high standards as the others which have prospered so
greatly under the careful guidance and able management of their founder. In
purely business lines Mr. Sprott is chairman of the board of directors for British
Columbia of the Western Empire Life Insurance Company. 

In Vancouver, on the 2Oth of October, 1910, Mr. Sprott was united in mar-
riage to Miss Beatrice Van Sickle, a daughter of Rev. M. Van Sickle, of this city.
Mr. Sprott gives his allegiance to the conservative party but is not active in politics,
preferring to devote all his attention to his educational interests. A man of broad
views, of scholarly attainments and progressive in spirit, he has risen to promi-
nence in the special field to which he has devoted his energies and talents and his
powers have steadily developed during the years, influencing and raising general
educational standards throughout the province. To Vancouver he has given an
institution which is practically perfect of its kind and the influence of which upon
the future business life of the city is almost impossible to estimate. 

JOHN H. CARLISLE 

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On the 1 5th of March, 1887, in Seattle, Washington, Mr. Carlisle was united
in marriage to Miss Laura McRae, a daughter of Alexander and Elinor McRae.
Their children are Dora, Frank, Ethel, Kenneth, Walter, Ella, Verona, Jack
and Florence. The eldest daughter is the wife of A. S. McDonald, of Vancouver,
and the others are all yet at home. 

Chief Carlisle is a member of Acacia Lodge, No. 22, A. F. & A. M., of
Vancouver, and also belongs to the Loyal Order of Orange. He gives evidence
of his interest in the material expansion of the city by his membership in the
Commercial Club. A man of vigorous physique and one who realizes the im-
portance of a healthy body as a habitat for a healthy mind, he is a lover of the
out-of-doors and finds recreation from his arduous duties in outdoor sports,
such as hunting and fishing. His value as a public officer and as the head of
one of the most important departments of the city government, engaged in the
prevention of destruction to property and disaster to human life, is readily
recognized and his fitness for his position is of value as a public asset. 

ROBERT WETMORE HANNINGTON. 

One of the most able barristers in Vancouver and one of the most public-spir-
ited and progressive men in the city is Robert Wetmore Hannington, practicing at
the bar of British Columbia as a member of the firm of Harris, Bull, Hannington &
Mason. He was born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, May 22, 1868, and is a son
of Hon. Daniel L. and Emily M. (Wetmore) Hannington, the former late premier
of New Brunswick and senior judge of the supreme court of that province. 

Robert W. Hannington acquired his early education in the grammar schools
of Dorchester and afterward entered the University of New Brunswick, from
which he was graduated in 1888 with the degree of B. A. Having determined upon
a legal career, after three years study in the office of his father, he became a
student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, attending in 1891 and
1892, and in the latter year was called to the New Brunswick bar. Shortly after
he practiced at St. John for five years and in 1897 moved to Nelson, British Colum-
bia, where until 1908 he engaged in general practice, first with S. Taylor as a
member of the firm of Taylor & Hannington and later with Judge Galliher under
the firm name of Galliher & Hannington. In 1908 Mr. Hannington moved to Van-
couver and the firm of Russell, Russell & Hannington was formed in the city, the
association continuing until 1911, when Mr. Hannington returned to Nelson.
However, he remained only three months and then returning to Vancouver, aided
in the organization of the present firm of Harris, Bull, Hannington & Mason.
This is one of the strongest law firms in the city, all of its members being able,
brilliant and resourceful men, and it is connected through an extensive and repre-
sentative patronage with a great deal of notable litigation. In Vancouver Mr.
Hannington is known as a strong and able practitioner, well versed in the under-
lying principles of law and possessing the incisive and analytical qualities of mind
necessary to make his knowledge practical and effective. He has won a number
of notable legal victories and has been carried forward into important relations
with the public life of the city, his signal ability gaining him recognition in official
circles. In 1912 he was appointed commissioner for the government to investigate
the conditions existing in the Vancouver General Hospital and in the same year
was appointed counsel to revise the Vancouver city by-laws. In both of these im-
portant capacities he accomplished the work in hand with thoroughness and dis-
patch, adding something to the respect and esteem in which his name is held in
ancouver.
On the 1 6th of August, 1911, in St. John, New Brunswick, Mr. Hannington
as united in marriage to Miss Louisa M. Skinner, a daughter of Robert C. and
Elizabeth C. Skinner, the former for several years judge of the probate court of
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is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He belongs to the
Vancouver Club and to the Press Club in Vancouver and is well known in the
affairs of the Nelson Club of Nelson. His political allegiance is given to the con-
servative party and while he is not an active politician he is essentially public-
spirited, interested in the welfare of the city and always eager to do his utmost
to promote civic growth. In a profession where advancement depends entirely
upon superior merit and ability he has made steady and rapid progress and his
record is a credit to the bar of British Columbia which numbers among its repre-
sentatives so many able and brilliant men. 

BEACH ADONIJAH LASELLE. 

In the history of Beach Adonijah Laselle we have the record of one who
has utilized the thrift and enterprise which have ever characterized New Eng-
land's sons in the development of the splendid natural resources of the Pacific
northwest. Opportunities which others have heedlessly passed by he has utilized,
and his practical experience and native intelligence have been of incalculable
benefit to this section of the country. A native of Vermont, Mr. Laselle was
born at St. Albans Point, Franklin county, July n, 1870, and his parents, Arthur
and Ellen M. (Hathaway) Laselle, were also natives of that state. The father
is now a retired farmer of Franklin county, where he has spent his entire life.
His wife died in early womanhood during the infancy of their son Beach. 

In the public and high schools of St. Albans, Beach A. Laselle pursued his edu-
cation until graduated with the class of 1887. He afterward spent a year as a
clerk in the postoffice of his native city and at the end of that time, or in August
1888, went to Anacortes, Washington, where he secured a clerkship in a general
store, remaining there until the late fall of 1889. During his residence in Ana-
cortes he had dealt to a limited extent in real estate in the growing and promising
towns of Seahome, Fairhaven and Whatcom, all of which now form a part of
the city of Bellingham, Washington. In the fall of 1889 Anacortes entered upon
a boom and Mr. Laselle opened a real-estate office in what had hitherto been a
trading post and steamboat landing. His was the first real-estate office there and
he conducted his business in a tent, having as a partner E. K. Hiatt. From the
beginning he was very successful throughout the period of the boom, negotiating
many important realty transfers. In May, 1890, he went to the mines at Galena,
Washington, in Silver creek, where he did lode mining, taking up several claims
in that region. Locating there, he also took some contracts for assessment work
on nearby claims and a little later, in partnership with William H. Roberts, he
opened a general store at Galena in the spring of 1894. Owing to the slump in
silver ore, the camp at Galena died out and Mr. Laselle disposed of everything
that was salable and left a considerable amount of goods on the shelves of his
store, as it would cost more to move the stock than it was worth. He left there
with Edward Stevens and went to Wenatchee, Washington, where they pur-
chased some pack horses, fitted up an outfit and started upon a prospecting and
mining trip in the Similkameen district, going through the mountains at the head
of the Pasaytan river, a branch of the Similkumeen, to the town of Princeton.
That was in the year of the big floods of the rivers of British Columbia, and Mr.
Laselle had great difficulty in crossing the creeks and rivers which he encountered
on his journey. The town of Silver was washed away before their very eyes.
They had planned to cross to the town the night before but failing to secure a
canoe had camped over night. In that time the rising river had so swollen that
at daylight the houses began to fall one by one, and were carried away and the
whole town was destroyed. While on the trip their food supply became ex-
hausted and they were two and a half days without food of any kind until Mr.
Laselle shot a fawn, which supplied them with fresh meat to complete the trip
to Princeton. They stopped at Princeton and there, by chance, met a pioneer 

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who told them such glowing tales of the Cariboo that they decided to make their
way to that district. They immediately secured new supplies and set forth on a
journey that meant the lengthening of their trail three hundred and fifty miles.
They left Princeton with two pack horses, both heavily laden, so that they had
to walk. In July they reached Harper's Camp on the Horse Fly river,' spent a
few days there and proceeded to Quesnelle Forks, and thence on to Caribou lake.
At Keithley creek they found George Veith, a pioneer who was conducting a
trading post, where they secured fresh supplies. They then crossed the lake
and spent two months in prospecting the creek's tributary to Caribou lake. Mr.
Laselle then went to Barkerville, while Mr. Stevens remained at Keithley creek.
After a week the former returned and advised Mr. Stevens to go to Barkerville
to spend the winter, which he did. Mr. Laselle then planned his return trip to
Washington, where he had business interests that required his attention. In his
absence from Keithley creek their two horses had wandered away from camp and
had not yet been found on his return. He started out on his return trip and
after walking about sixty miles found both horses. He sold one of them and
proceeded to ride the other. For seven hundred miles he traveled on horseback,
having only one blanket, which he used during the day as a saddle blanket and at
night as a sleeping blanket. He had a frying pan tied to his saddle and he pur-
chased horse feed from the Indians and settlers whom he met en route. His
course was through the valleys of the Similkumeen and Columbia rivers to the
town of Wenatchee, from which point he continued by train to Seattle. When he
crossed the Columbia river at Central Ferry he learned that on the following day
there was to be a sale of wild Oregon horses, fine animals of about eleven hundred
pounds each. He camped there over night and attended the sale, purchasing four
head of horses, none of which had ever had as much as a rope on them. The
highest price that he paid for any of them was four dollars and fifty cents. He
left these horses on a ranch near Central Ferry until the following spring. In
December, 1894, he arrived in Seattle, spent the winter there and closed out all
his interests in Washington with the object of making British Columbia his per-
manent home. In April, 1895, he returned to Central Ferry, where he spent a
few days breaking his new horses. He then proceeded to Barkerville, where he
met his partner of the previous year, and they struck out from there on a prospect-
ing and mining trip that lasted five years. They worked in all directions and on
several occasions went far north. In 1899 Mr. Laselle discovered the China creek
gold mines and in 1901 located the Nugget Gulch gold mine. He immediately
gave his undivided time to the development of those properties and now has them
equipped with the most modern machinery for hydraulic mining, working a force
of men at each mine during the season. Both of these properties are within a
few miles of Barkerville and both have produced some beautiful specimens of ore,
Mr. Laselle having in his possession the largest nugget ever taken from China
creek mine. It contains pure gold to the value of two hundred and fifty dollars
and a very little quartz. 

Mr. Laselle is an entertaining conversationalist and tells many thrilling and in-
teresting tales of his life in Cariboo, all of which would be thoroughly enjoyed
could we give space to them in these pages. In 1909 he placed a man in charge
of the mines and came to Vancouver to make this city his home. In that year he
organized the Northern Development Company, Ltd., of which he is president
and manager. In January, 1910, he bought a large acreage and placed on the
market the town site of South Fort George, which had already become the business
center of the Fort George district. Mr. Laselle was the first man to offer the
public the opportunity to invest in this prosperous new town, which is situated in
the heart of what will soon be one of British Columbia's richest commercial and
agricultural regions. He is called the father of South Fort George, and the
development, growth and prosperity of the district can be largely attributed to
his enterprising efforts. The Northern Development Company also acts as agent
for Fraser and Nechaco valley farm lands, and they are Pacific coast agents for
the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway town site Fraser Lake, British Columbia
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and wider opportunities, and his efforts have at all times been a character that
have contributed to general growth and development. He was one of the organ-
izers of the Pacific Lime Company, Ltd., which was formed in 1910 and of which
he is now the secretary and treasurer. Their plant, which is the largest in the
province, is located at Blubber Bay, on the north end of Texada island. The pro-
duction is approximately eight thousand barrels per month and they supply three
fourths of all the lime used in British Columbia. Mr. Laselle is also president
of the Compressed Fuel Company, the owners, patentees and manufacturers of
a machine that utilizes the waste from saw and cane mills, taking the refuse which
has heretofore been a source of trouble and expense to dispose of and putting it
into the form of commercial fuel that is superior to coal in cost, heat per ton, and
cleanliness. Thus along many lines have the enterprising efforts of Mr. Laselle
constituted an important force in business activity and progress, and his ability
and energy have constituted the foundation upon which he has reached the high
plane of affluence that he now occupies. 

In New York city, on the i8th of April, 1907, Mr. Laselle was married to
Miss Theodora Evelyn Mason, of Greenwich, Connecticut, a granddaughter of the
celebrated surgeon, Dr. Mason, of Brooklyn, New York, and a descendant
of a very old and prominent family of Greenwich. They have one son, Beach
Adonijah, Jr., three years of age. Mr. Laselle is a conservative, and
while in the Cariboo took a very active part in politics. He holds membership
with the Camp Fire Club of America, a game and hunt club which was organized
in New York city some years ago. He was present at its first meeting and is a
charter member in this club, which has a limited membership of two hundred and
is comprised of many of America's celebrities. He is the only member from Brit-
ish Columbia. Mr. Laselle's life has been one filled with romance and adventure.
Born in New England, during his early youth he went alone to the Pacific coast,
has spent winters in the far north of British Columbia, going for days at a time
without food, depending entirely upon the trap and gun. He has been exposed
to the ravages of malaria and fevers of South America and he has met all of the
hardships and experiences of life on the frontier and in the mining camps. He is
a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and is an acknowledged
authority in British Columbia on mining in all its branches. His services have
been employed on many occasions to examine and report upon mining properties
in various parts of British Columbia, California, Nevada, Georgia and Alabama,
and in the winter of 1905-06 he spent five months in investigations in South Amer-
ica on the headwaters of the Amazon river. Of notably broad mind and sound
judgment, of indefatigable energy and enterprise, his achievements are those of a
man who has wisely used his time, talents and opportunities. From each experi-
ence of life he has gained valuable lessons, and there is no one who could speak
more entertainingly and interestingly concerning that period in which exploration
and research were bringing to light the natural resources of the country. 

PERCY FRAZIER. 

The course of years may bring the depletion of natural resources, yet those
of British Columbia seem almost inexhaustible. She has rich mineral districts,
splendid forests and broad prairie lands and the entire northwest furnishes splen-
did opportunity for the investor. Mr. Frazier is active in controlling and directing
interests along those lines as a dealer in timber lands and real-estate, fire and
marine insurance and as financial agent. Within the past decade there has come
to the northwest a great band of American citizens men of enterprise who have
recognized the opportunities of this section and are utilizing them not only for
their own benefit but also in the upbuilding and improvement of the district. To
this class belongs Percy Frazier, who was born in Joliet, Illinois, June n, 1884,
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that state. The son, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, was a
student in the public schools of Joliet until 1894, when the family removed to the
northwest, settling at Vancouver, where he again attended public schools. He
started in the business world in 1899 as an employe of a local grocery concern,
with which he remained for a few years and then resigned to enter the employ
of Swift & Company, wholesale dealers in meats and provisions. Following his
marriage in 1907 he became interested with his father-in-law in some timber
lands, although still in the employ of Swift & Company. Two years later he
resigned his position with that corporation and entered into a partnership with his
father-in-law in the lumber business under the firm name of Frazier & McNair.
This partnership was dissolved in 1910 and Mr. Frazier continued the business on
his own account under the firm style of P. Frazier & Company until May i, 1913,
when he organized the Union Finance Company, Limited, which absorbed both
P. Frazier & Company and the British Underwriters, Limited, and of which Mr.
Frazier became president and so continues to the present time. The Union Finance
Company, Limited, is a close corporation with a capital of twenty-five thousand
dollars and doing a general insurance and financial brokerage business. They are
general agents in British Columbia for the Los Angeles Fire Insurace Company of
Los Angeles, California ; the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia ;
the Western Union Fire Insurance Company of Vancouver, British Columbia ; the
German Commercial Accident Insurance Company of Philadelphia ; and the Mis-
souri Fidelity & Casualty Company of Springfield, Missouri. Though the com-
pany is young, by their absorption of the two aforementioned companies they are
already doing a large business and their prospects for the future are of the
brightest. 

Mr. Frazier is largely conversant with values and with opportunities for invest-
ment in timber lands and other real estate and has controlled important activities
along those lines. Previous to the formation of the Union Finance Company,
Limited, he also conducted a successful fire and marine insurance and general
financial brokerage business which is now a part of the above mentioned company
and to which Mr. Frazier gives his personal attention. 

On the 21 st day of August, 1907, in Vancouver, Mr. Frazier was united in
marriage to Miss Margaret L. McNair, a daughter of David and Mary Jane Mc-
Nair. They have one son, Percy, Jr. Mr. Frazier is a member of the Presby-
terian church and he belongs to Southern Cross Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; Pacific
Chapter, R. A. M. ; and Columbia Preceptory, A. & A. S. R. The nature of his
recreation is indicated in the fact that he holds membership in the American Club,
of which he was one of the organizers and is at present a director. He is also
a member of the Vancouver Automobile Club and the Vancouver Gun Club. He
is wide awake, alert and energetic, attacking everything that he undertakes with a
contagious enthusiasm, and in all his business affairs he has followed constructive
methods, his path never being strewn with the wreck of other's failures. He rec-
ognizes the fact that there is room and opportunity for all and he has won a
liberal clientage by proving his business worth and his enterprise. 

CAPTAIN JOSEPH MAYERS. 

Captain Joseph Mayers, one of the leading coal dealers of New Westmintser
and one of the city's foremost residents and public-spirited citizens, is a worthy
native son of British Columbia, his birth having occurred at New Westminster
on the 4th of August, 1870. His parents were Christian and Mary Mayers, the
former a native of Germany and the latter of British Columbia. Christian May-
ers was one of the pioneer settlers of New Westminster, having come to this
province from his native country as a young man. He was among the first to
make his way to the Cariboo country in search of gold in 1858. Subsequently
he located in Active Pass and later removed to New Westminster. While his 

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son Joseph was still a child he took up his abode at Hastings (now Vancouver),
on the site of which stood nothing but a sawmill. Later he returned to New
Westminster and was here engaged in the tugboat and towing business until
called to his ^ final rest on March 22, 1891. During his active business career
he had been connected with steamboat interests and gained a wide acquaintance
and enviable reputation in that connection. 

Joseph Mayers began his education at Hastings (now Vancouver) and com-
pleted his studies in the public schools of New Westminster. As a boy he had
spent a great deal of time on his father's boat and at the early age of fifteen
years was made captain of a tugboat belonging to Alex Ewen, a pioneer in the fish
canning industry. Subsequently he served as captain of the boats of the Brunette
Saw Mills Company and later acted as captain of the boats of the Royal City
Mills. In 1898 he left the employ of that concern, built a tugboat in associa-
tion with N. R. Preston and embarked in the towing business. In 1901 Messrs.
Mayers and Preston organized the Westminster Towing & Fishing Company,
now operating four tugs. Mr. Mayers was made president of the company and
served in that capacity for six years, on the expiration of which period he
resigned in favor of Mr. Preston, who is now the chief executive officer, our
subject being a member of the board of directors. In 1907, in association with
Mr. Preston, he embarked in the coal business and two years later purchased his
partner's interest therein and also in the tugboat which they had built, having
since conducted both enterprises independently. Success has attended his efforts
in these connections and he has gained a well merited reputation as one of New
Westminster's leading coal dealers and prominent citizens. 

On the 8th of August, 1895, Captain Mayers was united in marriage to Miss
Margaret Taylor, a daughter of James Taylor, who was one of the pioneers of
British Columbia, coming from Scotland to this province for the Hudson's Bay
Company. Captain and Mrs. Mayers have five children, namely : J. C. Francis,
Margaret Catherine, Joseph G., Howard C. and Edward Wallace, all at home. 

Captain Mayers is a liberal in his political views and is one of the pilot com-
missioners under the Dominion government. He belongs to the Native Sons of
British Columbia and the Westminster Club and in fraternal circles is well known
as a member of Fraser Lodge, No. 3, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and
New Westminster Lodge, No. 854, Loyal Order of Moose. He attends the serv-
ices and contributes to the support of the Church of England, to which his wife
belongs. They are well known and highly esteemed throughout the province,
the circle of their friends being almost coextensive with the circle of their
acquaintances. 

JOHN SPURGEON STEEVES. 

In a rapidly growing city there is splendid opportunity for a real-estate man
and he who can see and utilize advantages as they arise has excellent chance to
win success. Mr. Steeves is numbered among those who are devoting their ener-
gies to real-estate dealing and in this connection has negotiated a number of im-
portant realty transfers. He was born in Kings county, New Brunswick, Septem-
ber 26, 1878, a son of Gideon and Rebecca (Brown) Steeves, representatives of a
United Empire Loyalist family that was originally founded in Massachusetts, but
on the proclamation of American independence, remaining loyal to the crown,
came to Canada. 

In the public schools of New Brunswick, John Spurgeon Steeves pursued
his education, and after putting aside his text-books turned his attention to agri-
cultural pursuits. He continued to follow farming in New Brunswick until April,
1907, and in the following August came to Vancouver and entered the real-estate
field, in which he has since operated. For about three months he was in partner-
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the dissolution of that partnership Mr. Steeves has been alone. His investments
are principally in local real estate and he has become the owner of valuable prop-
erty here. He is thoroughly conversant with the real estate that is upon the
market, is an expert in the valuation of property, and has negotiated many im-
portant transfers which have been satisfactory alike to him and to his clients. 

Mr. Steeves was a member of the Eighth Hussars Light Cavalry. His political
faith is that of the liberal party and his religious belief that of the Baptist church.
He holds membership with the Orange order and with the Modern Woodmen of
America. He is interested in all the questions and problems of the day that have
to do with the upbuilding of the city or with the welfare of the province, and his
influence can always be counted upon as a factor on the side of public progress. 

JOHN HOWE CARLISLE. 

It is only when a crisis arises calling forth the strenuous effort of a well organ-
ized fire department that the majority of people stop to think of how important
is the service rendered by the fire fighters of a community and how necessary it
is to have at their head a man capable, cool and resourceful. Such a man Van-
couver has found in John Howe Carlisle, who since 1888 has been chief of the
regular department and held the same position with the volunteer force from
December, 1886. He was born November 4, 1858, in Albert county, New Bruns-
wick, and pursued a public-school education while spending his youthful days in
the home of his parents, Theodore and Jane Carlisle. After leaving school he
removed westward and for three months was a resident of Idaho. He then
went to Seattle, Washington, where he remained for two years, and in March,
1886, he arrived in Vancouver, where he has since made his home. In Decem-
ber of the same year he was appointed to the position of chief of the Vancouver
fire department, which was then a volunteer organization, and in 1888, when
this was changed to a paid department, he was chosen chief and has continued
in the position to the present time, or for a period of a quarter of a century,
and is now the oldest fire chief in point of service in Canada. When chief of
the volunteers Mr. Carlisle was engaged in the trucking business, but upon the
organization of the fire force as a city department he gave up his activities along
that line. The first fire department was founded in Vancouver in May, 1886,
but had no equipment when the town burned. After becoming chief of the
regular force Mr. Carlisle set himself immediately to the task of perfecting a
splendid organization with excellent equipment in the way of fire-fighting appa-
ratus, and the men under him are most loyal, recognizing in him one who is cap-
able of directing their labors to the best advantage when emergency demands.
Vancouver may be said to be the first place on this continent to have adopted
the automobile system at a time when in other places squad wagons only were
used. Visitors from all over, including the United States, came here to see the
new system in operation. Continually the equipment was improved, and in 1908
the equipment for the fire department was two hose wagons and a chemical
engine of automobile type, and these innovations proved so satisfactory that the
city has since enlarged its equipment to its present size, some of the engines
having as high a speed as sixty miles per hour. The present equipment is com-
posed of eighteen pieces, including hose wagons, chemical engines, aerial trucks
and one self-propelling steam fire engine. The aerial trucks reach eighty-five feet
and to each are assigned eight men, but as low as two men can handle one of the
trucks. Mr. Carlisle has done everything in his power to make this splendid equip-
ment effective and on numerous occasions has proven his extraordinary ability in
handling dangerous situations. He is cool and collected in times of excitement,
never losing sight of what might be termed the strategic point in winning a
victory over the destructive element. 

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organizing the False Creek Lumber Company, of which he is the managing direc-
tor. They mill all kinds of native lumber, with an output of seventy thousand
feet of finished lumber per day, and the magnitude of the enterprise is furthermore
indicated in the fact that they employ on an average of one hundred and thirty
men and ship to all parts of Canada west of the maritime provinces. The business
has, been developed largely through the enterprise and capability of Mr. Carnwath,
who is familiar with all branches of the lumber industry and whose sound judg-
ment and unfaltering activity have constituted the basis of this successful
undertaking. 

In Vancouver, on the 2$d of May, 1895, Mr. Carnwath was married to Miss
Phoebe Stewart, a daughter of D. M. Stewart, a well known pioneer of Vancouver.
They have three children, Irene Hamilton, Charlotte Feme and Velma Stewart
Mr. Carnwath votes with the liberal party. He and his wife are members of the
Mount Pleasant Presbyterian church, in the work of which they are actively and
helpfully interested. Mr. Carnwath deserves much credit for what he has accom-
plished in a business way and his example should serve as a source of inspiration
and encouragement to young men who start out as he did, practically empty-
handed, but to whom the path of opportunity is ever open. 

FRANCIS WILLIAM ROUNSEFELL. 

The history of a country is no longer the record of wars and conquests but
of business activity and enterprise, the conquest being no longer that of man
over man but of mind over matter. Francis William Rounsefell is one who
through his intelligently directed efforts has worked his way continuously
upward and is now managing director of Ceperley, Rounsefell & Company,
Limited, insurance, loaning and financial agents. He was born in Wolf-
ville, Nova Scotia, February 19, 1868, and is a son of John and Margaret
(DeWolf ) Rounsefell. The father, a native of Cornwall, England, is now living
at Chilliwack, British Columbia. The mother was descended from United
Empire Loyalist stock and belonged to the DeWolf family in whose honor the
town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, was named. 

Francis W. Rounsefell pursued his education in the schools of England and
since 1882 has been identified with the west, having in that year removed to
Brandon, Manitoba, where he entered the employ of the Merchants Bank, with
which he continued for a number of years. In February, 1888, he came to
Vancouver and was employed for a few years by the firm of Ross & Ceperley,
with whom he continued after the incorporation of their insurance and loan
business under the name of the Vancouver Loan Trust Savings & Guarantee
Company, Limited. The concern was later changed to Ceperley, Loewen &
Campbell, Limited, and Mr. Rounsefell, becoming financially interested in the
business, was elected secretary. When the present corporation of Ceperley,
Rousefell & Company, Limited, was formed he was elected managing director,
which position he still fills. In 1910 Mr. Ceperley, retired from active participa-
tion in the business but is still president. Active control and management largely
devolve upon Mr. Rounsefell, who is a prominent representative of financial and
insurance interests here, the firm controlling an extensive business, their clientage
having increased year by year since the organization of the original company.
Mr. Rounsefell is also a director of the Vancouver Milling & Grain Company,
Limited, and is connected with the directorate of a number of mining com-
panies. His attention, however, is chiefly given to the interests of Ceperley,
Rounsefell & Company, Limited, today the leading concern in the fire insurance
field in the province, their business o'ertopping that of all others. They also
handle real estate and as financial agents conduct a large loaning business,
although insurance is the principal feature. They are the general agents of the
Phoenix of London and of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company. 

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On the 3 ist of January, 1898, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mr. Rounsefell
was married to Miss Elizabeth DeWolf Vaughan, a daughter of Simon and Sarah
Vaughan, connected with the well known firm of shipowners in Liverpool. Mr.
and Mrs. Rounsefell have two children, Eric DeWolf and Marjorie Vaughan.
The parents hold membership in Christ church, Anglican. Mr. Rounsefell gives
his political allegiance to the conservative party, and something of the nature of
his interests and recreation is indicated in the fact that he holds membership in
the Vancouver, Country and Shaughnessy Heights Golf Clubs and is a director
and vice president of the Vancouver Horse Show Association. The steps in his
orderly progression are easily discernible, his advancement being made because
of his recognition and utilization of opportunities, his laudable ambition and his
undaunted enterprise. 

HENRY SIGLER. 

For twenty-one years Henry Sigler has been a resident of the northwest, and
since 1909 has maintained his home in Vancouver, where he is well known as the
president of the Alberta Financial Corporation, Ltd., financial agents and dealers
in real estate. He was born in Roumania, on the i2th of October, 1867. When a
young man of twenty-one years he crossed the Atlantic to the United States,
landing in New York City in 1888. The following year he made his way to
eastern Canada and after three years spent in that section of the country came to
the northwest in 1892. He embarked in general merchandising at Edmonton,
Alberta, in 1895 an< ^ there remained in trade until 1909, or for a period of four-
teen years. He then came to Vancouver and in 1911 was instrumental in organiz-
ing and incorporating the Alberta Financial Corporation, Ltd., of which he was
elected president. 

On the 22d of September, 1898, in Montreal, Quebec, Mr. Sigler was united
in marriage to Miss Fannie Lehrer. They have become the parents of two sons,
David and Maurice. Mr. Sigler was a member of Edmonton Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
which he joined in 1898, and, following his removal to Vancouver, he transferred
his membership to Melrose Lodge in 1912. He belongs to the Progress Club and,
like his associates in that organization, is much interested in all that pertains
to the welfare and upbuilding of the city, the exploitation of its resources and its
substantial development. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to
seek a home in the new world, for here he has found the opportunities which he
sought and which are always open to ambitious, energetic young men, and in their
improvement he has made continuous advancement along business lines. 

OSCAR BRUCE ALLAN. 

Among the enterprises which make Vancouver one of the attractive commercial
centers on the Pacific coast is the jewelry establishment owned and managed by
Oscar Bruce Allan, who has a splendidly appointed store, in which he carries a
large stock and in which he employs thirty-six people. He keeps in close touch
with the progress of the times in all of his business affairs and his store sets the
standard which many others follow. Mr. Allan is a native of Guelph, Ontario,
born July 22, 1877, and his parents are John and Eliza Allan. The family is one
of the oldest of Guelph, having been established there in 1833. Representatives
of the name were the first millers and the first distillers of that place and the old
home was the first house built in Guelph a log structure that is still standing.
It was built by the Upper Canada Company for their resident engineer and when
Mr. Allan's grandfather, William Allan, succeeded to that position he also became
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retired and erected flour mills, which for a number of years he owned and suc-
cessfully operated. The log house built by the Upper Canada Company was later
used by the Canadian Pacific Railroad as a depot until about two years ago. The
lime used in building the foundation of the house was carried on the backs of
men, a sack at a time, over a distance of forty-eight miles from Toronto. The
Allan family shared in all of the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life
and were active in the development of Ontario, where they were among the first
settlers. 

Oscar Bruce Allan pursued his education in the public schools of Guelph and
after putting aside his text-books turned his attention to the jewelry trade there
serving a five-year apprenticeship and remaining in the business at that point until
1897, when he came to Vancouver, where he worked in a jewelry store for some
time. In 19/34 he established his present business. He now has a large establish-
ment, employing about thirty-six people. His stock is extensive and complete,
including goods of both domestic and foreign manufacture, and the attractive
arrangement of the store, the well known reliability of his business methods and
his unfaltering energy have brought to him a substantial measure of success. Pos-
sibly his is one of the largest individual jewelry stores in Canada. As he has pros-
pered in his undertakings he has also invested to some extent in Vancouver realty
but concentrates his efforts upon his mercantile interests and is widely acknowl-
edged to be the leading jeweler of Vancouver. 

On the 23d of September, 1901, in Vancouver, Mr. Allan was united in mar-
riage to Miss Ellen Masters, a daughter of Thomas and Ellen Masters, who came
to this city shortly after the fire of 1886. Both are still residing here. Mr. Allan
is a member of Southern Cross Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Vancouver, and belongs
also to the Terminal City Club and to Christ church. It will thus be seen that
business does not monopolize his time to the exclusion of other interests but that
his life is well balanced in its activities. Men have come to know that he is to be
relied upon as a citizen as well as a business man and as a friend as well as a
factor in public life, and it would be difficult to find one who has more genuine
friends in Vancouver than Oscar Bruce Allan. 

JOHN DAVID ROSS. 

Commercial and industrial enterprises are the foundations upon which are
builded a city's development, prosperity and greatness. Among those who have
contributed to the result accomplished in Vancouver, i John David Ross, a show
case manufacturer, who has a large and well equipped plant and annually places
upon the market an extensive output. He is today regarded as one of the fore-
most representatives of industrial interests in Vancouver. He was born in
Glengarry, Ontario, December 19, 1863, and is a son of David and Emily (Socier)
Ross, the former a native of Scotland and the latter of Ontario. They resided in
Glengarry until 1891, when they came to British Columbia. The father passed
away in Kamloops and the mother in Vancouver. 

John David Ross, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, was a
pupil in the public schools of Glengarry and while yet a boy in his teens learned
the carpenter's trade with his father, who was a contractor. At a very early age
he began contracting on his own account and when a youth of sixteen had four-
teen carpenters in his employ a remarkable record for one of his years. He
continued in that business there until 1886, when he came to British Columbia
and worked on stations for the Canadian Pacific Railway between Donald and
Kamloops for a short time. Locating in Kamloops, he there engaged in the
contracting business as a member of the firm of McGilhvray & Ross, but after
a year this partnership was dissolved. ,Mr. Ross remained alone in the con-
tracting business for six years at Kamloops, .after which he came to Vancouver
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little building was being done here at that time, he soon gave up the work and for
a period was employed in a sash and door factory. In 1900, however, he began
the manufacture of show cases, erecting a work bench in one room of his home.
He had to borrow ten dollars to buy oak for the first two cases which he built.
He soon gained a start, however, and afterward built a little shop, fourteen by
twenty-eight feet, on the rear of his lot at No. 43 Eighth avenue, Mount Pleasant.
About a year later he tore down this shop and built another, twenty-two by
forty-eight feet, on the same site, put in a few machines and employed four men.
He remained there for two years and then removed to Dufferin street, adjoining
the location of his present plant. There he erected a frame building covering
two lots and, enlarging and improving his plant, furnished employment to
twenty men. In 1909 he sold a third interest in the business to J. O. Perry and
they erected their present quarters, now occupying a spacious brick building at
No. 291 Dufferin street. This building is three-story and basement, one hun-
dred by one hundred feet, and is equipped with the most modern machinery to
facilitate the work in their line. They employ from forty to fifty men and
manufacture all kinds of show cases, bank, store and office fixtures and have a
complete beveling and silvering plant for all kinds of mirrors. Their output
amounts in value to about one hundred thousand dollars per year and their goods
are sent to all parts of the province. In July, 1912, Mr. Ross purchased his
partner's interest and is now sole proprietor of this business, which has grown
steadily in volume and importance until it is now one of the foremost manufactur-
ing enterprises of Vancouver. Its development has been along substantial lines
and the secret of success is found in the energy, determination and straight-
forward business methods of the proprietor. He has always maintained high
business standards in the character of material used, in the quality of workman-
ship and in the treatment accorded patrons, and as the years have gone by the
success of this enterprise has grown until Mr. Ross is today numbered among
the leading manufacturers of Vancouver. 

On the 3d of April, 1890, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Mr. Ross was
married to Miss Agnes Brown, a native of Mount Forest, Grey county, Ontario,
then residing in Kamloops. Unto them have been born seven children, as fol-
lows: Stanley David, Winifred Margaret, Carmen Edwin, Allan, Russell, Loren
and Emily. 

In politics Mr. Ross is a conservative and while interested in vital questions
of good government, he is not an active worker in party ranks, his time and
attention being fully occupied with his business interests, which for many years
have been of constantly growing importance. He may truly be called a self-
made man, for whatever success he has achieved is attributable to his own labors
and his well defined and carefully executed plans. His record shows what may
be accomplished when determination and energy lead the way and proves that
success and an honorable name may be won simultaneously. 

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are opened. In speaking of the system of classification of patients introduced
by Dr. Doherty, President Wesbrook said that it was ahead of anything on the
American continent and that the institution promised to give results in the treat-
ment of the mentally afflicted that would surprise the world. 

In 1905 Dr. Doherty was married to Miss Elweena Martin, a native of Brit-
ish Columbia and a daughter of S. B. Martin, one of the provincial pioneers.
They have three children, two sons and a daughter. Dr. Doherty has never dissi-
pated his energies over various fields of labor but has ever concentrated his
efforts upon his profession and today occupies a notable place among the emi-
nent specialists on mental diseases in the country. His broad study has made
him familiar with the methods followed in leading Canadian and American insti-
tutions and also abroad, and practical knowledge and experience have enabled
him to institute new plans the beneficial results of which have been directly observ-
able. Humanity and science constitute the basis for his labors in this connec-
tion, and when we judge of the individual according to the standards of a mod-
ern philosopher who has said : "Not the good that comes to us, but the good that
comes to the world through us, is the measure of our success," then the life work
of Dr. Doherty may be said to be most successful. 

JAMES EDWARD McMULLEN. 

James Edward McMullen, solicitor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad at Van-
couver, was born in Woodstock, Ontario, June 20, 1872, his parents being the
Rev. W. T. and Susanna (Gilbert) McMullen, who were representatives of
Ontario pioneer families. The son was a pupil in the public and high schools
of Woodstock and afterward entered Osgoode Hall at Toronto, Ontario, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1896. Having carefully prepared for
the practice of law, he was called to the Ontario bar in that year and opened a
law office at Gait, Ontario, where he remained until 1898. He then joined the
staff of the legal department of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, and
remained there until 1906, when he came to Vancouver to take charge of that
company's legal business in British Columbia. 

At Toronto, Ontario, on the 3d of January, 1906, Mr. McMullen married
Miss Naomi Temple, a daughter of Edmund B. Temple. Mr. Temple was govern-
ment engineer for a number of years at Toronto Harbor and later had charge of
the harbors at Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Mullen have been born two sons and a daughter, Edmund Temple, Naomi Temple
and James Temple. Mr. McMullen is a Presbyterian. In politics he is a liberal.
He is a member of the Vancouver Club of Vancouver and the Union Club of
Victoria. 

ROBERT MACKAY FRIPP. 

Robert Mackay Fripp, architect, whose reputation and renown are based upon
his artistic nature, thorough training and well developed powers, was born in
Clifton, England, December 16, 1858, his parents being George Arthur and Mary
Fripp. George Arthur Fripp, R. W. S., was at one time court painter to Prince
Albert and Queen Victoria. 

Robert M. Fripp was educated at Belsize Manor, a private school, and under
private tutorship. In 1874 he began the study of architecture in London and ten
years later entered upon the active practice of his profession in Auckland, New
Zealand, where he remained for about four years. In 1888 he came to Vancouver,
where he has since practiced his profession, but prior to that time he had traveled
to a considerable extent, studying widely in connection with his business. Be- 

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ginning in 1878 he spent about a year in travel in South Africa, another year in
eastern Asia, the third year in Europe, and from 1881 until 1884 he was in Tas-
mania and Australia. He then began practice in Auckland, New Zealand, remain-
ing there from 1884 to 1888, when he came to the northwest. Since that time he
has lectured to some extent at Chautauquas, art clubs, arts and crafts societies and
before other organizations, delivering a course of lectures on art and archaeology
and architectural ornament. His wide reading, his broad experience and his deep
research have enabled him to speak not only entertainingly but also with authority
upon questions relating to architecture in any of its various phases or with refer-
ence to its history. He was again in New Zealand from 1896 until 1898 and in the
latter year returned to British Columbia. From 1901 until 1908 he was in
England and California and was made a certificated architect (L. A. C.) in 1906.
In 1908 he returned to Vancouver, where he has since engaged in practice, and in
1910 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He became also a fellow
of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1901 but afterward resigned. He
is the author of essays on Arts and Crafts, the Maori Art and others, and his writ-
ings are of deep interest to all who have had technical training along those lines
or who have an artistic sense that finds gratification in carrying on investigation
of that character. 

On the 27th of February, 1887, at Auckland, New Zealand, Mr. Fripp was
united in marriage to M,iss Christina Nichol, a daughter of John W. and Annie
Nichol. Her father, late of Jesmond, near Newcastle, England, was a representa-
tive of an old English family. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fripp have been born four
children, George Mackay, Clifford Russell, Alice and Dorothea. 

Mr. Fripp was for several years a member of the First Berkshire Volunteers.
In South Africa he joined the mounted infantry, with which he was connected for
eighteen months, and he was also a member of the New Zealand Garrison Artillery
and later of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry. While in that country he
became a member of New Zealand Lodge, F. & A. M., and his religious faith is
that of the Anglican church. That he is interested in municipal affairs and in those
things which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride is indicated in the fact
that he is a member of the Vancouver City Beautiful Association and a vice
president of the Arts, Historical and Scientific Association; also a member of
the board of the Canadian Club, and more strictly along professional lines he is
connected with the Pylon Architectural Club of Vancouver and the Canadian
Handicrafts Guild of Vancouver, being president of the former and vice president
of the latter. Actuated at all times by a spirit of progress, he could never con-
tent himself with mediocrity along professional lines and has gained that broad
knowledge and well merited reputation which come through wide study and highly
developed powers. 

THOMAS JOSEPH ARMSTRONG. 

The fact that Thomas Joseph Armstrong has held the important office of
sheriff of Westminster county for twenty years speaks for itself and stands as
evidence of his ability, faithfulness to duty and his sense of honor as a public
servant. A native of New Westminster, he has made a record which is a credit
to himself and reflects honor upon his community. His public career began in
1886, when he became deputy to his distinguished father, who was then sheriff,
and he has since continued in the public service. He is one of the most popular
officials in Westminster county and enjoys the confidence and good- will of all
who know him. Born in 1864, he is a son of the Hon. William J. and Honor C.
(Ladner) Armstrong, an extended biography of whom appears in another part
of this work. 

Thomas J. Armstrong acquired his education in the common and high
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which he became a clerk in a book and stationery store in his .native city. He
subsequently removed to San Francisco, California, where he learned the drug
business and upon his return, to British Columbia, in 1885, engaged in that line
in partnership with F. H. Coulter in New Westminster, but in the following year
disposed of his interests to D. S. Curtis and in May, 1886, began his public
career. At that time he became deputy to his father, who was then sheriff of
Westminster county, and continued as such until September 17, 1892, on which
date he was appointed acting sheriff. When the act of parliament dividing
Westminster and Vancouver counties went into effect on October 27, 1892, he
received the appointment of acting sheriff, of the latter county as well, serving' for
both counties until July 25, 1893, on which date he was commissioned sheriff of
Westminster county, in which office he has since so ably served. The work
he has done for the past twenty years in his official capacity deserves the
highest commendation, and through his efforts he has largely succeeded in
stamping out lawlessness and controlling the criminal element. In August, 1901,
Mr. Armstrong was also appointed issuer of marriage licenses, which is still
part of his official duties. 

In 1888 Thomas J. Armstrong was united in marriage to Miss Annie Kerr,
a native of Ingersoll, Ontario, and a daughter of Daniel Kerr, a pioneer carriage
manufacturer of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong are the parents of one
daughter, Nora Marguerite. Prominent in fraternal circles, Mr. Armstrong
served as deputy grand master of the Masonic grand lodge of British Columbia
and in June, 1905, was elected grand master of the grand lodge of the province,
the election being held in New Westminster. He also is a member of the West-
minster Club. Faithful to his duties and loyal to his country, Mr. Armstrong
gives a leading example of what constitutes right-minded citizenship and receives
the confidence and good-will of all with whom he comes in contact in an
official or social way. 

CHARLES H. CARNWATH. 

Charles H. Carnwath, organizer and managing director of the False Creek
Lumber Company, has been connected with the business since 1906 and in its
conduct has proven his worth and executive force. Vancouver has thus come to
recognize him as an energetic and self-made man, for he owes his progress en-
tirely to his own labors. He was born in Riverside, Albert county, New Bruns-
wick, in 1867, his parents being James and Rosa (Kyle) Carnwath, both of whom
were natives of Ireland, in which country they were reared and married. Soon
afterward they crossed the Atlantic to New Brunswick and settled at Riverside,
where for a few years the father engaged in teaching in the public schools. Later
he became a general merchant in that town and there they spent the remainder
of their lives. 

Charles H. Carnwath attended public and normal schools at Riverside and was
also a teacher in the country schools for one year. But the west with its widen-
ing possibilities attracted him and in 1888 he came to Vancouver which was still
but a village at that time. He was first employed in connection with the Leamy
& Kyle mill, in the early days known as the Red mill. This was the second mill
built on False Creek. He worked there for seven and one-half years in the
capacity of shipper and afterward became connected with the Royal City mill,
which was the first built on the creek. He represented that business as shipper
for one year and later engaged as shipper in the Robertson & Hackett mill, with
which he was connected for five years. On the expiration of that period he re-
turned to the Leamy & Kyle mill. In the meantime the business had been reor-
ganized under the name of the Vancouver Lumber Company and Mr. Carnwath
continued there as shipper until 1906, when, ambitious to engage in business on his
own account, he utilized his earnings in the establishment of a business of his own,