A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
essay appeared in book form and has passed through several editions. He
has also written “Socialism, Its Truths and Errors”; “The Greatest
Drama”; “A Material Age”; “Canada and Imperial Federation”; “Religion in
the 19th Century”; “Makers of Canada” (Series); “The Political History
of Canada” (four volumes complete); “Life of Joseph Howe,” and “Life of
Sir Charles Tupper.” He was President of the Nova Scotia Historical
Society and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Coincident with his
legal and literary activities, Hon. Mr. Longley has taken an active part
in politics. He was for some years President of the Young Men’s Liberal
Club of Halifax, and entered public life in 1882 as member of the Nova
Scotia Legislature for Annapolis County, which constituency he
represented until 1905. Two years later Hon. W. S. Fielding, in forming
his Government, invited Mr. Longley to enter it, and in July, 1884, he
was sworn in as a Minister without Portfolio. In 1886 he was appointed
Attorney-General. In 1896 he resigned to enter a contest for Federal
honors in the House of Commons. Being defeated, his old constituents in
Annapolis at once re-elected him by acclamation. At the request of the
Premier, Hon. Mr. Murray, he resumed the duties of Attorney General for
Nova Scotia, which position he held for over nineteen years. In his
public capacity, he was a member of the famous inter-Provincial
Conference at Quebec in 1887, and was one of the prominent figures in
the historic convention of the Reform Party in 1893, when the platform
of the then Opposition was struck. As a legislator he has initiated many
useful provincial measures, embracing important changes in the criminal
procedure, the abolition of imprisonment for debt, consolidation of
County Court Procedure and the incorporation of towns. He is a director
of the British Empire Financial Corporation, and is a great social
favorite in most of the cities of Canada. Has been a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada and was elected Honorary President. On September 4,
1877, he married Annie Brown, daughter of Mr. Newton Brown (deceased,
October, 1899); secondly, Lois Fletcher, daughter of George Fletcher,
Yorkshire, Eng., April, 1901, and has five sons and one daughter. He is
a member of the Halifax and Saraquay Clubs; a director of the Home Life
Association, and received his present appointment in 1905; also a member
of A.F. & A.M. He was created K.C. by Lord Stanley (afterwards Earl of
Derby) in 1890.
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=Morgan, Colin Daniel= (Montreal, Que.), Merchant, is the son of William
Morgan and Jane Brown; was born at West Linton, Scotland, in 1846, and
educated at Edinburgh, Scotland. He married Martha Gold, the daughter of
Hon. Theodore S. Gold, an agriculturist, of West Cornwall, Conn., and
has four children, Theodore, Marjorie, Henry and Alice. He is a member
of the Presbyterian Church, and takes his recreation motoring, etc.
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