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
=Patterson, John Pratt=, President and General Manager of
Norris-Patterson, Limited, Advertising Agency, 10 East Adelaide Street,
Toronto, Ontario, was a Councillor of the Town of North Toronto prior to
its annexation by the city, and is to-day a Justice of the Peace. Mr.
Patterson is a member of the National Club, the Royal Canadian Yacht
Club, the Albany Club, Rotary Club, Board of Trade, Canadian Club and
Empire Club, all of Toronto; in addition to York Lodge, A.F. & A.M., St.
Paul’s Royal Arch Chapter, the Scottish Rite and the Canadian Order of
Foresters. He is an ex-member of the Queen’s Own Rifles, a
Liberal-Conservative in politics and a member of the Church of England
in religion. The subject of this sketch was born in Toronto, August 18,
1874; the son of Thomas and the late Jane Williams Patterson, receiving
his education at Upper Canada College. He married Millie, daughter of
the late Richard Harold, of Palmerston, June 21, 1893, and had one son,
Thomas Harold Patterson, since deceased.
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=McLean, Major-General Hugh Havelock, K.C., A.D.G., M.P.= (St. John,
N.B.), son of Lauchlin McLean and Sophia Marsh. Born March 22, 1855, at
Fredericton, N.B. Educated at the Grammar School there. Married,
September 2, 1879, to Jennie Porteous. Children: Colonel C. W. Weldon
McLean, D.S.O. (two bars), Commanding Divisional Artillery, 9th Scottish
Division, B.E.F,; W. W. McLean, who served through the war in South
Africa; Jennie Elise Stetson and Major Hugh H. McLean, Jr., C.E.F. Is a
Barrister-at-law, senior member of the firm of Weldon & McLean,
established in 1878. Has a large corporation counsel practice, being
counsel in New Brunswick for Canadian Bankers’ Association, Bank of
Montreal, Canadian Pacific Railway Company and a number of other
companies. Is President and Director of a number of railway and other
companies. He has been actively associated with the Militia for
forty-five years. He was for many years Captain and Adjutant of the 62nd
St. John Fusiliers, and was in command of that Regiment for a long
period. In 1892 he was appointed to the command of the 12th Infantry
Brigade, a post which he retained until January, 1911. He raised in
1911, in New Brunswick, a Regiment of Cavalry of four squadrons (28th
New Brunswick Dragoons), and was gazetted to the command of this
Regiment on March 1, 1911; in 1912, appointed to command of Cavalry
Brigade. In 1878, when war was imminent between England and Russia,
General McLean raised a company of sixty men and offered his own and
their services in case of war. For this offer he received the thanks of
the Imperial Government. In 1885 he was appointed Captain and Adjutant
of the Regiment raised in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, for
service in the North-West. In 1890 he went to England in command of the
Bisley Team. In December, 1899, he offered himself and one hundred men
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