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
=Davey, James= (Ottawa, Ont). The Ottawa Manager of The Toronto General
Trusts Corporation; has been with the Company since it was first
established by the late J. W. Langmuir, in the spring of 1882, and was
its first accountant. In April, 1917, he celebrated the 35th anniversary
of his connection with the company. In length of service he is the
oldest Canadian trust company officer. He has been manager of the Ottawa
branch of Toronto General Trusts Corporation since 1905. Mr. Davey
arrived in Canada in March, 1882, after having been for nearly ten years
in the accountant’s office of one of the largest newspaper publishing
houses in the West of England. For a period of 15 years he was chief
accountant of The Toronto General Trusts Corporation, afterwards
occupying the position of secretary for several years. Subsequently he
was placed in charge, for a period of three years, of one of the largest
loan company liquidations in Canada. In January, 1902, Mr. Davey was
appointed manager of the newly opened branch of The Toronto General
Trusts Corporation in Winnipeg, and in January, 1905 (shortly after the
Corporation purchased the business of the Ottawa Trust and Deposit
Company), Manager at Ottawa. Mr. Davey was born in Alderney, Channel
Islands, on September 15, 1855, and was educated at the National
Schools, Alderney, and the Grammar School, Lostwithiel, Cornwall,
England. His parents were James Davey and Mary Anne Davey. He married
Caroline Grace Gerrans, daughter of Joseph Gerrans and Mary Gerrans,
Cornwall, England, and is the father of six sons and daughters—Joseph
Frederick, Marion Elizabeth, Herbert Gerrans (now deceased), Thomas
Deslandes, Caroline Grace, Lillian James. Mr. Davey is a member of the
Laurentian Club, Ottawa, is a Methodist in religion, and an Independent
in politics. He resides at 430 Maclaren Street, Ottawa.
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=Tremeear, William J.= (Pasadena, Cal.), Counsellor-at-Law, a native of
Bowmanville, Ont., received his primary education at the public and high
schools at Oshawa, Ont., and matriculated at Toronto University in the
class of 1881, taking honors in mathematics and modern languages. He
afterwards attended the law school of Osgoode Hall, Toronto, and was
admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1886, and practised in Toronto until
1918, when he removed to Pasadena, Cal., to take up legal literary work.
He is the author of several legal works of recognized authority, amongst
them three editions of an annotated Criminal Code of Canada. He is a
member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the I.O.F.
[Illustration: COL. C.A. HODGETTS, OTTAWA
R.A. STAPELLS, TORONTO]
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