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
ever increased his stores, and has successfully striven not only to
broaden and deepen his knowledge, but to devote it to the service of his
fellow-men, as witness Mr. Clark’s strong and convincing advocacy of the
Canadian Government availing itself of the great scientific attainments
and progressive scholarship of men like Professors Macallum and
McLennan. For many years one of the foremost advocates in Canada of that
great constitutional change in Imperial relations which is to-day being
forged on the anvil of war, Mr. Clark has been a powerful and sagacious
leader in that movement on this side of the water. In the prosecution of
that enterprise he has deservedly won the regard and friendship of some
of the leading scholars and statesmen of our Empire.” The “Globe,” in
the course of a favorable review, said that his Presidential Address on
“The Reign of Law,” “will appeal to thoughtful readers as a scholarly
contribution to a subject which derives fresh interest from the war.”
Mr. Clark has given considerable study to the question of our gold
supply which has proved a potent factor in the financing of the great
war, and will be even a more important factor in the reconstruction
period after the war according to the viewpoint of Mr. Clark, who takes
the position that the increase in the production of gold be encouraged
in every practical way. Politically, Mr. Clark has always been a member
of the Liberal Party, and was formerly President of the Young Men’s
Liberal Club of Toronto, but, in the Federal general elections of 1917
he supported the Union Government. He favors Canada remaining an
integral portion of the British Empire, the utmost practicable extension
of the principle of free trade, and the development of a vigorous
Canadian National Sentiment. Married first Greta Helen Gordon, daughter
of Rev. D. Gordon, and sister of “Ralph Connor,” 1890 (deceased 1894);
second, Annie Macleod Anderson, daughter of late W. N. Anderson,
Toronto, 1899 (deceased, 1910); third, Caroline Chaplin, daughter of
late William Chaplin, St. Catharines; has three daughters, i.e., Mary
Gordon (now Mrs. W. A. Riddell), Margaret Macleod, and Katie H. Burn. Is
a member of the following clubs: Toronto, Ontario, British Empire
(London), Engineers’ Club (Toronto), and belongs to A.F. & A.M.
(Scottish Rite, Zetland). A Presbyterian in religion. Recreation, golf.
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