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
=Chrysler, Francis Henry, K.C.= (Ottawa), is a son of the late Gordon
Harvey Chrysler and Jane Chrysler, daughter of Captain James Mackenzie,
R.N., who was on service on Lake Ontario under Commodore James Yee,
R.N., during the war of 1812. He is a grandson of Colonel John Chrysler,
of Chrysler’s Farm, for sixteen years member for Dundas in the
Parliament of U.C. He was born in Kingston, Ont., educated at Bath
Academy and Queen’s University, Kingston. Married in 1876 to Margaret
Isabella, daughter of Donald A. Grant, of Ottawa. He became a barrister
in 1872; K.C., 1890; has practised continuously in Ottawa and is one of
the leaders of the Bar of Canada, and one of the life Benchers of the
Law Society for the Province of Ontario. He is Counsel for many railways
and other corporations. Has declined appointment to the Canadian Bench.
He acted as Counsel for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in their
action against the Dominion Government to recover bounties for the
manufacture of liquid pig iron; for the Government of Canada in drafting
and settling the contracts and legislation for the construction of the
National Transcontinental Railway; for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Company in drafting and settling their mortgages upon which securities
were issued for the construction of the railway from Winnipeg to Prince
Rupert; for all the railway companies of Canada in framing and settling
The Railway Act of 1903, under which the Railway Commission was
appointed; for various railway companies, principally the Canadian
Pacific Railway, in the general enquiry before the Railway Commission
into railway rates in Canada; for the Dominion Express Company in the
general enquiry into express tolls and contracts; for the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company upon the general enquiry into telegraph tolls
and contracts; for the Special Committee of the House of Commons
appointed to enquire into the question of telephone rates and systems,
and for the Railway Companies of Canada as Counsel before the general
committee appointed by the House of Commons in the Session of 1917, to
revise and consolidate the Railway Act and Amending Acts. He has had an
extensive experience and practice as a Parliamentary Counsel, before the
Railway Commission and in the Supreme Court. His clubs are: The Rideau,
Country and Royal Ottawa Golf, Ottawa; Metis Golf Club, Little Metis,
Que. His address is 87 Catharine Street, Ottawa. Mr. Chrysler has four
children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son, Geoffrey Gordon,
was for some years in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, retiring
in 1912, with the rank of Captain. He enlisted for service in the war
with Germany, going with the first contingent as a Captain in the Second
Battalion of Infantry, of which he is now a Major. He has been three
times severely wounded and has received the Military Cross for
conspicuous valor. The younger son, Philip Harvey, qualified as a
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