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
Lieutenant of Artillery and served in France in the 3rd Divisional
Ammunition Column from 1915 until October, 1917, when he was discharged
as being physically unfit for further service. Mr. Chrysler’s elder
daughter, Margaret Gordon, Mrs. Frederick H. Emra, is married to a civil
engineer, who is now a Captain, first in the Second Pioneers and
afterwards in the Engineers, and has been wounded in France. He is now
doing engineering work for the Royal Navy. His younger daughter,
Constance Harvey, is married to Dr. Ernest W. MacBride, LL.D., F.R.S.,
formerly Professor of Biology in McGill University and now Professor of
Biology in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London,
England, where Professor and Mrs. MacBride with two young sons reside.
Mr. Chrysler is by temperament a student and has never occupied any
public office; a prominent member of St. Andrew’s Church, Ottawa, of
which congregation he is an officer. A lover of music, having been for
many years an active member and President of the Orchestral Society; a
keen golfer, golf being his principal recreation. Although for many
years a leading member of the Liberal Party, he is at present a strong
advocate of the policy of carrying on the war by means of a united
Canadian party.
[Illustration: HON. WILFRID GARIEPY
Edmonton]
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=Aikins, Lt.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, Kt., M.A., K.C.=,
Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, was born in Peel County, Ont., December
10, 1851, the son of Honorable James Cox Aikins, who was appointed a
Senator at Confederation, and, on December 9, 1869, Secretary of State
and Registrar General in Sir John A. Macdonald’s administration, and
afterwards Minister of Inland Revenue, and later in 1882, appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the District of
Keewatin, and upon the expiration of his term of office, a second time
called to the Senate of Canada in 1896, and his wife Mary Elizabeth
Somerset. Educated at Brampton High School, Upper Canada College and
Toronto University (B.A., 1875, M.A., 1877), M.A. Ad eundem, Manitoba
University, studied law in the office of Matthew Crooks Cameron and also
Mowat, Maclennan and Downey, admitted to the Bar of Ontario, 1878, and
to the Bar of Manitoba, 1879, in which year he went to Winnipeg, where
he soon established himself as one of the leaders of the profession in
the Province and few members of the Western Bar have held more
responsible solicitorships. Sir James was solicitor and counsel for the
Canadian Pacific Railway throughout the western division since its
organization until he withdrew in 1911, to contest the constituency of
Brandon in the House of Commons, for which he was returned by a large
majority, retaining the seat until the general elections in 1917, when
he was succeeded by Dr. H. P. Whidden (Conservative-Unionist). He was
also counsel for the Dominion Express Co., Imperial Bank, Bank of
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