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
Limitée, has been very active in the financing of large school
municipalities and cities. His firm has handled some of the largest
issues floated in the Province of Quebec in recent years. He has made
various suggestions for the improvement of School municipalities in the
province. Mr. Sainte-Pierre is also well known as an expert accountant,
and systematizer. He is a member of several fraternal societies and it
is well recognized that the prominent position obtained by Credit
Canada, Limitée, is due to the energy and financial skill of Mr.
Sainte-Pierre.
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=Mackenzie, Norman, K.C.=, one of the leading barristers of the Canadian
West, is head of the firm of Mackenzie, Thom, McMorran, McDonald,
Bastedo and Jackson, Regina, Saskatchewan. He was born at Sarnia, Ont.,
January 27, 1869, the son of John Alexander and Helen Mackenzie. He was
educated at private schools. Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall,
Toronto. He read law in the offices of Morphy, Miller, Levesconte &
Smythe, Toronto, from 1888 to 1891, and in latter year was called to the
Ontario Bar. He at once went to Regina, then the capital of the
North-West Territories, was there called to the Territorial Bar and
commenced practice. On the division of the North-West Territories into
Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, he became a solicitor
entitled to practice in both Provinces by virtue of the Act. Was created
K.C. in 1907, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of the North-West
Territories in 1898, and continued to represent the North-West
Territories until 1905, and since then the Province of Saskatchewan,
retiring in 1919 as a Bencher ex-officio under the Act, during which
period he was at different times President of the Society, served as
Public Administrator from 1898 to 1910; 1916 to 1918 he was
Vice-President for Saskatchewan of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr.
Mackenzie finds his chief recreation in art and in his dogs. He is a
member of many social organizations including the Assiniboia Club,
Regina, Wascana Country Club, Regina Golf Club, Manitoba Club, Winnipeg.
He is a Presbyterian and a Liberal in politics. On May 29, 1909, he
married Clara Erma, daughter of Henry McMorran of Port Huron, Michigan
and resides at 2336 Victoria Ave., Regina.
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