Generally speaking, in comparing the biographies of the Canadians of to-day with those of 1886 and 1888, the reader gains a sense of this country’s continuous expansion. The present century has witnessed a marvellous development in the Canadian West, so that in these pages we find numerous records showing not merely the commercial, but the intellectual, progress of the Provinces West of the Great Lakes—stories of brilliant careers built up by men who were mere children in the East when the first volume was published. The reader will also note in the biographies of business men which abound in these pages, the ever-increasing scale on which Canadian commerce and enterprise everywhere is conducted, so that what seemed large in 1886 is relatively small to-day. Though some of the men whose names figure in the index are of less importance than others, all play their part in our complex and vigorous social life, and the story of their progress and fortunes cannot be really tedious to any sympathetic student of humanity. TORONTO, 1919. INDEX Adamson, Alan Joseph, 124 Adamson, John Evans, 121 Aikenhead, Thomas E., 47 Aikins, Lieut.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, 81 Allan, John, 98 Ames, Sir Herbert B., 4 Ami, Henry M., 142 Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., 299 Anderson, Alexander James, 126 Anderson, Frederic William, 75 Anderson, Prof. George R., 144 Anderson, James T. M., 65 Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, 52 Arkell, Thomas Reginald, 180 Armstrong, Samuel, 174 Arnold, William McCullough, 114 Arrell, Harrison, 52 Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E., 215 Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, 127 Ashton, Major-General Ernest, 270 Askwith, John E., 106 Asselin, Major Olivar, 144