as well as at similar events in Boston, Philadelphia and other cities. He is a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and of many social organizations in that city, including the Mount Royal, St. James, Montreal Hunt, Forest and Stream, Montreal Jockey, Canada, and Canadian Clubs, as well as of St. Andrew’s Society. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion. On April 23, 1888, married Mabel G., daughter of the late Sir Hugh Allan, K.C.B., of Montreal, by whom he has had three children, Enid, Phoebie and Archie (deceased). * * * * * =Coats, Robert Hamilton=, Dominion Statistician and Controller of the Census, is one of the live wires in the employ of the Dominion Government. At college, in journalism, as an author and a writer on economic subjects, and as a Civil Service employee, he has distinguished himself and proved his worth. He captured the Bankers’ Scholarship in Economics and the Wyld Prize in English at the Toronto University; and from the time of his graduation in 1896, taking the degree of B.A. in Classics, to the present, he has given tangible evidence of his literary and constructive ability. Having served on the staff of the “Toronto World” and the Toronto “Globe” from 1898 to 1901, in January, 1902, he became Associate Editor of the “Labor Gazette,” the journal of the Department of Labor, afterwards editor, and continued in that capacity until 1914. On the death of Mr. Archibald Blue, in 1915, he succeeded that gentleman as Census Commissioner. Within a brief period afterwards, largely as a development of Mr. Coats’ constructive work, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics was established by Act of Parliament, and its value to the State, under Mr. Coats’ direction, is duly recognized. Robert Hamilton Coats is the son of Robert Coats, merchant, and Mary Park. He was born in Clinton, Ontario, July 25, 1874, and was educated at the Toronto University (B.A., 1896). He is a contributor to the “Journal of Economics” and other economic reviews; joint author with R. E. Gosnell of “The Life of Sir James Douglas” (Makers of Canada Series), 1908; author of “The Labor Movement in Canada,” and of “Special Reports on Prices in Canada, 1890-1909-10-11-12 and 13.” In 1912 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission of Official Statistics of Canada, and in 1914 a member of the Cost of Living Commission. Mr. Coats is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of England, of the American Statistical Association, of the American Economic Association, and of the Canadian Political Science Association. In June, 1905, Mr. Coats married Marie Halboister, of Paris, France. For recreation he favors canoeing and ski-ing. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and resides at 176 Manor Avenue, Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa. * * * * *