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
=Marnoch, George Robert=, President Board of Trade, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, February 19, 1873, son of George R. and
Barbara Marnoch. Educated at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. Engaged
in the commercial side of mechanical engineering, Scotland, and in
Ceylon, also, in connection with the growing and export of tea, rubber
and tropical products, and in the supplying of the building and
engineering requirements of tea and rubber estates, as well as the
supplying of fertilizers for these crops, 1896-1910; came to Canada,
1910; President (honorary office) Lethbridge Board of Trade, 1914;
re-elected 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1919; Member of Joint Committee of
Commerce and Agriculture (The Committee of 25 business men and 25
leading farmers) of Western Canada; Vice-President, Western Canada
Irrigation Association; vice-chairman (honorary office) Victory Loan
Southern Alberta, 1917, 1918. Married Harriet Lund Macdonald (deceased),
daughter of Alexander Macdonald, October 10, 1904; has one daughter.
Club: Chinook. Independent in politics. Residence, Sherlock Building,
Lethbridge, Alberta.
[Illustration: BRIG.-GEN. SIR JOHN M. GIBSON, K.C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., K.C.
Hamilton]
=Wright, William J.=, the late school principal (St. Mary’s, Ont.), gave
his life for his country while serving in the great war as Lieutenant of
the 19th Canadian Batt., C.E.F., in France. He enlisted with the 110th
Perth Batt., in January, 1916, and was transferred to the 19th Canadian
Battalion October, 1916. He was killed in action on August 18, 1917,
while fighting against the Prussians in the battle of Hill 70 outside
Lens, and is buried in the military cemetery at Fosse 10, a short
distance from Bully-Grenay, France. He was born in Oxford County, Ont.,
the son of George and Emma Wright, of St. Mary’s, Ont., was educated at
St. Mary’s Public School and the Collegiate Institute. Then he attended
Toronto University, graduating in 1896 with the degree of B.A., and in
1897 was granted the degree of M.A.; was the winner of the Edward Blake
Matriculation Scholarship and also won the Governor-General’s Gold Medal
of the Toronto University in 1895. He was Principal of Niagara High
School from 1904 to 1909 and from there went to Forest, Ont., becoming
Principal of the High School of that town until 1913, when he became
Principal of the Collegiate Institute of St. Mary’s, Ont., and at the
time of his death was Principal-on-leave. Lieut. Wright was a frequent
contributor to the local papers and the author of articles on Canadian
literature, and the study of poetry in an American encyclopædia. He was
married to Mary Edith, the daughter of Mr. David Robertson, of Fenelon
Falls, and left three of a family. He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church and an Independent in politics, with a strong leaning towards
Liberalism; a member of the Niagara Historical Society and fraternally a
Mason.
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