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
Hamilton. In politics he is independent and in religion an Anglican. On
June 8, 1900, he married Edith Julia, daughter of the late Aubrey White,
C.M.G., for many years Deputy Minister of Lands and Mines for Ontario.
He has three sons, Aubrey Wilton, born July 6, 1908, Frank Wilton, born
November 4, 1913, and James Wilton, born December 1, 1918; and two
daughters, Marion Wilton, born April 23, 1901, and Edith Wilton, born
October 1, 1904. He resides at 146 Crescent Road, Toronto.
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=McCuaig, Clarence James= (Montreal, P.Q.), Stockbroker. Born in Quebec
City September 1, 1855, educated at Ontario College, Picton. Married
Emma Margaret, daughter of the late J. C. Rykert, Q.C., St. Catharines,
Ont., and has three sons: Lieut.-Col. D. Rykert McCuaig, D.S.O.,
Brig.-General G. Eric McCuaig, C.M.G., D.S.O., and Major Clarence N.
McCuaig. Mr. McCuaig is Honorary Colonel of the 53rd Regiment. In 1896
he bought a seat in the Montreal Stock Exchange, the firm later becoming
McCuaig Bros. & Co., in which the three sons are partners. He organized
the Sherbrooke Railway & Power Company and the Southern Canada Power
Company, of both of which he was President, but retired from these
positions to devote himself to the business of the firm during the
absence of his three sons overseas. He is a director of the Ottawa
Light, Heat & Power Co., and is a member of St. James, Canada, Montreal,
Hunt, Forest & Stream, Royal St. Lawrence, and Royal Montreal Golf Clubs
in Montreal, and of the Rideau Club, Ottawa. He is a Protestant in
religion and a Conservative in politics.
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