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
=Tourigny, Alfred F. X.=, Advocate (Magog, Que.), was born at Batiscan,
Champlain County, Que., the son of a farmer, L. E. Tourigny and Eugenie
Trudel, who is a sister of the Honorable F. X. A. Trudel. Deciding to
get a thorough education, he studied at Three Rivers, Que., and
graduated with the degree of B.A. He studied law at Laval University,
and graduated with the degree of LL.B. On August 10, 1898, he married
Clara Marchand, the daughter of Louis Marchand, manufacturer, of Ste.
Genevieve de Batiscan, Que., and has eight children—Olivier, Charles
Edouard, Alfred, Anselme, Henri, Louis, Claire and Ives. In religion he
is a Roman Catholic and a Conservative in politics, and at the present
time he is Secretary-Treasurer of the town of Magog.
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=Widdifield, John W.=, Agriculturist (Uxbridge, Ont.), comes from
Pennsylvania and New Jersey stock and is of United Empire Loyalist
descent. After he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College, he
returned “to the land,” on the farm which had been homesteaded by the
family for five generations; another branch of the family, the Lundys,
pioneering on historic soil in the Niagara peninsula during this time.
He has served as Reeve of Uxbridge Township, as Ontario County
Councillor, as editor of the “O.A.C. Review,” as Secretary of the North
Ontario Farmers’ Institute, and as Chairman of the County Committee on
Agriculture. Mr. Widdifield has been a frequent contributor to the
press, besides travelling extensively as a lecturer on Agricultural and
Natural Science topics. In the general elections of 1914 he contested
North Ontario in the Liberal interests, unsuccessfully, against Hon. W.
H. Hoyle, Speaker of the Ontario Legislature. At the by-elections for
the Ontario Legislature in Feb., 1919, as an Independent Farmers’
Candidate, he again entered the lists, at this time successfully
contesting the riding with Major Harry S. Cameron. Born in Uxbridge
Township, March 16, 1869, the son of Watson P. and Annie (Frankish)
Widdifield, he was educated at the Uxbridge High School and Ontario
Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., being admitted to the status of
A.O.A.C. in 1894, and granted the Degree of B.S.A. by Toronto University
in the following year. He married Lucy, daughter of Cornelius Dike, July
3, 1895, and has one daughter, Annie Enid Widdifield, born July 24,
1896.
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=Watt, John Ralston=, Barrister (Claresholm, Alta.), was born in 1875 at
Ayr, Scotland, and educated at Ayr Academy, Wimbledon and the Glasgow
and Cambridge Universities. Graduated in 1896 with the degree of B.A.
(Cantab.), is a director of the Alberta Agricultural Fairs Association
and Secretary of Claresholm Agricultural Society; has written on “The
Turf” and other subjects to various periodicals in Canada, the United
States and Great Britain under the signature of “Craignorth.” In 1914 he
was married to Jessie G. Young.
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