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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

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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

=Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, K.C.= (Yorkton, Saskatchewan), one
of the best known barristers of that province, was born at Ilderton,
Ont., June 28, 1873, the son of George B. and Alecia Patrick, both
deceased. His father was a farmer and the son was educated at the
Collegiate Institute and Model School, London, Ont. Later he took a
course at the Normal School, Regina, in 1896, and taught school for six
years, concurrently taking up the study of law with Mr. Gifford Elliott,
of Yorkton, in 1899. Subsequently, in 1903, he entered the office of
George W. Watson, Yorkton, and in 1904 that of the late Hon. G. W.
Brown, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan. In the latter year he was
called to the bar and since 1905 has practised in Yorkton. He is at
present head of the firm of Patrick, Doherty, Killam & Walton. He was
created King’s Counsel in 1913, is ex-President of the Law Society of
Saskatchewan and has been a Bencher of that body since 1906. He is also
a member of the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Patrick
has also taken a prominent part in public affairs and was Mayor of
Yorkton for four terms, 1908-9 and 1913-4, and President of the Board of
Trade from 1910 to 1913, inclusive. Earlier he held the post of Public
School Trustee from 1906 to 1909, inclusive. He is a Conservative in
politics and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature at the
provincial elections of 1917. He is also a member of the Executive of
the Navy League of Saskatchewan, and of the Executive of the Canadian
Patriotic Society for that province. In religion he is a Methodist and a
Governor of Regina College, affiliated with that religious body. He is a
Past Grand Master for his province of the I.O.O.F., and his recreations
are big game hunting and farming. On Oct. 15, 1905, he married Sadie
Pearl, a daughter of the late William A. Hawkins, retired contractor, of
Yorkton, Sask., and has six children, William Alexander, John Arden,
Ethel Cecilia, Sadie Alecia, Hugh-Arthur and Mona Ione.




[Illustration: T. B. MACAULAY
Montreal]

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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

=Patrick, John Alexander Macdonald, K.C.= (Yorkton, Saskatchewan), one
of the best known barristers of that province, was born at Ilderton,
Ont., June 28, 1873, the son of George B. and Alecia Patrick, both
deceased. His father was a farmer and the son was educated at the
Collegiate Institute and Model School, London, Ont. Later he took a
course at the Normal School, Regina, in 1896, and taught school for six
years, concurrently taking up the study of law with Mr. Gifford Elliott,
of Yorkton, in 1899. Subsequently, in 1903, he entered the office of
George W. Watson, Yorkton, and in 1904 that of the late Hon. G. W.
Brown, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan. In the latter year he was
called to the bar and since 1905 has practised in Yorkton. He is at
present head of the firm of Patrick, Doherty, Killam & Walton. He was
created King’s Counsel in 1913, is ex-President of the Law Society of
Saskatchewan and has been a Bencher of that body since 1906. He is also
a member of the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Patrick
has also taken a prominent part in public affairs and was Mayor of
Yorkton for four terms, 1908-9 and 1913-4, and President of the Board of
Trade from 1910 to 1913, inclusive. Earlier he held the post of Public
School Trustee from 1906 to 1909, inclusive. He is a Conservative in
politics and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Legislature at the
provincial elections of 1917. He is also a member of the Executive of
the Navy League of Saskatchewan, and of the Executive of the Canadian
Patriotic Society for that province. In religion he is a Methodist and a
Governor of Regina College, affiliated with that religious body. He is a
Past Grand Master for his province of the I.O.O.F., and his recreations
are big game hunting and farming. On Oct. 15, 1905, he married Sadie
Pearl, a daughter of the late William A. Hawkins, retired contractor, of
Yorkton, Sask., and has six children, William Alexander, John Arden,
Ethel Cecilia, Sadie Alecia, Hugh-Arthur and Mona Ione.




[Illustration: T. B. MACAULAY
Montreal]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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

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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