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
the conquest of the German Colony of the Cameroons, a territory covering
an area in all of 300,000 square miles. On New Year’s Day, 1916, the
order of C.M.G. was bestowed upon him by King George, and eventually, at
the close of the Cameroon Expedition, he received the honor of K.C.B.,
as well as the Legion of Honor from the President of the French
Republic, being at the same time gazetted as a Major-General of the
British Army. A still later event in his career as a “soldier of the
king” led to his being placed in command as Lieut.-General of the Coast
Forces that were to advance from the Suez Canal into Palestine.
Altogether Sir Charles Dobell’s career has been a splendid one. Hailing
as he does from a district in Canada that has provided several military
officers of high rank to the forces of the Motherland, his
fellow-Canadians cannot but be proud of the record made by one of their
own as a soldier and commander. He was married in 1908, to Mrs. (Elsye
Bankes) Campbell, daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Meyrick Bankes, of
London, and widow of Captain F. L. Campbell, R.N. His two brothers, Mr.
William Molson Dobell, lumber merchant, and Mr. Alfred Dobell, advocate,
as well as his uncle, Mr. William Molson Macpherson, banker, are
prominent citizens of the city of Quebec.
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=Garneau, Sir George=, formerly Mayor of Quebec City, and one of the
prominent merchants and capitalists of that city, who has been for many
years President of the National Battlefields Commission, is a son of the
late Hon. Pierre Garneau, Member of the Legislative Council of the
Province of Quebec, and several times member of the Provincial Cabinet.
On the mother’s side he was a grandson of Mr. Edward Burroughs, the
Prothonotary. Sir George is a native of Quebec, having been born on
November 19, 1864. He received his earlier education at the Quebec
Seminary, afterwards entering as a student the Montreal Polytechnic
School, where he graduated as Civil Engineer, in 1884. Four years
afterwards he took the degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Laval
University, where for a period he was Titular Professor of Analytical
Chemistry. For a time he held the position of assistant engineer on the
construction staff of the Quebec and Lake St. John Railway, previous to
his being taken in as a partner in his father’s wholesale dry goods
establishment. Aside from his business pursuits, he identified himself
with civic affairs, and on being elected alderman, he was chosen as
Mayor in 1906, and at the close of his term was unanimously re-elected
for a second term of two years. It was while he was Mayor that he became
Chairman of the National Battlefields Commission, in 1908. During that
year there occurred the Tercentennial Celebration of the founding of
Quebec. In association with Earl Grey, he was prominently identified
with the supervision of the preliminaries to that Celebration, and has
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