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
=Clute, Arthur Roger= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Belleville, Ont., on
August 24, 1874. He attended the Belleville Collegiate Institute, from
which he matriculated with honors in 1892, and thereupon entered the
University of Toronto, from which he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in
1896, with first-class honors, in the Department of Political Science
and History, having been awarded during his course one of the Alexander
Mackenzie Scholarships in that department. In 1901 he received from his
Alma Mater the Degree of LL.B. He was articled as a student at law to
his father, the Honorable Justice Clute, in 1896; and studied law at the
Law School at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, where he obtained first-class
honors and was awarded a scholarship in each year of his course,
together with medal upon his call to the Ontario Bar in June, 1899.
Since that time Mr. Clute has practised his profession in the city of
Toronto, and has acted for several years as examiner at the University
of Toronto, and at the Law School, and is now also a Lecturer at the
University of Toronto. In politics he is a Liberal.
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=Goodeve, Hon. Arthur Samuel= (Ottawa), Dominion Railway Commissioner,
English and Canadian origin, son of Arthur Henry and Caroline Goodeve,
born at Guelph, Ont., Dec. 15, 1860, where he received his education at
the Public Schools and Collegiate Institute. A graduate of the Ontario
College of Pharmacy. Mayor of Rossland, B.C., 1889-1900. Appointed
Provincial Secretary in the first Conservative Government in British
Columbia, June, 1903, the McBride Administration; resigned portfolio,
returned for Kootenay District, in the House of Commons, general
elections 1908, appointed a member of Timber and Forestry Commission,
B.C., 1909-10, a Conservative Whip, House of Commons, 1910; resigned
seat on being appointed a Dominion Railway Commissioner. Married, April,
1884, Ellen Elizabeth Spence, daughter of James Spence, Toronto; father
of four boys and two girls. Member of following clubs: Rideau, Ottawa,
and Rossland, B.C.; and the Masonic order, Blue, Chapter and Commandery.
A Presbyterian in religion. Before accepting his present office, Hon.
Mr. Goodeve was recognized as a formidable campaigner and painstaking
representative.
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