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
elected, in 1913, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute of London,
England, for life. Mr. Lemieux is an eloquent platform speaker and has
frequently rendered services to his party. He married Esther Barbeau,
daughter of the late Henry Barbeau, General Manager of the City and
District Savings Bank and Assistant Receiver-General, Montreal, in
October, 1899, and has one son and two daughters. He resides at 16
Somerset Street West.
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=Lawlor, H. W.= (Hawkesbury, Ont.), was born at Hawkesbury, September
12, 1863, of Irish and American parentage. The son of Richard Lawlor, of
Hawkesbury, for many years Coroner of this district, and grandson of
William Lawlor, for over forty years manager for Hamilton Bros., and
Sarah Hersey, daughter of Z. S. M. Hersey, a New England pioneer, who
settled in Hawkesbury shortly after the British-American War of 1812,
and who at the time of his death was the town’s most prominent citizen;
he was educated in the Provincial Schools and graduated from Osgoode
Hall in law in 1890. In 1896, was appointed agent for the Justice
Department in his district, and has conducted some important litigation
on behalf of the Crown, the most prominent being the Exchequer Court
Case of Stewart vs. King, in which the late B. B. Osler made his last
public appearance. He has been Police Magistrate of Hawkesbury for over
eighteen years and has never had a conviction appealed or quashed. Has
been Local Solicitor for the Canadian Northern Railway since the date of
its construction; is Town Solicitor and also Solicitor for the several
banking institutions. Has never entered Municipal politics, but has sat
on the Board of Education; was first President of Hawkesbury Board of
Trade. Is a Presbyterian and a Liberal-Unionist.
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