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
=Chadwick, Edward Marion, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born at Cravendale,
Township of Ancaster, Ont., Sept. 22, 1840, and is the third son of the
late John Craven Chadwick, Guelph, Ont. He received a thorough
scholastic training. The bend of his mind being in the direction of the
law, he pursued his studies therefor, and was called to the Bar and
associated himself with the late W. H. Beatty, and has been a partner in
the firms successively formed by him in which many prominent members of
the legal profession have been partners, during a period of more than
fifty years, the firms being recognized as among the most important
engaged in their profession in Ontario. While perhaps it is unnecessary
to say anything here as to Mr. Chadwick’s ability as an author, we
cannot refrain from noting the publication of a work entitled “Ontarian
Families” (1894), being the genealogies of United Empire Loyalist and
other pioneer families of Upper Canada; he has also been a writer for
magazines on heraldic subjects, in which he is reputed to be the leading
authority on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Chadwick was for a number of
years an officer in the Queen’s Own Rifles, retiring in 1882, with the
rank of Major. For the last forty years Mr. Chadwick has been identified
with church work, being an indefatigable worker, and he at present holds
the important office of Treasurer of St. Alban’s Cathedral.
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=Hackett, Edward= (Orangeville, Ont.), was born at Ballinasloe, County
Galway, Ireland, son of the late William and Mary Hackett. He was
educated at Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Santry School, Dublin,
graduating from the Royal University in the Irish Capital in 1905, with
the degree of B.A., and is recognized as being one of the prominent
educationalists of the Province of Ontario. Mr. Hackett came to Canada
in 1908, and before leaving Ireland, was Senior Mathematical Master in
the Blue Coat School, Dublin, an institution which was established by
Charles the Second. He attended the Faculty of Toronto University, and
taught mathematics in the Galt Collegiate Institute for the year
1909-10, also at Meaford High School for four years (1911-15), and
succeeded as principal the late Alexander Steele, who had been the head
of the Orangeville High School for upwards of thirty years, the present
staff consisting of five teachers and the splendid standing and prestige
of the school being maintained under his principalship. In 1914,
Principal Hackett married Winnifred, the daughter of Dr. J. G. Clarke,
of Meaford. He is a member of the Canadian Club of Orangeville, and
Chairman of the Public Library Board, and is a member of the Masonic,
Oddfellows and Orange Orders. He is an adherent of the Church of
England, and a Liberal-Conservative in politics. Recognizing the
usefulness of the Cadet movement he has taken the course prescribed for
instructors and the Orangeville High School Cadets have attained much
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