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
arose, he was a strong advocate of justice to the minority, and after
some differences with his colleagues, he resigned the Premiership on
April 27, 1896. He was succeeded by Sir Charles Tupper, who paid him the
compliment of adopting his policy. In 1893, during his incumbency as
Minister of Trade and Commerce, he went to Australia to promote
inter-Imperial trade and the laying of an all-British Pacific cable
between Canada and that continent. Early in 1896 he went to England to
urge forward the Canadian-Australia or “all-red” cable, now an
accomplished fact, and sat in the third congress on the subject which
met in London, England. In 1896 he resumed the active control of the
“Belleville Intelligencer,” which he had relinquished when he entered
Sir John A. Macdonald’s Cabinet in 1878. In Belleville he was regarded
as the “grand old man,” and no Canadian boasted a wider circle of
friends in the country at large. The amiability of his nature, his large
intellectual capacity and his ability as a public speaker, marked him
for distinction. In religion he was a Methodist, and was married in
December, 1847, to Harriet Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Jacob G.
Moore, of Belleville. His helpmate died in 1884, and he followed her to
the grave in 1918. Of nine children born to them, five survive.
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=Langley, James P.= (Toronto), was born in the Provincial Capital on
June 15, 1864, and educated in Toronto, graduating from the Model School
in 1877. Son of Aylmer Langley and Alice (Thornber), his father being a
native of Ireland and his mother born in New York State. The subject of
this sketch early developed a marked ability as an expert accountant and
was one of the early members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of Ontario, an institution which has done much to stimulate the study of
higher accounting and to keep pace with the commercial and municipal
necessities of the day, and is a Fellow of the Institute so founded. Mr.
Langley is recognized as a man with a large and intimate knowledge of
industrial and financial enterprises, and his services are in constant
requisition by such institutions throughout the Dominion. He is retained
annually as the auditor of many leading business concerns, and is
trustee of large estates, his extended experience making his advice
particularly dependable. Mr. Langley married Carrie, daughter of Nathan
Brower, of New Jersey, U.S., and has one son, Clarence Aylmer. He is a
member of the Masonic order and of the Granite and Albany Clubs,
Toronto. He is also a Justice of the Peace; a member of the Church of
England. Politically he is a Liberal-Conservative. Recreations, motoring
and golf. Mr. Langley is one of the best known business men in the
province and enjoys the confidence of the mercantile community in a
marked degree.
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