Produced by Mardi Desjardins & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net _ROSE’S NATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES. II._ A CYCLOPÆDIA OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY: BEING CHIEFLY MEN OF THE TIME. A COLLECTION OF PERSONS DISTINGUISHED IN PROFESSIONAL AND POLITICAL LIFE; LEADERS IN THE COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF CANADA, AND SUCCESSFUL PIONEERS. _EDITED BY_ GEO. MACLEAN ROSE. [Illustration] T o r o n t o : R O S E P U B L I S H I N G C O M P A N Y . 1888. Entered according to the Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, by HUNTER, ROSE & CO., at the department of Agriculture. PRINTED AND BOUND BY HUNTER, ROSE & CO., TORONTO. PREFACE. It has been too long a custom to regard as proper subjects for biographical literature only persons who have figured in political life. In preparing the present work, any man or woman who has, in any conspicuous way, contributed to the moral, intellectual, industrial or political growth of the country, has been deemed a suitable person for these pages. To the heroism and uncomplaining industry of the men who hewed out homes in the wilderness, and little by little overcame the obstacles of nature, are we indebted now for our thriving cities, and for our wide stretches of cultivated lands; and to omit a record of their labors, and select only for permanent record the deeds of those who came upon the scenes when the rugged work was done, would be singularly unjust. We have had, and still have amongst us, men of great genius in engineering skill, and in mechanical contrivance; and it was fitting that a brief record of their lives, and what they accomplished for the community, should be handed down in the history of our common country. The same may be said of men prominent in every branch of commerce, of our notable divines, our eminent judges, our great lawyers, our talented medical men, and those who have contributed to the educational growth of the country. These it was considered were worthy of place side by side with the men who chose political careers, and have won more or less distinction therein. There is to be said in justification of all these records, that even the history of the man in an obscure village is a portion of the history of the country, and the aggregate record of “Representative Canadians” may be regarded in a young country like Canada, as a full historical account, in every sense,