“Many years ago Sir Thomas, as he was then, arrived in Winnipeg depot with a party, and an inexperienced reporter at once picked him out as the leader. His dress, his quick manner, his general appearance, his commanding demeanour, his attitude, all indicated and revealed his position. As to his dress, President Shaughnessy seemed on every occasion that I ever saw him as though he had just stepped from the band box. Everything he wore looked as though put on that moment for the first time. No one would, however, suggest that he was overdressed, but just perfectly, as the successful head of a great corporation should be. “In his general appearance Sir Thomas was the incarnation of prosperous big business. In nearly twenty years’ reporting around the Canadian Pacific depot, and later about the Royal Alexandra Hotel, I met no Eastern banker, railway executive, manufacturer, statesman, or other who seemed to personify and embody what is known as the business power of the East as he did.” It was this appearance and type of the President that gave _Punch_ the opportunity to make the famous cartoon, “The Canadian Pacific.” The cartoon was just a fine upstanding photograph of Lord Shaughnessy. He was an embodiment of the vast system of transportation, and _Punch_ had caught the right idea, as usual. Generally speaking, the opinion of many—perhaps of most people, about Lord Shaughnessy—was that he was a keen, swift and rather hard man. He could be all that on occasion, and he was usually dignified in his manner, as became the head of a great enterprise. But those who knew him well say he was one of the kindest of men. Temperamentally he was generous, and was always ready to give assistance to those in need, or, as George Ham put it, Shaughnessy helped many “a lame dog over the stile,” and said nothing about it. But the fact remains that the popular impression, as we have indicated, was that he was keen and rather hard and that impression was a quite wrong deduction, due to his distinguished manner and detached attitude. It is well to remember that he was head of an immense army, and that discipline requires a certain amount of dignity in the officer commanding. To have that and also to possess the warm human heart is to have an ideal officer, like “The Beloved Captain,” as painted for us in Donald Hankey’s famous book of war experiences. Here again I quote from the article written by Mr. Ross as it illustrates well the many-sidedness of the dignified railway President. Mr. Ross says: