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.
Toronto:
ROSE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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 biographicalliterature only persons who have figured in political life. In preparingthe present work, any man or woman who has, in any conspicuous way,contributed to the moral, intellectual, industrial or political growth of thecountry, has been deemed a suitable person for these pages. To the heroismand uncomplaining industry of the men who hewed out homes in the wilderness,and little by little overcame the obstacles of nature, are we indebtednow 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 recordthe deeds of those who came upon the scenes when the rugged work wasdone, would be singularly unjust. We have had, and still have amongst us,men of great genius in engineering skill, and in mechanical contrivance; andit was fitting that a brief record of their lives, and what they accomplishedfor the community, should be handed down in the history of our commoncountry. The same may be said of men prominent in every branch of commerce,of our notable divines, our eminent judges, our great lawyers, ourtalented medical men, and those who have contributed to the educationalgrowth of the country. These it was considered were worthy of place sideby side with the men who chose political careers, and have won more or les