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DOLPHE G. TOURANGEAU, ex-mayor and ex-M.P., Quebec, Que., was born in that city, January 15th, 1831. He is a son of the late Jean G. Tourangeau, a J.P., notary public, and an alderman in Quebec city. Mr. Tourangeau was educated at the Quebec Seminary and at the Quebec High School. He studied law under the Hon. Louis Panet and followed the law course of Laval University from its opening, in 1853, until he was admitted to practice in 1855. He was frequently elected to the Board of Notaries, and was appointed by the council notary for the corporation of Quebec. He

held that position until he resigned, in 1883, to accept the postmastership of Quebec, offered to him. Mr. Tourangeau is Lieut-Col. of militia. He has been mayor of the city several times. He was elected in 1870 and again in 1872 to represent Quebec East in the House of Commons, but was defeated by Hon. Wilfrid Laurier, in 1877, after a very hot and close contest. He was a member of the Quebec Harbor Commission; a director of the North Shore Railway; a director of the Gosford (afterwards the Lake St. John) Railway and a provisional director of the Stadacona Bank, the charter of which he procured through parliament. It was during his mayoralty and by his assistance that a regular steam ferry between Quebec and Lévis was established and the street railway and fire alarm telegraph. were first operated in Quebec. During his regime the acts concerning the Quebec incorporation were amended and consolidated, the city debt consolidated, the fiscal year made to agree with house rents, and the city's finances placed on a sound basis. In politics he gave his support to the Liberal party until his fourth election as mayor in 1869, when he gave his confidence to the Conservative party. He is now (1892) apparently in the prime of life and bids fair to give many more years of valuable service to his native city. Mr. Tourangeau was married, in 1861, to Miss Victoria A., daughter of the late Augustus Jourdain, Esq.

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barrister and county registrar of the firm of Gibson and Clute, Napanee, Ont., was born in Cornwall, England, March 23rd, 1837. He is descended from a Scottish family of sterling character and marked ability, and looks back upon his ancestry for several generations, with pardonable pride. Mr. Gibson acquired a thorough knowledge of the common branches of education in the public schools in his native land, but not having access to advanced schools, he determined to educate himself. From his general reading, he acquired a desire to see and know something of the outside world, and in the spring of 1858 came to Canada. He almost immediately located in Cobourg and made that place his home for a few years while looking around to determine his future course. During the summer he was engaged in the forwarding business, which gave him a large commercial acquaintance from Kingston to Chicago. He spent the winter months in preparing to enter Victoria University which he subsequently attended, and by forced work kept up the year's course during the winter session. In 1863 Mr. Gibson determined to study law, and passed the matriculation examination that year. After this, he served for one year in the office of Wm. Kerr, Q.C., in Cobourg, and spent the next four years in the law office of W. H. R. Allison, at Picton. He was admitted to practice in 1868, and called to the

bar in 1869. He shortly after this located in Napanee and began practice for himself. He soon acquired an important connection, and has since continued to conduct a very large business and has become one of the best known legal men in this part of the province. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M. Masonic and Odd Fellows societies. In religion Mr. Gibson is a Methodist; in politics an active Liberal and president of the Reform Association. married in September, 1870, to Miss Mary E. A., daughter of R. R. Clute, Esq., of Stirling, and sister of R. C. Clute, Q.C., Belleville, Ont.

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HOMAS HULLS HUDSON,resident Canadian manager of the United Fire Insurance Company, Ltd., of Manchester, England, Montreal, Que., was born in London, England, November 3rd, 1854. He is a son of George R. Hudson, and was educated in London. He came to Canada in 1875, and entered the fire insurance business, and from the start exhibited an intense interest, and more than ordinary aptness in that line of work. He has had a large experience and an efficient training in fire underwriting, and is one of the rising insurance men in the Dominion of Canada. The com

pany of which he is manager has recently acquired, by purchase, the Canadian business of the City of London Insurance Company, thereby greatly adding to its already large established connection. The subscribed capital of the United Fire Insurance Company is $1,250,000, of which $500,000 is paid up. It has in addition to capital, cash on hand amounting to $782,500. The "United Fire" expects to not only take the place of the City of London, but to do an extended general business. Judging from Manager Hudson's past record, he will doubtless keep his company well in the foreground.

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EV. CHAS. HENRY MARSH, rector of St. Paul's Church, Lindsay, Ont., was born at Holland Landing, Ontario, September 23rd, 1854. He is the son of William J. Marsh, the founder of Clarksburg, Ont., and for many years a justice of the peace. Mr. Marsh obtained his primary education at the public school at Clarksburg, from which he passed under the tuition of Rev. Wm. Logan at Millbank, Ont., for two years. He subsequently took a four years' course at Wycliffe College, graduating in 1881. His first charge was at Otonabee where he was curate for one year. He was next

appointed to Rosemont, where he was incumbent for nearly four years, after which he was curate at Orillia for one year. He was appointed to his present charge in October, 1887. His labors in Lindsay have been most successful and his ministry greatly appreciated by his people, whose interests he never fails to bear in mind. Mr. Marsh is a man of marked ability, man of marked ability, great energy, and of a very genial disposition, which causes him to be honored and beloved wherever known. He was married December 13th, 1887, to Miss E. C. Wilgress, daughter of George Wilgress, of Cobourg.

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ILLIAM MACLEAN, manager of the Union Loan and Savings Company, Toronto, Ont., was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1824, and came to this country in 1856. He received his education at the public and high schools in his native land. Between 1839 and 1844 he received his early business and professional training in a solicitor's office in Keith, an advocate's office in Aberdeen, and in Sir Archibald Alison's office, Glasgow. Prior to coming to Canada he filled several important positions in the head offices of the Aberdeen Railway during its construction. His three last years

in Scotland were spent as general auditor and chief traffic accountant of the Great North of Scotland Railway Company. Mr. Maclean was sent out to this country by the London board of directors of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway, to fill the position of Secretary and treasurer of that company, with headquarters at Brantford, Ontario. He filled this position until 1867 and greatly facilitated the amalgamation with the Grand Trunk Railway Co., which took place in that He was year. also a director of the B. & L. H. Ry. Co. and was mainly instrumental, with the late Hon. David Christie, Mr. Allan

Cleghorn and the Hon. E. B. Wood, late chief justice of Manitoba, in securing for the B. & L. H., control of the International Bridge Charter, of which company he was a provisional director, and for some time prior, secretary and treasurer. Immediately after the amalgamation, Mr. Maclean removed to Toronto and accepted the management of the Union Loan and Savings Company, then in its infancy, which he has now successfully conducted for over a quarter of a century. He is amongt the best known authorities on matters of finance in the Dominion of Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Maclean are, in religion, Methodists, having connected themselves with that body, under the late J. B. Howard in Brantford in 1857. They have been connected with Elm Street and latterly Carlton Street since they located in Toronto in 1867.