ON. WILFRED LAURIER,

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leader of the Liberal party of the Dominion, was born November 24th, 1841, at St. Lin, L'Assomption, Quebec. He comes of an old and distinguished family. After finishing his literary studies at the College L'Assomption, he entered the law office of the Hon. R. Laflamme. He was called to the Bar of Lower Canada in 1865, having taken in the previous year the degree of B.C.L. at McGill University. In 1880 he was appointed Q.C. From an early age Mr. Laurier took a deep interest in public questions, and also

gave his attention to literature and journalism. He was an earnest advocate of temperance, and delegate to the Dominion Prohibitory Convention of 1875. In 1871 he began public life by being elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec. He remained there until 1874, when he entered the House of Commons. At once on taking his seat his brilliant abilities and high character were acknowledged. When Mr. Mackenzie was called upon to form an administration, the portfolio of Inland Revenue was assigned him. Since that time Mr. Laurier has been one of the most prominent and highly

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respected members of the House. An unflinching supporter of the Opposition, under the Hon. Edward Blake as leader, whom he unanimously called upon to succeed. Since that time his exceptional ability, gentlemanly conduct, and comprehensive grasp of public affairs, has secured for him, not only the admiration of the Liberal party, but the respect of the government now in power. As a speaker he appears as one who recognizes responsibility attaching to every word he utters. He speaks with a very pure French accent, and is a most effective debater. During the political campaign of 1891 his labors were most abundant and successful, especially in his own province, where he changed the Government majority into a minority. Mr. Laurier was married to Miss Lafontaine May 13th, 1868.

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IGHT REV. JOHN WALSH, Archbishop of Toronto, was born in the parish of Mooncoin, Kilkenny County, Ireland, May 23rd, 1830, and is descended from a very old and influential stock. He received his education at St. John's College, Waterford, and the Seminary of the Sulpicians, Montreal. He was ordained in 1854, when he was appointed to the Brock Mission, Lake Simcoe. In 1857 he was appointed to St. Mary's, Toronto, and soon after the consecration of Bishop Lynch in 1859, he was summoned to aid him as rector of St. Michael's Cathedral, which position he filled for about two years. After this he resumed his administration of St. Mary's as Parish Priest and VicarGeneral of the diocese. Shortly after this, owing to the impaired health of the Bishop of Sandwich, it was found necessary to appoint a successor, accordingly the hierarchy of the ecclesiastical Province of Quebec unanimously nominated Vicar-General Walsh as bishop, which was ratified. by the Holy See. The consecration of His Lordship took place November 10th, 1867, in St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, with great pomp and ceremony. In this exalted office he displayed administrative talent of the highest order. 1863 he was removed from Sandwich to London and created Bishop of London in 1869. The new cathedral of that diocese may be termed the great work of his episcopate. His Lordship had long set his heart

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upon raising in God's honor a temple worthy the solemn and sublime rites of the Church of Christ, and the wish of his heart was realized fully, when, in June, 1885, the cathedral was solemnly dedicated. The cost of this splendid structure being somewhat over $140,000. In 1882 he visited Ireland, and, on his return to London, was tendered a reception, accompanied with a purse of $1,000, as a testimony of esteem. After the death of Archbishop Lynch, Bishop Walsh was made Archbishop of Toronto, which elevated office he still holds. He is held in high esteem by all classes, irrespective of creed.

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ON. OLIVER MOWAT, Q.C., M.P.P., LL.D., Premier of Ontario, was born at Kingston, Ont., July 22nd, 1820. His father came from Caitheneshire, Scotland, to Canada in 1816. Mr. Mowat received his education in Kingston, having among his fellow pupils Sir John A. Macdonald and the late Hon. John Hillyard Cameron. He began law with Mr. John A. Macdonald, then practicing in Kingston. In the Rebellion of 1837 young Mowat joined the Royalists. After four years he removed to Toronto, and completed his studies under Robert E. Burns. In 1841 he was called to the Bar, and entered into partnership with Mr. Burns, and subsequently with Mr. Vaukonghuet. He soon acquired a large practice. On the dissolution of the firm of Mowat & Vaukonghuet, he was associated with the firms of Mowat, Ewart & Helliwell, and Mowat, Roaf & Davis. About this time Mr. Mowat began to take a lively interest in politics, and entered the Liberal ranks as a pronounced, though constitu tional, Reformer. In 1856 he was created Q.C., and appointed to consolidate the General Statutes of Canada. He resigned this position in 1857, and was elected to the House of Assembly for South Ontario. In the brief administration of 1858 he was Provincial Secretary. In 1861 he was re-elected for South Ontario. He held the position of PostmasterGeneral under the Sandfield Macdonald-Dorion and

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Taché-Macdonald administrations. 1864 he was appointed to the Bench, and for eight years adorned the position. In 1872 he re-entered public life, and became Premier of Ontario, and has been representative of North Oxford from that date to the present. He enjoys the confidence of Ontario as an able, patriotic statesman, and despite of the local Opposition and Dominion Government, maintains his large majority. The many measures of legislation he has carried and his victories before the Privy Council of England are known to all. In religion he is a Presbyterian.

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EV. A. CARMAN, D. D., General Superintendent of the Methodist Church, was born at Iroquois, Township of Matilda, County of Dundas, Ontario, on June 27th, 1833, and was married to Mary Sisk, eldest daughter of James Sisk, on July 19th, 1860. His parents were Philip Carman, son of Captain Michael Carman, and Emeline Shaver, daughter of Colonel Peter Shaver, U. E. Loyalists. His great-grandparents came in with Sir Johnston's army after the revolutionary war, and settled in Matilda Township. Dr. Carman received his education at the Matilda Common

School, the Dundas County Grammar School, and then at Victoria College, Cobourg, which he entered in 1851 and graduated in 1854. During his busy professional life he has occupied many important positions. positions. From 1854 to 1857 he was head master of the Dundas County Grammar School; in 1857 and 1858 professor of mathematics in Belleville Seminary; from 1858 to 1874 he was principal of Belleville Seminary, president of Albert College, and chancellor of Albert University. From 1874 to 1883 he was Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, and in 1883 was elected General Super

intendent of the now united Methodist Church. He has also been principal of the Council of Public Instruction for Ontario; representative of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada; to the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States; and of the Methodist Church, to the same body. Dr. Carman is one of the most genial of ecclesiastics, and whether on the platform, in the presidential chair, in committee work, or in the pulpit, commands the full confidence and esteem of his brethren. The amount of work that he attends to is amazing, for since the death of the lamented Dr. Williams, his colleague, Dr. Carman has attended to the multifarious details of the former joint office. He is a powerful preacher, a writer of great force, but his distinguishing characteristic is probably, as a presiding officer and administrator, of ecclesiastical law.

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IR DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., F.R.S.E., president of University College, Toronto, was born in the ancient metropolis of Scotland in 1816. After passing through the High School, he entered the university of his native city. At the age of twenty-one he betook himself to London to push his fortunes. there. After a residence of several years, during which he relied for support chiefly on the rewards of literary work, he again turned his face northward and continued to wield the pen in Edinburgh. Sir Daniel was also then, and still is, distinguished by an ardent love for archæological studies; and naturally gravitated towards the society of antiquaries. Before his departure from Scotland three works proceeded from his pen--" Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time," "Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate," and "The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. This volume received the warmest praise from reviewers, both in Britain and America. In 1853 he was invited to accept the chair of History and English Literature in University College, Toronto. In 1862 his new work appeared-" Prehistoric Man; Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and New World;" "Chatterton; A Biographical Study," was published in 1869; "Calitan, the Missing Link," appeared in 1873, and during the same year he republished a collection of poems entitled "Spring Flowers." In 1878 Sir Daniel issued

his most recent work, "Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh." In addition to these works, he has contributed a number of articles, both to the eighth and ninth editions of the "Encyclopædia Britannica." Sir Daniel is connected with various public institutions in Toronto, such as the Boys' Home, the Newsboys' Home, and in the Young Men's Christian Association he has taken an active part, and was for some years its president. He is an earnest member of the Church of England and an ardent adherent of the Evangelical party, but his sympathies are too broad to be contained in any one church.