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TIEUT.-COL. J. BELL FORSYTH, Collector of Customs, Quebec, was born in Quebec, June, 1830. He is the son of the late James Bell Forsyth, for many years a prominent. merchant of Quebec, who was born in Kingston, Ont., and whose father, Joseph Forsyth, came from Huntly, Aberdeenshire (where the family has resided for centuries), about the year 1809. His mother was Fanny Bell, second daughter of the Hon. Matthew Bell, of Three Rivers, Que., and of Samson, Northumberland, Eng., who also came to this country about the same year. Forsyth was educated at Dr. Lundy's Quebec Classical School, and at Lennoxville. He also spent a short time in Paris. He was for many years previous to becoming collector of Customs, a commission merchant and broker, confining his attentions almost exclusively to the timber trade. At the same time, he ever took an active interest in all public affairs, civil, political, military and religious. As a president or director of a horticultural or an agricultural society, a bridge, railway company or club, we find his name in every part of a Quebec directory. He has been a consistent Conservative, as his father and grandfathers were, and on more than one occasion in stirring times, he was earnestly solicited to stand for the county of Quebec, for, we are told, "he is as popular with the French Canadians as with the old countrymen," and in the French parish of Cap Rouge, where he

resided for many years at "Redclyffe, he was elected mayor again and again by his French friends. In military matters, he has always taken a deep interest, and for years has commanded the Queen's Own Canadian Hussars, originally raised and commanded by his grandfather, the Hon. Matthew Bell, in 1810-'11. He is a member of the Church of England, and takes his seat in both the Provincial and Diocesan Synods. Colonel Forsyth married Elizabeth Magdalene, only daughter of the late Thomas B. Anderson, of Montreal, for many years president of the Bank of Montreal.

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W. WANLESS, M.C.R. agent, Courtright, Ont., was born June 15th, 1839, in Blairgowrie, Scotland. He is the eldest son of Dr. J. Wanless, a prominent physician at present of Montreal, but also well known in London and Toronto. Dr. Wanless and his wife, Margaret Macdonald, natives of Dundee, Scotland, have always taken a deep interest in every worthy cause in the different cities in which they have resided. They have had three sons and two daughters, viz.: Violet now Mrs. A. A. Dickson, of Montreal, Wm. Macdonald Wanless, of St. Catharines; the subject of this sketch, the late Dr. John R. Wanless, who died in 1889 in New Zealand, and Agnina, at home with her parents. After completing his education Mr. Wanless entered the service of Mr. H. P. Dwight, as telegraph operator, and after filling various responsible positions in Canada and California, he was selected as one of the expedition sent out by the Russo-American Telegraph Company, build a line from Victoria, B.C., to existing lines in Russia, by way of the Behring Straits, and the shores of the Behring and Okhotsk seas. They sailed from Frisco, touched at Victoria, and in three months landed at Petropaulovski, Kamtchatka. After eighteen months' hardship and adventure in the Siberian wilds, during which Mr. Wanless met and became the intimate friend of Geo. Kennan and his artist Geo. Frost in his "Exile Prison

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Life in Siberia." The work was abandoned on receiving news that the atlantic cable was a success. After three years farming, Mr. Wanless entered the employ of the M. C. R., first at Fletcher, then a Cayuga, and for the past eighteen years at Courtright, to leave which pleasant summer resort, repeated offers of promotion have no charm for him. On January 19th, 1869, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of J. D. Anderson, of Wardsville, Ont. He has four children. In politics, Mr. Wanless is a staunch Liberal and a firm believer in Free Trade. He is also a member of the I.O.F.

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INCENT HOWARD MOORE, physician and surgeon, Brockville, Ont., was born in the township of Elizabethtown, Leeds county, Ont., February 4th, 1848. His father, Richard Moore, was a native of Wexford county, Ireland, and came to Canada when a mere lad, and died at the age of 85 years. His mother is still living at the age of 91 years (1893), in remarkably good health. Dr. Moore was educated in the public schools and at the old Brockville Grammar School. He obtained the degree of M.D. from Queen's College in 1870. In 1890, the Royal College of Physicians and Sur

geons of Kingston, conferred the fellowship of that body upon him. In 1884, he was elected a member of the Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, by Queen's College, re-elected twice since. In 1889, he was vice-president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and president in 1890. During that year he went abroad, visiting European centres of medical education, and was present at Berlin at the meeting of the International Medical Congress. He was also present at the ninth meeting of the Congress held at Washington in 1887. He is a member of Queen's

University Council, and was examiner in surgery for the same institution in 1887 and 1888, and examiner in anatomy for the same in 1888 and 1889, and examiner in surgery in 1889 and 1890. Dr. Moore has been for several years a member of the Brockville Collegiate Institute Board, and is surgeon of the 41st Battalion of Rifles, and vice-president for Ontario of the Association of Military Medical Officers for the Dominion of Canada. He has been vicepresident of the Ontario Medical Association, and is a member of the Masonic body, and has held every office in the lodge, and also in the Chapter and Knight Templars. He is an adherherent of the Presbyterian Church, and a Conservative in politics, taking an active interest in the welfare of the party. He was married to Margaret O. Burnham, May 12th, 1874. His family consists of two children.

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OSEPH ÉMILE VANIER, Montreal, Que., was born at Terrebonne, P. Q., on 20th of January, 1858. His father was Émilien Vanier, and his mother Lucie Soucy. He was educated at the Jacques Cartier Normal School, in Montreal, then went through the commercial course of the Catholic Commercial Academy. He afterwards graduated as a Civil Engineer at the Polytechnic School. After graduation, he started in Montreal at municipal work, especially in the line of street paving, and also on the Hochelaga system of sewerage. In 1878, he was called by Mr. P. Beaudry, brother

of the late mayor of Montreal, to go to Los Angeles, Cal., to assist in the construction of the water works of that city. He returned to Montreal in 1879, and has since practiced there as a civil engineer. He has had charge of all the municipal works, such as water, sewerage, paving, electric lighting, and nearly everything connected with the municipalities which surround Montreal, as well as most of the other small towns in the Province of Quebec. Mr. Vanier is a late member of the Council of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, professor of geodesy and hydrography in the engineering de

partment of Laval University, an expert in hydraulic machinery, late vice-president of the Society of Hygiene of the Province of Quebec. He is the chief engineer and promoter of the Montreal Water and Power Company, who are building a system of water works to cost a little over two million dollars, the object being to supply the towns and villages immediately surrounding Montreal, with water. Fourteen assistants are now working in his office in Montreal. Mr.Vanier has a continental reputation as an expert engineer, and the extensive works constructed by him, aggregate many millions of dollars. He is a Conservative in politics, but his numerous occupations prevent him from taking an active part in political matters. He was married in 1881, to Marie Olivine Pariseau. His family consists. of two children.

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HOMAS TRIVITT, J.P. and clerk AS of the 5th Division Court of Huron county, Exeter, Ont., was born September 2nd, 1813, at Langaller, Somerset County, England. Many centuries ago, his ancestors were among the great men of Europe, and have furnished commanders-in-chief of the army of France, Jurists and Lord Chancellors, of England, and learned historians, but for some hundred of years they have been quiet country gentlemen of Somerset. In 1848, Mr. Trivitt married, and the same year came to Upper Canada, settling upon the site of the present village of Centralia, which in 1868, was founded by him. He was the first clerk of Stephen township, holding that office for many years. When the 5th Division Court of the County was organized at Centralia, in 1852, Mr. Trivitt was appointed its clerk, and has so continued, going to Exeter when the Court was moved there. In 1857, he was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace. Inheriting an ample fortune, which has been added to, he has been in a position in a variety of ways, to gratify his benevolent disposition. The crowning work of his life, however, was the erection and endowment of the magnificent English Church at Exeter, "The Trivitt Memorial Church," costing over $30,000, and in subsequently donating a beautiful chime of bells, costing about $3,000. The church was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Huron, on December 31st, 1888,

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while the chime of ten bells was inaugurated on the first Sunday in Advent, 1890. In addition to the above gifts, he proposes to build a new rectory house, a vestry and school-house, and at his death endow the church in the sum of $6,000. A notable event happened on the day of the consecration of the church; namely the burial of the esteemed wife of Mr. Trivitt, beneath the chancel of the church, in the building of which she had taken such a lively interest. It is to be devoutly desired that Mr. and Mrs. Trivitt's example, may be copied by many Canadians who have means at their disposal.