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HARLES MCDOWELL, B. A., principal of the High School, Renfrew, Ontario, was born September 17th, 1850, in the township of West Gwillimbury, Simcoe county, Ont. His parents were Wildridge and Catherine (Sturgeon) McDowell, both natives of Ireland. Mr. McDowell received his early education in the public schools of Simcoe county, and the Grammar School of Bradford, Ontario. He then taught school for four years, and entered Queen's University, Kingston, in the Fall of 1873, and graduated in the Spring of 1877. In 1878, he was assistant head master in the Orange

ville High School, and in January, 1879, he took charge of the Renfrew High School, which position he has held ever since, with credit to the institution. Many of his pupils are now holding important positions in the professions and business institutions throughout the country. In religion, Mr. McDowell is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a C.D.H.C.D. of the I.O.F. In politics, he is an Independent. He was married, August 25th, 1880, to Miss Ida, daughter of John Smith, of Renfrew. Renfrew. His family consists of three children living, and one daughter deceased.

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ORMISDAS PORTE, of the firm of Laporte, Martin & Co., wholesale grocers, 2548 Notre Dame St., Montreal, Que., was born November 7th, 1850, at Lachine, Que., and his parents removed to Sault-aux-Récollets the following year. He is the son of Jean-Baptiste Laporte and Marie Berthiaume dit Jubinville. The only education he received was at the village school, so he is a self-made made. In 1866, he came to Montreal to work in a nail factory, and at nights attended Moffatt's School. After four years of hard work, he was strongly inclined to com mercial business, and in the Spring of 1870, he left wages of twelve dollars a week, to take a position as clerk in a retail grocery with a salary of ten dollars a month. Having a natural disposition for his new calling, he made rapid progress, and during the Fall

of the same year, he started a grocery on his own account. In 1881, he sold out his retail business and started a wholesale grocery and provision establishment, which increased so rapidly, that in 1888, he called in as partners J. B. A. Martin and J. O. Boucher, and the firm has since erected the building they now occupy. In religion, Mr. Laporte is a Roman Catholic. He has been for years treasurer, president and warden of the congregation and the different charitable institutions of the parish of St. Joseph. He is past president of the Union St. Vincent, the president of the "Alliance Nationale,"

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since its organization, and past treasurer and president of the " Association St. Jean-Baptiste." He is a member of the Board of Trade and of the Wholesale Grocers' Association, vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, and has been a director of the Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and since 1885, Justice of the Peace. He is also director of the National Mutual Building Association, and councillor of Dorionville, where he has his summer residence. He is a staunch Conservative. He was married, January 14th, 1874, to Mirza Onesime, daughter of Pierre Gervais. His family consists of two children living.

EWIS HENRY DICKSON, barrister at law, solicitor, and notary public, Exeter, Ont., was born August 16th, 1860, in the village of Pakenham, Lanark county, Ont. His parents are James B. Dickson and Annie E. McAdam. His grandfather came to Canada from Antrim, Ireland, in 1826. His father was born in the village of Pakenham. The latter was successfully engaged in the business of lumbering for many years, and is now retired and living in Pembroke. His mother is the third daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. McAdam, who came to Canada from the county of Mayo, Ireland, in the year 1826, and who was well-known throughout the counties of Carleton, Renfrew and Lanark. Mr. Dickson was educated at Pembroke High School, and Kingston Collegiate Institute. He studied law with Thomas Deacon, Q.C., of Pembroke, and for a short time, with Hector Cameron, Q. C., Toronto. He began the practice of law in 1883, at Seaforth, removing to Exeter in 1884, and has since continued there. He enjoys the confidence of all classes of the community, not only in his undoubted ability as a professional man, but in his integrity as a man and a citizen. In religion, Mr. Dickson is an adherent of the Presbyterian Church. He is the W.M. in Orange Lodge, No. 924, also a member of the I.O.F., I.O.O.F., and of the Select Knights of Canada. He is also solicitor for the municipality of the village of Exeter, and captain of No. 6

Company of the 33rd Battalion of volunteers. In politics, he is a Conservative, and president of the Y. M. L. C. A. of Exeter, and takes an active part in the interest of that party, giving to it much of his time, but he does his own thinking on public questions, and is by no means a machine politician. On July 21st, 1868, he was married to Janet McDonell, fourth daughter of John McDonell, of Exeter, and grand daughter of the late lieutenant-colonel McDonell, of Metcalf. They have one daughter, Dolly Kathleen Dickson, born June 23rd, 1887.

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EV. W. A. READ, Rector, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Pembroke, Ont., was born in Merrickville, February 10th, 1853. He is descended from U. E. Loyalist stock, although his ancestors have lived in the vicinity of Merrickville for more than one hundred years. His parents were William Case and Margaret (Mac kenzie) Read. After passing through the public schools, Mr. Read attended the Kemptville High School, and subsequently Trinity College School, Port Hope, for three years; St. Augustine College, Canterbury, Eng., three years, graduating June 29th, 1878. The day The day

following, he was made deacon by the Lord Bishop of Ontario, at Canterbury. After this, he returned to Canada, and was made curate at Kemptville, remaining two years. On the division of the parish in 1880, he became incumbent at Oxford Mills, having been priested June 29th, where he remained ten years, much to the pleasure and profit of his parishioners. He took charge at Pembroke, February 2nd, 1890. He is a member of, and chaplain to the I.O.O.F., and member of the A.O.U.W. He was married, November 21st, 1882, to Catherine Louisa, daughter of W. R. Wright, of the Civil Service, Ottawa.

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