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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 year. He was 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 among 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 Carleton Street since they located in Toronto in 1867.

OHN U. GREGORY, agent of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, Quebec, Que., was born in Troy, New York State, U.S.A., in 1833. He is the third son of the late Dr. S. Gregory, whose ancestor was a retired British army officer. His mother was a French Canadian lady of a distinguished family. Mr. Gregory received his preliminary education in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and when very young returned with his parents to Montreal where where he continued his studies. He has been an officer of the Government since 1863. Upon the organization of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, after confederation, he was appointed head of the agency of Quebec, the most important branch of that department, and still occupies the position (1892), with a large increase in the duties, which has resulted from the success attending his nearly thirty years of service. He is a justice of the peace for the Province of Quebec, superintendent of Harbor Police, shipping master, and has been appointed by Government, on several occasions, commissioner to enquire into matters connected with wrecks and casualties at sea. Mr. Gregory declined to come forward as the independent candidate. for parliamentary honors. offered him by both sides in politics twice. He is well known in literary circles as an able contributor on various matters of public interSeveral of his articles were translated into French and published in book form.

He is also a most acceptable lecturer, and a great treat and always a crowded house can be counted on when he is announced to lecture for the Literary and Historical Society. He has travelled extensively, and being a keen observer of passing events, is not only a ready speaker, but a most enjoyable conversationist. He is in religion a Roman Catholic. He has been married twice; first to Miss Marie Louise, youngest daughter of the late Martial Leprohon, and second to Miss Marie Louise Letitia, youngest daughter of the late John McCallum, Montreal, Que.

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ILLIAM PATRICK INNES, Simcoe, Norfolk Co., Ontario, Canada, was born at Speyside, Inverdruie, Inverness Shire, Scotland, Nov. 6th, 1832. He is a son of Robert Innes, and a grandson of Alexander Innes, both of whom were accounted leading mechanical engineers in the north of Scotland. The subject of this sketch, after receiving the best education practicable in the part of the country in which he was born, went to Glasgow and accepted a position in the office of J. & P. Stewart, iron merchants and manufacturers, remaining with them for one year, when he removed to Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, and engaged with Mr. David Pursell as cashier, and afterwards became manager of the Elmfield Iron Works, which position he held for a number of years. Eventually, having resolved to come to Canada, he gave up his position in Dalkeith and left Scotland in August, 1857, and shortly afterwards landed in Quebec. For more than twenty-five years, prior to the establishment of his present business, he was engaged in various parts of the province of Ontario, in conducting important and successful business enterprises. In 1881, Mr. Innes, along with three other residents of Simcoe, started the business now known as the Simcoe Canning Co., which is one of the largest of its kind at present in the Dominion, and has branches at Hamilton and Cedar Springs. Goods with the Simcoe Canning Co.'s labels are well and favorably

known all throughout the Dominion, and shipments are occasionally made to Great Britain and South America. Mr. Innes is now sole proprietor of the business, and employs a large number of operatives. He purchases locally and imports large quantities of fruits, etc. He has been a member of the Simcoe school board for a number of years, and takes an active interest in all enterprises for the good of the town. In politics he is a Conservative, and in religion a Presbyterian. He was married in 1868 to Marion, daughter of the late Reverend M. W. Livingstone, Simcoe.

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EV. FRANÇOIS NARCISSE FORTIER, president of Lévis College, actually professor of Dogmatic and Moral Theology in the same institution, was born July 31st, 1835, at Ste. Claire, county of Dorchester, P.Q. His father was Simon Fortier, farmer, and his mother, Louise Fournier. After a few After a few years of private tuition at the hands of the late Right Reverend Jean Langevin, Bishop of Rimouski, then Parish Priest of Ste. Claire, he completed his full course of studies, classical and philosophical, in three years at the Seminary of Quebec, where he likewise received his theologi

cal training. He was ordained priest February 23rd, 1862. He performed the duties of his sacred ministry, first, during four years, as assistant priest at St. Joseph de Lévis, and afterwards, during seventeen years, as parish priest in the parish of St. François, on the Island of Orleans, two of the oldest Canadian parishes. He entered Lévis College in September 1882, as president, an office that he has held ever since, besides performing duty as director of the students and successively teaching intellectual and moral philosophy, natural philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, rhetoric and history. The actual president

of Lévis College is a born pedagogue. The store of learning amassed by him during the many long hours daily saved from his laborious parochial ministration, and his deep experience of men and events, have providentially fitted him for his present office as a trainer and instructor of youth. Rising at all seasons at halfpast three, and retiring at half-past nine, his mathematically regulated and well filled day, leaves him but little time for "idle words." A rigid observer of discipline for himself, he enforces it in others with a firm, though fatherly hand, while his love of work always apportions to him the lion's share in the distribution of educational labor. Faithful to principles of truth and order that can never change, he is nevertheless an ardent lover and promoter of progress. He is respected and beloved by both teachers and students.

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AMES KENDREY, managingdirector of the Auburn Woollen Company, Peterborough, Ont., was born in Oshawa, Ontario, March 29th, 1845. After finishing his education at the public schools, Mr. Kendrey served his apprenticeship with his father in the Toronto Woollen Mills at Streetsville, Ont., remaining there until seventeen years of age, when he left Streetsville and spent some time in various parts of Ontario and the United States, finally returning to Peterborough in 1866. He subsequently He subsequently held positions in several of the leading woollen mills in this country, and in

July 1879 became manager of the Auburn Woollen Mills, Peterborough, and one year later obtained an interest in the business. Under his able management the business has steadily increased and is now known as one of the best equipped woollen mills in Canada. Mr. Kendrey has had a full share of municipal honors and has ably represented his fellow-citizens in the offices to which they elected him. He was for many years a member of the town council and was elected mayor in 1892. In religion. he is a Methodist; in politics a Conservative. ative. He also belongs to the A. F. & A.M., C.O.F., and S.O.E., Societies.