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EV. ANTOINE GAUVREAU, parish priest, Lévis, Que., was born in Rimouski, September 22nd, 1841. His father was Pierre Gauvreau, a prominent notary public, and his mother was Elizabeth Duberges. Mr. Gauvreau was sent to the College of Ste. Anne, 1853, where he followed a complete course of classical studies, on the completion of which he determined to enter Holy Orders, and with that in view, was admitted to Laval to study theology. In October, 1864, he was ordained priest, and appointed missionary vicar to the parish of Rivière au Renard, Gaspé. He re

tained this charge until 1866, when he was called to the city of Quebec to assume the duties of almoner at the Archbishop's Palace, being at the same time chaplain to the Sisters of Charity, the Christian Brothers, and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. In 1870, he was removed by his ordinary to the curacy of St. Nicholas, Lévis county, where he remained until 1875, when he was transferred to Ste. Anne de Beaupré, the place of pilgrimage of the Roman Catholics of the whole American continent. Every summer, thousands of devout pilgrims wend their way to the shrine of the saint. It is said that the

number of people who visited Ste. Anne during the season of 1887, exceeded 100,000. Two golden crowns of great value were recently presented to the present curate of Ste. Anne by the citizens of Quebec, and His Eminence, Cardinal Taschereau, presided at the ceremonies incidental to the blessing of the princely gift. Rev. Mr. Gauvreau exercised his ministry in Ste. Anne until 1878, when he took charge of the important parish of St. Romuald de Etchemin, county of Lévis, which he retained until 1882, when he removed to Lévis, opposite the city of Quebec, and has had charge of that parish ever since. In 1889, he established in Lévis the Marist Brothers, who give instruction to three hundred little boys, and he is just now building an hospital for the sick of his parish. He has a very firm hold on the affections of his people.

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WEN MURPHY, ExMayor of Quebec city, was born in Stoneham, Province of Quebec, December 9th, 1829. His father was a member of the highly esteemed family of Murphys, of Ballainoulart House, Wexford county, Ireland, and was a man of peculiarly high attainments and cultivated mind. Mr. Murphy was educated under the tuition of the famous Robt. H. Scot, of Edinburgh, Scotland. In his early commercial life he was associated with two of the then largest and most important lumber, ship owning, produce and milling firms of this country. His unflagging perseverance and invincible integrity have obtained for him the honorable, responsible and distinguished positions which he has so frequently held. He was for years a member of the Quebec City Council, and in 1874 was elected to the mayoralty, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected for a further term of two years. Independent of the many municipal offices which Mr. Murphy has filled, he is director of the Quebec Central Railroad, past president of the St. Patrick's Society, the St. Patrick's Literary Institute, the Quebec Turf Club, and the Quebec Board of Trade. He is in religion a Roman Catholic, and has always taken an independent course in politics, but believes that protection is necessary to the welfare of this country. Mr. Murphy was an unsuccessful candidate for Quebec West in 1881, was elected for the same district, in 1886,

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by the largest majority ever given in that constituency, and was again reelected in 1890. He was an important factor in the action which led to the dismissal of the Mercier Government, and the carrying of the province by the DeBoucherville administration. However, he declined to be a candidate for his old constituency, and voluntarily withdrew from active political life. Mr. Murphy was married, in 1857, to Miss Loughry, who died in June, 1888, after which he sold his beautiful residence, and has since lived in social retirement. Mr. Murphy has no family.

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AMES KING, M.P.P., Quebec, Que., was born in St. Antoine de Tilly, Lotbinière county, P.Q., February 18th, 1848. He is the youngest son of the late Charles King, of Sylvester, Megantic. Mr. King received his early education in Lennoxville, and took the degree of B.A. in 1867, and that of M.A. in 1873, at the University of Bishop's College. In early life, Mr. King turned his attention to commercial pursuits, notably that of lumbering, and is now (1892) the Quebec member of the well and favorably known lumber and timber exporting firm of King Bros. and King

Bros. & Co., who are among the largest operators in the province, having their works scattered all over the Eastern Townships, and in this way have become powerful contributors to Lower Canadian development. The King Bros. are largely interested in the important Asbestos industry of the Province of Quebec, and are proprietors of extensive areas of Asbestos bearing lands in the Eastern Townships, and notably of the

Hampden" and "Thetford Royal" mines in Megantic county. Mr. King is the vice-president of the Mining Association of the Province of Quebec, director of Union Bank of Canada, and largely interested in rural real estate, being the seigneur of the seigniories of St. Jean Deschaillons and Lake Matapedia. His large and honorable commercial transactions throughout the province, have made him so favorably known, that in 1892, he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, as representative of the county of Megantic, by the Conservative party, and will doubtless prove an able and valuable member of parliament. Mr. King is in religion a member of the Church of England, and has been a lay delegate to the synod of the Diocese of Quebec. He is unmarried, and has travelled over the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe. As he is yet (1892) in the full prime of his manhood, there is strong probability that he will become one of the most important and influential factors in his native province.

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ON. JOHN DOBSON, merchant, Lindsay, Ont., was born in the county of Fermannagh, Ireland, September 8th, 1824, and is a son of John and Mary Dobson. He was educated in the parochial schools in Ireland. In 1852, he emigrated to the United States, and settled in Rochester, N.Y. He came to Canada September 10th, 1860, the same day on which the Prince of Wales was a guest at Toronto, and lived in Toronto two years. Mr. Dobson afterwards settled in Lindsay, where he still resides (1892), and conducts a very large trade. He has rendered much valuable

service in public affairs, and has been honored with various important positions. In 1874, he was elected mayor of Lindsay, and filled the office with credit to himself and with profit to the town. He has been mayor several times since 1874, and is now (1892), president of the Lindsay Board of Trade, the Mechanics Institute and the Conservative Association. The latter office he has held for twenty years. He was appointed to the Senate, February 23rd, 1892. In religion Mr. Dobson is an Episcopalian. In politics, a Conservative. He was married in 1846, to Miss Catharine Graham.

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IMON C. GRONDIN, M.D., Dr. Doleris, at Paris, who conducted a L.M., Surgeon Gynicologiste, similar institution. In 1889, Dr. GronQuebec, Que., was Que., was born January din established himself in Quebec, 17th, 1862. He is the son of E. and and was made professor at Laval the C. (Morin) Grondin. Dr. Grondin same year (gives clinics for diseases took his classical course at the Semi- of women). He contributed largely nary of Quebec, was made Doctor in towards establishing the practice of Medicine at Laval University in 1885, modern surgery in modern surgery in Quebec, and esafter six months in Dublin, Ireland. tablished the first private hospital in He received his diploma of Accoucheur, that city in 1891. Owing to his great in February, 1886. His next two years energy and spirit he already possesses were spent in Paris, where he was for one of the most renowned practices in one year chief clinical at the Clinical the ancient capital. In religion he is Institution of Dr. Chéron, for diseases a Roman Catholic. Dr. Grondin was of women. For six months he occupi- married December 15th, 1888, to Marie ed the place of assistant clinical with Z. Miette, born in the French Ardennes.

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