OSEPH OCTAVE PELLAND, advocate, Montreal, Que., was born at Berthier, Que., September 26th, 1860. He was educated at Jacques-Cartier Normal School, Montreal, studied law under the late Hon. J. A. Mousseau, was admitted to the Bar in January, 1884, and soon secured a good connection. He subsequently entered partnership with A. Girard, M.P.P., under the firm name of Pelland and Girard, and the firm thus formed, have a large clientage and control a magnificent business. Mr. Pelland was formerly a Conservative, and was vicepresident, and later on, secretary of the

Cartier Club. In 1885, he left the Conservative ranks to join the National, now the Liberal party, and was appointed solicitor to the Revenue Department of the district of Montreal, in which capacity he served until the fall of the Mercier administration. For a man of his age, to gain such distinction is creditable, and judging by his past record, he will become a prominent public figure in the future of his country. He is in religion a Roman Catholic, and was for years vice-president of the Society of St. Jean-Baptiste. Mr. Pelland was married in 1886, to Miss Marie Louise, daughter of Benoit Bastien.

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merits, Messrs. Speir & Son, gave him a share in the business. He distinguished himself in Chicago, by designing Mr. Potter Palmer's grand hotel on State Street. In 1871, he was a victim of the great Chicago fire, losing everything, but full of courage, he opened another office under the name of Roy, Deforest and Fisher. Later on, under his own name, he entered the competition for the plan of the City Hall and Court House of Chicago, which cost over four million dollars, and notwithstanding the fiftytwo competitors, he succeeded in entering the choice of the six best plans. He then went to New York, and from thence to Boston, where he entered a competition for the building of the State's Prison at Concord, Mass., which was to cost three mil

lion dollars. Again his plans were admired, and he failed only because of not being supported by influen

Que., of the firm of Roy & Gauthier, was born at Quebec, in the year 1837. His father, Joseph Roy, dit Belleau, after the great fire in Quebec, in 1845, came with his family to Montreal, and there took the name of Joseph Roy only. His son, Victor Roy, received his education at the College of the Christian Brothers. While a young man, he entered the office of Mr. John Ostel, architect, later on, Ostel & Footner. At the age of twenty, he won the prize offered for the best design, for the magnificent residence of Sir Hugh Allan, of Montreal. In recognition of his

Montreal, and since then he has contributed to the embellishment of the city and its surroundings, in buildings of all kinds, among others, the Church and Convent of Ste. Cunégonde, the Church of St. Bridget, the Seminary of Ste. Thérèse, the College of Marieville, and others, He has been twice elected vice-president of the Architects Association, and in 1892, was elected president of the Association. He was married, November 18th, 1879, to Miss Helen Mary Rafter, daughter of the late John Rafter, merchant, of Montreal, Que.

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EV. JNO. VICARS, B.A., T.C.D., retired clergyman of the Church of England, Cannington, Ont., was born in Dublin, Ireland, April 9th, 1827. He is the son of John and Eliza Vicars; the former was a grammar school teacher in the West of Ireland. Mr. Vicars began his education at the Grammar school, in Ennis county, Clare, and subsequently attended Trinity University in Dublin, from which he graduated in 1853. After his ordination his first charge was Acholl Colony, in the West of Ireland, but he was shortly after removed to take charge of the Dublin mission to the Roman Catholics. From thence he was brought out to Canada by the Right Rev. Dr. Cronin, first Bishop of Huron, Ont., and settled in London township, where he remained a short time, prior to his appointment to the pastorate of Lindsay, and parts adjacent, where he remained for about twelve years. Subsequently, he did missionary work in various parts of Ontario, until he was superannuated in 1889. During his missionary work, both in the Old land and in this country, he underwent many dangerous as well as humorous adventures, and has had the fullest opportunity of seeing all sides of the life of a pioneer minister, while engaged in the most radical reforms, and is known as one of the ablest men in his denomination. His life has been full of toil, zeal and loving service for those among whom he has labored, and his last days

are gladdened by the knowledge that he yet lives in the affection of those to whom he has ministered. Mr. Vicars is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and Orange societies, and the present chaplain of the former order at Cannington, Ont. Ont. In politics he is a strong Conservative, and has the courage of his convictions. He has been married twice; first, to Miss Caroline Biggam, of Dublin, Ireland, in 1853; and second, to Miss Anna Bella Mitchell, of Millbrook, Ont. His eldest son, J. R. Vicars, Dominion Land Surveyor, has been in the employ of the Dominion Government for the past ten years.

OUIS LABERGE, appointed Medical Health Officer of Montreal in 1885, was born in that city in 1851. He studied at the colleges of Terrebonne, Montreal, Ste. Thérèse and St. Mary's. He received his diploma in the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, was licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1874. In 1889, he was delegated to France by the council to represent the city at the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Paris. He has made a speciality of the cure of stammering and other impediments of the voice. He is a member of the

French Society of Hygiene of Paris, the American Public Health Association, the Medico-Chirurgical Society, and of the Microscopical Society of Montreal, is also one of the founders of the Canadian Association for the study and dissimination of Social Science. Dr. Laberge is a most efficient and pains taking health officer, and is not only admirably qualified for the duties of his responsible position, but is always on the alert to detect anything which may militate against the public health, and is anxious to have the best sanitary arrangements for the city adopted."