MAJOR LYMAN
Major Henry Herbert Lyman, one of the passengers, was well known throughout Canada as head of the old established wholesale firm of Lyman, Sons & Co., and was also widely known for his former association with military affairs.
He was long connected with the Royal Scots, now the Royal Highlanders. He served from ensign up to senior major. He retired in 1891, but was afterwards appointed to the reserve of officers. In religion he was a Congregationalist, a member of Emmanuel Congregational Church.
An ardent imperialist, Major Lyman supported every movement tending to a greater unity of the Empire. He held that to attain full citizenship in the Empire, Canada must bear her just share of imperial burdens. He was a strong advocate of imperial preferential trade. Politically, he was independent.
Mr. Lyman was one of the organizers of the Imperial Federation League in Canada and formed one of the deputation that waited upon Lord Salisbury and Mr. Stanhope in 1886 to ask that an Imperial Conference be summoned, which Conference was held in the following year. He was treasurer of the League in Canada and was a member of the executive committee of the British Empire League in Canada.
He was also vice-president of the Graduates’ Society of McGill University; vice-president of the Natural History Society; President of the Entomological Society of Ontario and Montreal; a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; and a Life Governor of the Montreal General Hospital.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
George Bogue Smart, Superintendent of Child Immigration, was a well-known government official, who was en route to England to accompany a party of British children to Canada. Mr. Smart was fifty years old and a native of Brockville, Ontario. He had been fifteen years in the government service, and his business took him frequently to the old country. He was a writer of articles and author of works dealing with immigration problems in Canada. He was well known as a lecturer. Recently he was elected a member of the Authors’ Club in London.
R. A. Cunningham, of Winnipeg, was on his way to England as representative of the Manitoba Government in the immigration department. He was formerly a lecturer at the Agricultural College.