Hamilton, Frank Kent, LL.B., General Manager of the McKittrick Properties, Limited, Hamilton, Ontario, was born in Stratford, Ont., March 19, 1887, and received his education in the local public and high schools and University of Manitoba, from which he graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1910, and in the following year he graduated as a barrister. He married October 6, 1915, Fannie Irene Moodie, daughter of Honorary Lieut.-Col. J. R. Moodie, an extensive manufacturer, of Hamilton, Ont., and has a daughter, Fannie Margaret, born February 14, 1917, and a son, Kenneth Moodie, born June 29, 1918. He is a member of the Hamilton Golf Club, the Hamilton Club, the Glendale Golf Club, and his principal recreations are golf and tennis. He is a Presbyterian, and a Unionist-Liberal. With the exception of one year, his boyhood days were spent in Stratford, Ontario. This year was spent in Syracuse, New York, where his father went in November, 1897, to go into the wholesale shoe business. He died there in June, 1898, and his widow and four daughters and son returned to live in Stratford. His widow died in November, 1913. After matriculating in 1904, Mr. Hamilton spent two years in the men’s clothing business at Stratford, and left in May of 1906 for Western Canada, where he felt the prospects were better for working his way through for law. He articled to Norman P. Buckingham, then practising at Boissevain, Manitoba. In July, 1908, he went to Winnipeg, where he studied for a short time under Lieut.-Col. A. W. Morley, and from 1909 till 1911 he studied under the firm of Aikins, Robson, Fullerton & Coyne, the senior member of the firm being Sir James Aikins, the present Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba. Mr. Robson later became Judge of the King’s Bench of Manitoba, and is now general counsel for the Union Bank of Canada. Mr. Fullerton is now Judge of the Court of Appeal, while J. B. Coyne is one of Manitoba’s most prominent counsel. Graduating in 1911, the partnership of Coyne & Hamilton was formed in January, 1912, which firm later became Coyne, Hamilton & Martin. Successful law practice was carried on under this name until May, 1918, when Mr. Hamilton came East to accept the General Managership of the McKittrick Properties, Limited, owners of some 700 acres of land within the limits of the city of Hamilton, which is now in the course of development as a residential area. In the winter of 1904 and 1905 he was one of the members of the Stratford Junior Hockey team, which won the Junior Championship of the Province of Ontario. In 1910 he was a member of the Varsity Hockey team of Winnipeg, holders of the Championship of Manitoba. The team challenged for the Allen Cup, emblematic of the Amateur Championship of the World, then held by St. Michaels’ of Toronto, but spring came before dates could be arranged for a play-off. He also belonged to the Law Hockey team, winners of the Inter-Collegiate Championship of the University of Manitoba, and though he has given up active athletics, still bears the stamp of an athlete. He is tall, fair, active, affable and enterprising in a marked degree. The family reside at 407 Queen Street South, Hamilton, Ontario.
Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia since 1914, is a native of the city of Toronto, but a British Columbian since early childhood. He was born on May 16, 1856, the son of the late Francis J. Barnard, who settled in that province during the Fraser River gold rush of 1859, and brought his family to permanently reside there in 1860. The elder Barnard subsequently became one of the strongest advocates of Confederation with the Dominion of Canada, and later, from 1879 to 1887, sat in the House of Commons as Conservative member for the old constituency of Yale-Kootenay. The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this sketch was Miss Ellen Stillman. He was educated at Hellmuth College, London, Ont. On returning to B.C., he, in 1879, became associated with the British Columbia Express Company of Victoria, B.C., and was promoted to the post of general manager in 1881, and president in 1882. For a considerable period he was prominent in connection with transportation interests. He was President of the Consolidated Railway Company of Vancouver, 1894-96, and Managing Director of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Limited, of London, Eng., 1898-1906. In 1906 he retired from active business. Despite his large commercial interests, he found time to devote to politics, and in 1886 and 1887 served as member of the Victoria City Council. In 1888, he was elected to the House of Commons for the Cariboo district as a Conservative, and continued to sit until 1896. His brother, Hon. George Henry Barnard, was also at one time a member of the House of Commons, and is now a Senator. In 1914, Sir Frank was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, a post he still holds at the time of writing, and was later created a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. During his term of office Sir Frank has been a leader in the patriotic activities in connection with the war, and Lady Barnard has proven a most valuable aid to him in the important social duties of his office. They were married on November 7, 1883, and prior thereto Lady Barnard was Miss Martha Loewen, daughter of the late Joseph Loewen, brewer, of Victoria. Sir Frank is a member of the following clubs: Union, Victoria; Vancouver, Vancouver; Royal Vancouver Yacht; Victoria Golf; Victoria Tennis; Royal Automobile, London, Eng.; and the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto. He has no children, and his address is Government House, Victoria, B.C.
Hodgetts, Col. Charles Alfred, C.M.G., M.D., sanitary specialist, is the third son of the late George Hodgetts, of Toronto, and a grandson of the late Lt.-Col. Thomas Hodgetts, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment, and was born in Toronto, August 23, 1859. In 1896, Dr. Hodgetts married Elizabeth B. Salter, daughter of W. T. Salter, of St. John’s, Newfoundland. She died in March, 1909. He has two sons and three daughters. He was educated at the Provincial Model School, Toronto, and was awarded the Dufferin Medal at the Ontario College of Pharmacy, graduating with honours in 1875, at the Victoria University, graduating in 1886 as an M.D., C.M., and subsequently received the membership of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Hodgetts was house surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital 1886-7, and resident assistant surgeon at the Stafford Infirmary, England, 1888, and received his L.R.C.P., London, 1889. He received the first D.P.H. of Queen’s University in 1912. From 1891 to 1904 he was Medical Inspector of the Provincial Board of Health and Secretary and Deputy Registrar General of the Province of Ontario from 1904 to 1910. In 1910, he was offered the M.O.H. of the city of Toronto, but declined the appointment; subsequently he was appointed Medical Adviser of the Public Health Committee of the Commission of Conservation, with headquarters at Ottawa. Dr. Hodgetts has held the Honorary Treasurership of the St. John Ambulance Association, and is at present Honorary Secretary; also the Honorary Secretaryship of the Canadian Branch of the Red Cross Society from the time of its organization, and was most active during the war in South Africa, 1899-1900, in carrying out the work in Canada. He resigned from the office in 1910, and was elected the first Honorary Life Member. Sup. Presdt. Sons of England Ben. Soc., Canada, 1900-1; a Fellow Royal Sanitary Institute, 1905; an examiner, Royal Sanitary Institute, 1906; Fellow Royal Institute of Public Health; Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health of Great Britain; Hon. Vice-President Association Public Vaccinators, Great Britain; Member, International Commission on Bovine Tuberculosis, 1909; Member, Ottawa Commission to investigate the best source of water supply for Ottawa, and to suggest a plan of sewage disposal for that city, 1911; Life Member of the British Red Cross Society. He has served as 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Vice-President, American Public Health Association; Hon. Asst., 1903, Esquire, 1910, and Knight of Grace, 1912, Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Past President, Conference Executive; Officer, State and Prof. Boards of Health, Washington; President, Canadian Public Health Association of Canada, 1911-12; gazetted Lieut. A.M.C., present rank, Lt.-Col.; a founder and charter member of the Canadian Red Cross Society, St. John Ambulance Association, and the Canadian Public Health Association; author of numerous contributions to the press and of several pamphlets on public health. Represented Canada at International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, 1909; International Congress on Maternity and Child Welfare, Berlin, 1911; Conference on Pollution of International Waterways, Cleveland, 1912; and British and Overseas Dominion Conference on Child Welfare, London, England, 1913. The only medical member of the Trustees holding the charter of the Toronto School of Medicine for the Ontario Government. He is credited with being one of the foremost public health authorities in Canada and, as the “Montreal Gazette” has wisely pronounced, is “regarded everywhere as an authority on all subjects dealing with public health.” He was prominent with the Conservation Commission in urging the creation of a Dominion Department of Health, and carried out a campaign for the better housing of the people and for town planning. Dr. Hodgetts is thoroughly British, and believes that the maintenance of British connection is essential for the continuance of Canada’s progress. On mobilization, at Valcartier in August, 1914, O.C. in charge of Inoculation Column. Nearly 30,000 troops were inoculated, being the largest number ever inoculated on mobilization. In October, 1914, Dr. Hodgetts was appointed Hon. Canadian Red Cross Commissioner overseas, with the rank of Colonel, and left for the front. From London he organized and directed the activities of the Society overseas in England, France and the countries of the Entente. He was elected a member of the Joint War Committee of the British Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem for the full period of his residence overseas. In September, 1917, among the birthday honours conferred by King George at Buckingham Palace, the C.M.G. was given to Dr. Hodgetts in appreciation of his work, he having been mentioned in despatches for distinguished service. In April, 1918, he resigned the Commissionership of the C.R.C.S., and the Imperial authorities appointed him to the post of deputy Commissioner of Medical Service under the Imperial Ministry of National Services—one of the highest positions in the medical services of the Empire, and he subsequently served in Ireland as Assistant Commissioner. Dr. Hodgetts returned to Canada the following December, and was enthusiastically received by the members of the Great War Veterans’ Association, to whom he had rendered such attentive and efficient service overseas, that it had received the personal praise of the Commanders-in-Chief of the British and French armies. He received a personal letter of thanks from Queen Marie of Rumania, and the badge of membership of the Serbian Red Cross for his services to those allies. Dr. Hodgetts is a Protestant in religion, and his residence is 238 Argyle Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Member of the Rideau and University Clubs.
D. E. HENRY
Ottawa