Marchand, Pierre (Ottawa), Controller of Expenditure, Department of Interior, when appointed to a position by Sir Clifford Sifton, who was then Minister of the Interior, took office as an accountant whose talents and ability as such had been well tested and approved on several previous occasions. As accountant in the offices of the Lake Temiscamingue Colonization Railway at Mattawa, Ontario; in his occupancy of a similar position with Leblanc & Lemay, wholesale and retail clothiers and gent’s furnishers, and afterwards with D. V. Ranger, wholesale merchant at Ottawa, he was always found quick and reliable in his work, and, besides gaining and retaining the full confidence of his employers, he firmly established himself as an accountant of enviable reputation. It was in 1899, owing to the increased and rapidly increasing work that the Department of Interior was called upon to handle, attributable to Sir Clifford Sifton’s able and progressive administration, that Mr. Marchand’s services were secured, and the expenditure branch of that Department required carefulness, watchfulness and efficiency, and had to be placed in charge of one whose past record had stamped on it faithfulness and reliability. Since Mr. Marchand’s advent into that part of the Civil Service, the expenditure of the Department of Interior has had a painstaking, reliable and efficient public official, and one whose ever-attentive industry and care has elevated it to a high standard of excellent management. Prior to entering the Civil Service, Mr. Marchand was an active political worker in the Liberal party’s interests in Ottawa. At one time, and for several years, he was Secretary for the Club National, a French-Canadian Liberal organization, and was recognized as a strong and effective political worker. The late Hon. F. G. Marchand, who became Premier of Quebec, was one of Mr. Marchand’s many prominent relatives. Mr. Marchand was born at Ottawa, December 25, 1866, and is the son of Amable Marchand and Adelina Belair. His father was a prominent accountant, who saw that his son received a good commercial and classical education in Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. Mr. Marchand was twice married. On October 6, 1891, he married at Ottawa, Josephine, daughter of Mrs. O. Lafleur, a widow. She died in May, 1916. On January 10th, 1917, he married in Ottawa, Bertha, daughter of P. Girard, whose residence is at Carillon, Quebec. By this second marriage, his home is blessed with a son and a daughter, Rosaire and Carmen. Mr. Marchand is a member of the Institut Canadien-Français and Monument National. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, and he resides at 81 Stewart Street.
Northrup, William Barton, K.C., M.A. (Ottawa, Ont.), Clerk of the House of Commons, is an eminent lawyer, and was for many years head of the legal firm of Northrup and Roberts, of Belleville, Ontario. For many years he sat in the House as the representative for East Hastings, Ontario, and was noted for his able debates and the eloquent and persistent manner in which he advocated the establishment of divorce tribunals where the poor as well as the rich would be accorded fair play and justice, and the abolition of the costly Senate procedure, which was antiquated, unjust and farcical and unreliable. Mr. Northrup was first elected to Parliament at a by-election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. S. B. Burdell, who was returned to Parliament at the general election in 1891. He was unsuccessful in his candidature in the general election in 1896, but at the general elections of 1900-4-8 and 1911 he was successful. He did not run in the war election in 1917. In 1902 he accompanied the Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden on the North-West tour. Succeeding Dr. T. B. Flint, M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., he was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons in 1918. Like the late Dr. Flint, Mr. W. B. Northrup has had a long experience as a member of the House of Commons, and is an expert in parliamentary practice. His natural geniality and uniform courtesy made him friends on both sides of the House. With distinguished ability, grace and dignity he fills the position of Clerk of the House of Commons. William Barton Northrup is the son of the late A. G. N. Northrup, Deputy-Clerk of the Crown and Pleas, County Hastings, Ontario. He was born in Belleville, Ontario, October 19, 1856, and was educated at the Belleville Grammar School, Upper Canada College, and Toronto University (B.A. with honors 1877, M.A. 1878). June 1, 1879, he married Minnie, eldest daughter of the late J. E. Procter, Brighton, Ontario. She died June, 1905. In June, 1907, he married Mary Schryver, daughter of the late J. C. Fitch, Toronto, and relict of F. C. Clemow. He was created K.C. in 1902, bencher Law Society, 1906, and was re-elected. In the House of Commons in 1892 he moved the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne, and in 1906 seconded the address inviting King Edward and Queen Alexandra to visit Canada. In his youth he was a noted cricketer.
Braden, Norman Short (Hamilton, Ont.), is an electrical engineer by profession and one of the industrial chieftains of that city. He was born at Indianapolis, U.S.A., on June 15, 1869, the son of James Braden, a physician, and Lydia E. Braden. The Braden family are of Scottish descent, and his ancestors emigrated from the North of Ireland to the United States in the eighteenth century. Mr. Braden was educated at the public schools of Indiana and at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. After leaving college in 1892 he entered the employ of the Jenney Electric Motor Company of Indianapolis, and seven years later joined the staff of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh. Upon the formation of the Canadian Westinghouse Company, Limited, of Hamilton, Ont., in 1903, he moved to the latter city, and was appointed manager of the sales department, in charge of the commercial electrical development and activities of his Company for the entire Dominion. Under his direction the growth of the Canadian Westinghouse Company’s business has expanded with great rapidity, requiring an increase of capital from $1,500,000 in 1903 to $10,000,000 in 1918. It gives employment to upwards of three thousand hands, and is the largest manufacturer of electrical apparatus in Canada. In 1919, Mr. Braden was elected third vice-president of the company with executive charge of its commercial organization. The subject of this sketch is also identified with another of Hamilton’s leading industries, the B. Greening Wire Co., Ltd. On November 29, 1906, he married Mabel, daughter of Samuel Owen and Jennie H. Greening. The Greening family have been prominent manufacturers of wire products in England since the year Columbus discovered America, 1492, and have been established in Hamilton since 1858. Of that company Mr. Braden, who entered the family by marriage, is now a Director. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Jovian Order, and belongs to the Hamilton Club, the Rotary Club of his city; the Golf and Country Club; the Engineers’ Clubs of Toronto and Montreal; the Electric Club of Toronto, and the Transportation Club of New York City. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and his recreations are hunting, golf, motoring, and motor boating. Mr. and Mrs. Braden have three children, Eleanore Greening Braden, William Greening Braden, and Margaret Owen Braden.
Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William (Ottawa, Ont.), Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons and a Commissioner of Parliament, is the son of the late Captain Alexander Bowie, who, during his lifetime, was one of the most popular men residing in the capital of the Dominion of Canada, and Esther Shepherd, and was born at Ottawa, November 10, 1862, and educated in the public and private schools. In 1892, Lieut.-Colonel Bowie married Helen Louise Gouin, daughter of James A. Gouin, who for thirty-three years was postmaster for the City of Ottawa. There are five children, Guy Gouin, Henry William Shepherd, Louis Alexander, Marion Faith, and Adelaide Esther—three boys and two girls. An enthusiast in military matters, at the age of nineteen, in 1881, Lieut.-Col. Bowie became a member of the Canadian Militia, and qualified at the Royal Military College and the Royal School of Artillery, and for several years was a member of the Governor-General’s Foot Guards. In 1882 Colonel Bowie entered the service of the Ottawa River Navigation Company, in which his father was Ottawa Manager, and qualified as Master, Marine Department, Ottawa, in 1884. From 1891 to 1896, and again from 1911 to 1915, Colonel Bowie was Secretary to the Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons, and from 1891 to 1918 (for 28 years) served as Deputy-Sergeant-at-Arms in that honourable Assembly. On the death of Lieut.-Col. H. R. Smith, I.S.O., C.M.G., J.P., A.D.C., Colonel Bowie was recalled from overseas, and, March, 1918, was appointed as Sergeant-at-Arms. Shortly after the Great War was declared Colonel Bowie made every effort to follow those who had already gone overseas, or to join those who were preparing to go, but, owing to official and other duties over which he had to preside he was unable to leave until 1916, when he went as second major of the 77th Overseas Battalion. In August, 1916, he became attached to the 60th Battalion in France, but was shortly afterwards, October, 1916, called from France to Bramshott, England, to command a Provisional Battalion, C.E.F. It was at this time, October, 1916, that Colonel Bowie’s eldest son, Lieut. Guy Gouin Bowie, left Canada for overseas with the 154th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F. Colonel Bowie remained in command of the Provisional Battalion until July, 1917, when he was seconded for duty with the Imperial Forces and proceeded at once to France. Arriving there he served under the Administrative Commandant, Third Army Railheads, as Staff Officer and O.C., Railheads Detail Detachment, till recalled to Canada in March, 1918. In the meantime his son, Lieut. Guy Gouin Bowie, who was born in Ottawa, October 10, 1892, followed in his father’s footsteps and had quite an eventful military career. He was appointed to the Active Militia, G.G.F.G., as Lieutenant on December 15, 1915, and received his certificate of qualification from the Officers’ Training School, Kingston, on January 20, 1916. On March 5, 1916, he was appointed Lieutenant in the 154th Infantry Battalion, C.E.F., and went overseas with that battalion on October 20, 1916. Arriving in England, October 31, he was appointed Lieutenant in the Imperial Land Forces, and on January 31, 1917, was transferred from the 154th Battalion to the 6th Reserve Battalion at Seaford, Sussex. On August 7, 1917, he was transferred to the 21st Battalion, C.E.F., France, and was dangerously wounded in front line trenches, Lens sector, December 14, 1917. Arriving at Clearing Station, Aubigny, December 14, 1917, he was transferred to the 24th General Hospital, Estaples, France, January 1, 1918, and on February 6, 1918, was transferred to Prince of Wales Hospital, London, England, where he remained until May 6, 1918, when he was invalided home. Lieut. Bowie was married October 10, 1916, at Ottawa to Lily Wright Brigham, daughter of T. G. Brigham, and has two sons, Thomas Guy and James Henry. Col. Bowie is a member of the Wellington Club, London, England, and the Royal Ottawa Golf Club, Ottawa. His home address is 82 Park Avenue, and his official address, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Robinette, Thomas Cowper, K.C. (Toronto, Ont.), enjoys an enviable reputation as a brilliant criminal lawyer, and as such has appeared with success in many famous cases, notably Macwherrel and Caledon wreck cases at Brampton, Healey and Blythe at Toronto, Mrs. Kyle at Woodstock, Dr. Robinson at Napanee and many others. Mr. Robinette is of U.E.L. descent, his family having come from Pennsylvania to Peel County, Ontario, in 1781. He was born at Dixie, Ont., near Cooksville in 1861, the son of the late Josiah Robinette and Esther J. Goodison. Educated at Public Schools, Strathroy High School and Toronto University, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts in 1884, and from that of law in 1887, with the Governor-General’s Gold Medal. He was Silver Medallist in Modern Languages and English Prizeman, also holding a Scholarship in General Proficiency. Although taking an active part in politics, Mr. Robinette has never yet represented any constituency, having contested Centre Toronto against E. F. Clarke unsuccessfully in 1904 and again in 1908 against Edmund Bristol, also North York, in 1911. He married Edith May Lindsay, of Pickering Township, Ont., in 1899, and has four sons, Thomas, Jr., John, George and Allan, also one daughter, Minnie. Thomas Robinette was made K.C. in 1902, a Bencher of the Law Society in 1911 and 1916; Member of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, Eng., in 1913; Director of the Moral and Social Reform League, Toronto, in 1913; President of the Methodist Young Men’s Association in 1906; President of the University Literary and Scientific Society in 1907; Chairman of the Young Liberal Convention, Toronto, in 1885; also Joint Secretary of the Dominion Young Men’s Association, formed at Montreal in 1886. Mr. Robinette is a Liberal in politics and a Methodist in religion. He is a member of the National Club, Ontario Club, R.C.Y.C., Canadian Club and Empire Club, all of Toronto, also of the Masonic, I.O.O.F., C.O.O.F., A.O.U.W., and Maccabean Societies. An ex-officer of the Queen’s Own Rifles and 34th Regiment, he is to-day engaged in the practice of law at Toronto as head of the firm of Robinette, Godfrey, Phelan and Lawson, in which J. S. Fullerton, K.C., late Corporation Counsel of Toronto, is associate counsel. “As a pleader, energetic, clear and painstaking”—“Toronto News.” “Has a trained mind, is accessible to new ideas, and has unusual gifts for the exposition and enforcement of his opinions”—“Toronto Globe.”