Tourigny, Alfred F. X., Advocate (Magog, Que.), was born at Batiscan, Champlain County, Que., the son of a farmer, L. E. Tourigny and Eugenie Trudel, who is a sister of the Honorable F. X. A. Trudel. Deciding to get a thorough education, he studied at Three Rivers, Que., and graduated with the degree of B.A. He studied law at Laval University, and graduated with the degree of LL.B. On August 10, 1898, he married Clara Marchand, the daughter of Louis Marchand, manufacturer, of Ste. Genevieve de Batiscan, Que., and has eight children—Olivier, Charles Edouard, Alfred, Anselme, Henri, Louis, Claire and Ives. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and a Conservative in politics, and at the present time he is Secretary-Treasurer of the town of Magog.
Widdifield, John W., Agriculturist (Uxbridge, Ont.), comes from Pennsylvania and New Jersey stock and is of United Empire Loyalist descent. After he graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College, he returned “to the land,” on the farm which had been homesteaded by the family for five generations; another branch of the family, the Lundys, pioneering on historic soil in the Niagara peninsula during this time. He has served as Reeve of Uxbridge Township, as Ontario County Councillor, as editor of the “O.A.C. Review,” as Secretary of the North Ontario Farmers’ Institute, and as Chairman of the County Committee on Agriculture. Mr. Widdifield has been a frequent contributor to the press, besides travelling extensively as a lecturer on Agricultural and Natural Science topics. In the general elections of 1914 he contested North Ontario in the Liberal interests, unsuccessfully, against Hon. W. H. Hoyle, Speaker of the Ontario Legislature. At the by-elections for the Ontario Legislature in Feb., 1919, as an Independent Farmers’ Candidate, he again entered the lists, at this time successfully contesting the riding with Major Harry S. Cameron. Born in Uxbridge Township, March 16, 1869, the son of Watson P. and Annie (Frankish) Widdifield, he was educated at the Uxbridge High School and Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ont., being admitted to the status of A.O.A.C. in 1894, and granted the Degree of B.S.A. by Toronto University in the following year. He married Lucy, daughter of Cornelius Dike, July 3, 1895, and has one daughter, Annie Enid Widdifield, born July 24, 1896.
Watt, John Ralston, Barrister (Claresholm, Alta.), was born in 1875 at Ayr, Scotland, and educated at Ayr Academy, Wimbledon and the Glasgow and Cambridge Universities. Graduated in 1896 with the degree of B.A. (Cantab.), is a director of the Alberta Agricultural Fairs Association and Secretary of Claresholm Agricultural Society; has written on “The Turf” and other subjects to various periodicals in Canada, the United States and Great Britain under the signature of “Craignorth.” In 1914 he was married to Jessie G. Young.
Wallis, Horace (Toronto, Ont.), born in London, England, 1862. Has had extensive newspaper experience and understands the work of a practical printer in all branches of the craft. Has had a successful career as an editor, journalist and parliamentary correspondent, having been editor and managing director of “The Quebec Chronicle,” and Associate Editor of the “Mail and Empire,” Toronto, for which paper he acted as Parliamentary correspondent, 1887-91, and resident Ottawa Correspondent, 1894-8; presented with silver service by the citizens when leaving Ottawa. Resigned position of Associate Editor of “The Mail and Empire,” 1905, to become Secretary to the Prime Minister of Ontario, and has been Deputy Minister of the Department of the President of the Privy Council since 1914. Has been President of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at Ottawa and Toronto; Vice-President of the Quebec Associate Press. Interested in motoring and golfing and identified with the Masonic Order. Has taken an active part in the establishment of Temperance organizations, and in the promotion of the Prohibition movement. A. F. Wallis, Registrar of the Surrogate Court of the County of York, is a brother, who has also had a distinguished career as a journalist. Mr. Wallis married in 1893, Miss Margaret J. Tripp, of Toronto. He is an Anglican in religion and has received many tributes to his worth and acknowledgements of the esteem he is held in by his fellow citizens.
Hagedorn, Charles Kappler (Kitchener, Ont.), was born in the County of Waterloo, February 5, 1859, son of Ernest A. P. Hagedorn and Mary Kappler, his wife. His father was a farmer who came from Hanover, Germany, when an orphan of twelve years old, settling in Waterloo County, where he worked at farm labor and by his diligence and economy acquired land and began farming on his own account, which he continued successfully until his death, in 1875. He was one of the early settlers of the county, clearing the homestead of 100 acres and endured all the difficulties and privations of pioneer life. The subject of this sketch was reared on his father’s farm and received a primary education at the public schools which was completed at the Normal school, Toronto. In 1877 Mr. Hagedorn began teaching in the public schools of his native county, which he continued until the end of 1884, when he turned his attention to mercantile life and acted as travelling salesman throughout the Province of Ontario until 1889, when he began the manufacture of suspenders and buttons. In 1895 he organized the Berlin Suspender and Button Company; in 1900 the present plant on King St. was erected. The company was later incorporated and subsequently, when the name of the city was changed, it became The Kitchener Suspender Company, Limited. The company employs a large number of skilled operators, and their product is known favorably throughout Canada. Mr. Hagedorn has given fully of his time and ability to his fellow citizens and served as Alderman in the City Council for a number of years, acting as Chairman of the Original Commission which operated the Electric and Gas Plants when these public utilities were taken over by the city. He has been an active member of the Board of Trade and was for two years president. Mr. Hagedorn is a Presbyterian in religion, and has been Superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School and an Elder for many years, taking a deep interest in temperance work. He has been President of the Waterloo Temperance Alliance for a number of years. Mr. Hagedorn was married on May 15, 1889, to Emily, daughter of John Cairns, of Kitchener, who was a pioneer farmer of North East Hope Township, now retired. He is the father of three children, Lloyd Elmo, Grover Cairns, and Edna Aleen. Politically he is a Reformer; in business affairs and in his private life he is a man of strict probity, and has always displayed promptness, reliability and sterling honesty in all his relations with his fellow citizens, by whom he is held in the highest esteem. He is well informed and is regarded as being a progressive man thoroughly in touch with modern progress.