Wallace, Thomas George (Woodbridge, Ont.), eldest son of the late Hon. N. Clarke Wallace, M.P., ex-Controller of Customs, Grand Master Orangemen of British North America, and Belinda Gilmor (Wallace), Canadians of Irish descent. Born May 7, 1879, at Ottawa. Educated at Woodbridge Public School and Weston High School; general merchant and flour miller. Has had distinguished military career. Gazetted Captain of the 30th Regiment, Dec. 15, 1897. Resigned commission to go to South Africa in the Boer War, as private in the Royal Canadian Regiment (1st Contingent) 1899-1900. Was in first engagement the Canadians took part in at Sunnyside, 1st January, 1900. Medal with three bars, viz.: Cape Colony, Paardeberg and Driefontein. Prominent in the Orange Order, being Grand Director of Ceremonies of the Orangemen of British America. Anglican, Rector’s Warden of Christ’s Church, Woodbridge. Ranched for some time at McLeod, in the Province of Alberta. Well-known athlete, football and lacrosse enthusiast. Was Conservative Candidate Centre York for the House of Commons in by-election, December, 1907, when defeated by 26 votes. First elected to Parliament as representative of Centre York, at the general elections 1908, re-elected by 510 in 1911, and re-elected at the general elections in 1917 by a majority of 7,300 votes. Member of the Albany Club, Toronto. Captain Wallace is popular with all classes and a most useful member of the House of Commons.
Mondou, Alberic Archie, B.A., LL.B. (Pierreville, Que.), born February 2, 1872, at St. François du Lac, son of Eusebe Mondou, general merchant and farmer, St. François du Lac, and Georgianna Desmarais, both French Canadians; educated at Nicolet College and Laval University, Montreal, from which he graduated with the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. Married, September 16, 1895, to Augustine, daughter of Michel Cardin, of Yamaska, Que. Is a Notary Public by profession. President and General Manager of the Strathcona Fire Insurance Co.; Vice-President and General Manager of the Quebec and Western Canada Land Syndicate, Limited; was Local Manager Provincial Bank of Canada at Pierreville, Que., 1902-1911. He was elected, May 11, 1897, to the Quebec Legislature for the constituency of Yamaska and ran for the House of Commons for the same riding in 1900 in the Conservative interest at the general election, but was defeated; he was elected at the general election in 1911, retiring in 1917. He is a Roman Catholic in religion. Mr. Mondou is Independent in politics, he is a member of the Canadian Club of Montreal, and has long been recognized as a successful business man of sterling worth, prominently identified with various large enterprises.
Merner, Jonathan Joseph (Zurich, Ont.), born in Stanley Township, County of Huron, April 2, 1864, son of Gottlieb Merner, a Swiss, and Mary Ann Bleam, an American, a nephew of the late Senator Samuel Merner. Educated at Public School, Township of Hay, and subsequently went into the employ of Mr. D. D. Steinbach, General Merchant, at Zurich, where he acquired a good business training. Mr. Merner later embarked on his own account as a general merchant in Zurich, where he received his early mercantile experience and success has crowned his industrial activities and intelligent efforts. In connection with the business, a large evaporator and apple jam factory is operated. Mr. Merner also controls an extensive farm in the fine Township of Hay, and has large real estate interests in Western Canada. He first entered political life in the year 1911, when he was returned to the House of Commons as a Conservative to represent the riding of South Huron, and re-elected at the general elections in Dec. 1917. Mr. Merner, with his practical experience as a farmer and a merchant, and his large faith in the destinies of the Dominion, is most highly regarded by his constituents. On Oct. 3, 1900, he married Edith, daughter of Edward Graham, of Goderich, Ontario, and has six children, three girls, Minnie, Greta and Beatrice, and three boys, Edward, Clare and Borden. In religion Mr. Merner is a Methodist.
Lumsden, John. Ever active, progress followed the efforts of Alexander Lumsden, one of the pioneer lumbermen of the Ottawa Valley, and the father of John Lumsden, his only son, the subject of this sketch. On the death of his father in 1904, John Lumsden came into possession of large and rich timber limits in the Temiskaming region and a fleet of steamers for the transportation of men and supplies to the camps on the edge of Lake Kippewa. Inheriting his father’s energy and vitality and his determination to keep ahead of the times, Mr. John Lumsden is ever found at the helm directing his business and carefully sees that there is no lagging in the performance or execution of the necessary work. The lively town of Lumsden Mills, of over 500 inhabitants, lighted by electricity and with its planing mills, head offices, large general store, church, school, bakery, lumber, boat works and handsome homes—the creation of this great lumber industry and owned entirely by Mr. Lumsden—is nothing but hustle and bustle from morning till night and the abode of a happy and contented people who take great delight in watching the wheels of industry spinning and in doing their share towards the successful termination of each day’s labor. At his mills between 125,000 and 130,000 feet of lumber and 30,000 laths and pickets are turned out per day and sent to the piling grounds ready to be shipped to the markets of the world—to wherever the demand calls for them. While Mr. Lumsden has all these details and commercial and financial responsibilities resting upon his shoulders and demanding his careful administrative and executive attention he can, and does, find time to make his racing establishments truly representative on the American turf at Maryland, Saratoga and other places. His horses represent a big investment—there are between 20 and 30 of them—two-year-olds, three-year-olds, seasoned campaigners, jumpers, etc., and most of them are a gilt-edge breeding of British and Irish Stock and racers of the swiftest class to whom many prizes and honors have fallen. Mr. Lumsden is President, Dominion Explosives, Ltd., La Banque Nationale Building, Ottawa; President, Lumsden Lumber Company, Ltd., Ottawa; Director, Forwarders, Ltd., Kingston; Director, Caledonia Realties, Ltd., Montreal; Director, Security Life Insurance Company of Canada; Life Governor, St. Luke’s Hospital, Ottawa, and is closely associated with many other philanthropic and business interests. He was born at Ottawa, June 24, 1870, and is the son of the late Alexander Lumsden, M.P.P., and Margueretta Lumsden, of Scottish descent. He began his business career in the lumber business with his father and served apprenticeship as a machinist with the Patterson Law of Ottawa. He was chief engineer on a lake steamer from 1891 to 1893; was with the Laurie Engineering Company, Montreal; associated with his father, 1903-1905. In the latter year he went into business for himself. He established Dominion Explosives and became President in 1910. He organized the Lumsden Mining Co., and became President in 1906; organized the Lumsden Lumber Co. and became President, 1913. He is part owner of the Lumsden Building, Toronto; sole owner of the town of Lumsden Mills, Township of Gendreau, Province of Quebec. A member of the Ottawa Board of Trade; Director, Ottawa Horse Shows; offered building at Lake Temiskaming to K.E. Memorial Hospital for Consumptives. On May 11, 1905, Mr. Lumsden married Emily E. MacPherson, daughter of John MacPherson, Pioneer Mill Builder, Chelsea. He is a member of the following Clubs: Laurentian, Connaught Park Jockey, Royal Hunt, Rivermead Golf, Ontario (Toronto), Wabinini Hunting and Fishing, and of the A.F. & A.M. Society. His recreations are motoring, walking, reading. In politics he is a Liberal. In religion, a Presbyterian, and he resides at 38 Charles St., Ottawa.
McNeeley, John Strachan Lewis, Police Magistrate, Carleton Place, Ontario. Is the son of Joseph L. and Susan McNeeley, and is a barrister-at-law by profession. Born in the Township of Beckurth, November 28, 1870. Educated at Carleton Place High School and Trinity University, Toronto, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1893, and received the degree of M.A., 1895. Was called to the bar in 1897. Married, 1899, to Harriet Helen, daughter of the late Wm. Frost of Ottawa, and is the father of the following children: Harriet Helen, Madeline, Isabelle, Hilda, Dorothy and Edna Marion. He is a member of the Masonic Order and an Oddfellow; in religion, he is an Anglican. P.M. McNeeley has occupied his present position as Magistrate for the Town of Carleton Place since 1895. He was appointed member of the Corporation of Trinity University, Toronto, by the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of Ottawa in 1905, which position he held for several years. He was elected member of the Board of Education of Carleton Place in 1909 and has been a member of the Board ever since, being chairman in 1910-11. In politics Mr. McNeeley is a Conservative.