Marshall, Lieut.-Colonel Noel G. L. (Toronto, Ont.), Merchant, is one of those “British Born” who have carved out for themselves successful careers in Canada, although, since he was but four years old at the time of his parents’ removal to this country, his view-point is essentially Canadian. Born in London, December 30, 1852, the son of Kenric R. and Charlotte A. Marshall, he was educated in the Public Schools of Toronto and entered the service of L. Coffee & Company at the age of fifteen. Subsequently he was employed by George Chaffey Bros., Coal Merchants, and in 1879 purchased an interest in the C. J. Smith Coal Company. In 1888, Noel Marshall, in company with Sir William Mackenzie, bought out the entire business and three years later changed the corporate name to that of The Standard Fuel Company. For the past sixteen years he has represented the Toronto Board of Trade at the Canadian National Exhibition, of which he is now Honorary President. Among other business connections, Mr. Marshall is President of the Faramel Company, Ltd., of Toronto; and the Dominion Automobile Company, Ltd.; Vice-President of the Imperial Guarantee and Accident Company; of the Chartered Trust & Executor Company; Director of the Sterling Bank, Western Canada Flour Mills Company, Ltd.; Canada Northern Prairie Lands Company, Ltd. Noel Marshall was a member of the Toronto Board of Education, 1890-91; member of the Toronto Board of Trade since 1899, and a member of the Council of that organization for several terms. He was created Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1915, and was gazetted Honorary Lieut.-Colonel in the same year. He is at present Chairman of the Central Council and Executive Committee, Canadian Red Cross Society; President of the Open-Air Horse Parade Association; Vice-President of the National Chorus and Provincial Council, Canadian Boy Scouts; member of the Ontario Parole Commission; Treasurer, Laymen’s Missionary Movement of the Church of England; Governor of the Western Hospital, Toronto; Vice-President of the Hospital for Incurables; member of the Board, Children’s Aid Society, Orphan Boys’ Home, Working Boys’ Home, British Welcome League, Imperial Home Re-union, Imperial Daughters of the Empire, Women’s Welcome Hostel, Georgina Houses, and Bishop Strachan School. Colonel Marshall married Harriette Isabel, daughter of John Hogg, M.P., York Mills, Ont., in 1879, who died on December 4, 1904. He has two sons. Col. Kenric R., D.S.O., and Noel Clifford. He is a member of the York, National, Albany, Granite and Royal Canadian Yacht Clubs, all of Toronto. He is a Conservative in politics and an Anglican in religion.
Turnbull, Walter Renwick (Brantford, Ont.), President of the Turnbull Cutcliffe Hardware Company, Ltd., was born in Brantford Township, the son of William Turnbull, his father being a farmer and for many years the Secretary-Treasurer of the Brant Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He has served six years as Alderman of the City of Brantford and is Chairman of the Brantford Municipal Railway Commission. Mr. Turnbull married Alice Ada, daughter of Wm. Buck, Stove Manufacturer, Brantford, on December 3, 1890; he has one son—William Archibald. His recreations are bowling and motoring, being a member of the Brantford Social and Bowling Club. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. and a life member of Doric and Ozias Masonic Lodges. Mr. Turnbull is a Liberal and a Presbyterian.
McClennaghan, Stewart. Who is there in Ottawa that has not heard of, or does not know, Stewart McClennaghan? Yes! who does not know him? No one in the city, or for that matter for many miles of country surrounding the Capital of the Dominion, can be found that does not know the President and General-Manager of the famous 2 Macs, Limited, dealers in fine tailoring, hats, furnishings, clothing and boots and shoes, for men and boys, with entrances on Sparks, Bank and Queen Streets, at the busy Corner—corner of Sparks and Bank Streets, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Not only is he well known: he is also one of the most popular business men, social companion, lover of sports, and general good fellow with all his friends, acquaintances and customers to be found in any community, and his success in life, and his popularity, are what have sprung from his open, genial and straightforward conduct towards and with all who have had the good fortune to come in contact with him ever since he arrived in Ottawa in 1879 when he became an apprentice in the dry goods business in which line he served for ten years. Mr. McClennaghan has held almost every public office in the gift of the citizens of Ottawa—Public School Trustee, member of the Collegiate Institute Board, Controller of the City of Ottawa, Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board, President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, Justice of the Peace, Member of the Board of Trade, Chairman of the Boxing Committee of the Ottawa Amateur Athletic Club, Vice-President of the Sportsmen’s Patriotic Association, President of the Liberal Conservative Association, Promoter of the Connaught Park Jockey Club and a member of the Original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway Scheme which to-day is receiving such prominent attention from all lovers of good roads and from the Ontario Government—and could have held them all and been elected to others of equal or even more importance had he so desired. Whenever he was put forward as a candidate for any office—public, political, educational, sporting or social, his election was assured, and when he consented at a most critical time in the history of Ottawa’s Municipal Administration, to be a candidate for Controller he polled the largest majority ever secured by any man running for public office in the city. In addition Mr. McClennaghan is profoundly patriotic and public spirited and ever since the war started has been active, energetic and generous in helping forward Canada’s effort. His son, Lieut. Stewart Lyon McClennaghan served in France with distinction in the Royal Flying Corps, and his nephew, Lieut. Vivian S. C. McClennaghan of the Canadian Engineers, son of Mr. James McClennaghan of the Marine Dept., has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery while in charge of an important tract which was being heavily shelled and bombed and completed his task though twice buried by shell fire. In 1889 Mr. Stewart McClennaghan formed a partnership with the late Mr. M. D. MacKay as merchant tailors under the name of the 2 Macs—McClennaghan & MacKay. Three years later, in 1892, Mr. McClennaghan bought out Mr. MacKay and continued in the business until 1904 when he organized a joint stock company under the name of the 2 Macs, Limited, he becoming President and Managing-Director. To-day the business is recognized as one of the largest outfitting establishments in Canada, handling everything in boys’ and men’s wear, and occupying some 5,000 square feet of floor space, with a frontage of 100 feet on Bank Street, 66 feet on Sparks Street, and 33 feet on Queen Street, with the prospects in evidence that considerably more space will shortly be necessary if the business continues to expand as it has during the past decade. From 1900 to 1908 Mr. McClennaghan was a member of the Public School Board and was chairman for two years, and from 1908 to 1911 he was a member of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board from which he resigned to run for Controller of the City of Ottawa, as above stated. During the existence of the City’s Publicity Board Mr. McClennaghan was Chairman. Mr. McClennaghan is Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board and has been a member of the Board for many years. He is President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association. His first year of office, 1917, terminated with the Exhibition showing the largest receipts ever obtained in the history of the Association. He is a Justice of the Peace for the City of Ottawa and for the County of Carleton. He is a member of the Council of the Board of Trade, and has been a member of the Board for years. In amateur sports Mr. McClennaghan has been prominently identified for many years. In 1890 he won the gold medal presented by the Ottawa Amateur Association for the one mile snow shoe championship of the city. He was President of the Ottawa Bicycle Club and a member of their racing team. He was Chairman of the Board Committee of the Ottawa Athletic Club for several years. He is one of the promoters of the Connaught Park Jockey Club, became Vice-President, and is now Chairman of the Management Committee. He is Vice-President of the Sportsmen’s Patriotic Association, and it is he who is responsible for and was one of the original Committee who started the Prescott and Ottawa Highway Scheme. From 1916 to 1918 Mr. McClennaghan was President of the Ottawa Liberal Conservative (now Unionist) Association. Mr. Stewart McClennaghan is the son of William John (Contractor) and Sarah (Boyd) McClennaghan and a nephew of Mr. N. K. Boyd, ex.-M.P. for MacDonald, Manitoba. He was born at Oxford Mills, Ontario, July 14, 1866, and he was educated at the Ottawa Public Schools. August 19, 1895, he married Matilda A. Lyon, daughter of the late John G. and Victoria Lyon, of Ottawa. The union has been blessed with two sons and five daughters—Lieut. Stewart Lyon, Nora Boyd, Hilda Brook, Ruth Hasley, Helen Read, Hugh John, Doris Victoria. He is a member of the following Clubs: Laurentian, Rivermead Golf, Victoria Yacht, Abitibi Fish and Game, and of the following Societies: Masonic, Oddfellows, Foresters and Workmen. In religion he is Anglican and in politics Conservative. For recreation he indulges in golf, hunting and yachting. His military career was spent in the ranks of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. His place of residence is 330 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
Buchanan, William A., M.P. (Lethbridge, Alta.), Publisher, was born in Fraserville, Peterboro County, Ont., July 2, 1876; the son of Rev. Wm. Buchanan. His earlier education took place in the Public and High Schools of Trenton, Brighton and Norwood, Ont. He first became interested in newspaper work in Peterboro, Ont., and later was News Editor of the “Evening Telegram,” Toronto, removing from there to accept the position of managing director of the St. Thomas Journal; remaining in that position until 1905, when he decided to try his fortune in the West, locating at Lethbridge, Alberta, where he established and became publisher of the “Lethbridge Herald,” first as a weekly and, in 1907, changed it to a daily. For two years he was President of the Alberta and Eastern British Columbia Press Association, and Director of the Western Associated Press. He entered politics in 1909, in the Liberal interests, and was elected as the first member to represent Lethbridge City in the Alberta Legislature, and became a member of the Rutherford Government in the fall of the same year. In 1911 he resigned, over a difference of opinion on a railway bargain, and then contested the Constituency of Medicine Hat for the House of Commons, defeating the late member, C. A. McGrath (Conservative) by a majority of 1,500. Mr. Buchanan was a member of the Special House of Commons Committee on old age pensions and on redistribution. In the general elections of 1917 he was a candidate as a Unionist Liberal, and was elected by a majority of several thousand. He is now Unionist Whip for Alberta. In 1918 he was a member of the party of Canadian Journalists invited to visit the Western front and Great Britain. During the war he was actively engaged in patriotic movements, more especially the Patriotic Fund and Belgian Relief Fund. While living in Ontario, Mr. Buchanan took a great interest in military affairs and became Quartermaster of the 25th Regiment, at St. Thomas. He is interested in all kinds of sports and takes a keen pleasure in golf; was Secretary and Treasurer of the Ontario Hockey Association during John Ross Robertson’s Presidency, and was the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Alberta Amateur Athletic Association; is a member of the Chinook and the Country Clubs of Lethbridge; Ontario Club, Toronto, and the Laurentian Club, Ottawa. For two years he was President of the Canadian Club, of Lethbridge. Mr. Buchanan married Alma Maude Freeman, daughter of Edwin B. Freeman, of Burlington, Ont., and has one son, Donald W., born April 9, 1908. He is a member of the Methodist Church.
Williams, Herbert Hale, head of the firm of H. H. Williams & Co., Toronto, Ont. The name of H. H. Williams is a familiar one in the Canadian real estate field. For many years now his firm, that of H. H. Williams & Co., with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, has occupied a prominent place among the old-established and conservative real estate businesses of the Dominion. Mr. Williams himself, who is the active head of the firm, is a native of Toronto. Born on September 21, 1862, he received his education in the local public schools and the Toronto Grammar School. For a short time after matriculating from the latter institution, he studied law in the office of George Morphy, but presently relinquished the idea of becoming a lawyer in favor of following a mercantile career. His first employment was obtained in the office of Taylor Bros., paper manufacturers, Toronto, where for two years he filled the position of book-keeper. Then he turned his attention to the lumber business, in the prosecution of which he met with much success. He succeeded in developing an extensive connection with the railroads of the country, furnishing them with the timber and manufactured lumber needed in construction and also built up a considerable export trade to the United States in clear lumber. In 1886 Mr. Williams withdrew from the lumber business and entered the real estate field. He founded the firm of H. H. Williams & Co. and began those operations which have subsequently established his reputation as a sane, far-sighted and reliable dealer. To give some idea of the extent and importance of the undertakings which Mr. Williams has handled during the past few years in Toronto, mention might be made of the following large transactions, all of which were carried through in their entirety by the firm of H. H. Williams & Co.: The purchase for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company of the right-of-way along the Esplanade; the purchase, also for the C.P.R., of the old Government House property on King Street, together with three blocks of land extending from Simcoe Street to Spadina Avenue, south of King Street, in connection with the establishment of freight terminals; the purchase of the two blocks bounded by Yonge, Carlton, Church and Alexander Streets, which with subsidiary properties involved an investment of over five million dollars; the purchase, on behalf of the Dominion Government, of properties required for a new general post office, a new railway postal station and an enlarged customs house; and the purchase of the two blocks bounded by Yonge, College, Teraulay and Hayter Streets, comprising nine acres of land in the very heart of Toronto and forming one of the most important retail locations in the city.