“I am aware that the proud consciousness of your past achievements has not made you indifferent to future improvements and that you are still busily engaged in honourable emulation of your predecessors, in promoting plans which will increase the Commercial strength and prosperity of Montreal and further advance the general welfare of the Dominion.”

CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEE OF TRADE, MONTREAL

From Its Inception in 1822 to 1841 When It Was Changed into the Montreal Board of Trade

1822-25Thomas Blackwood
1825-33George Auldjo
1833-34James Miller
1834-35T.M. Smith
1835-36George Auldjo
1836-37J. Quesnel
1837-38A. Cuvillier
1838-39Adam Ferrie
1839-41A. Cuvillier

PRESIDENTS OF MONTREAL BOARD OF TRADE

1842-43J.T. Brondgeest
1844-45-46Hon. George Moffatt
1847Thomas Gringan
1848Hon. Peter McGill
1849-50Thomas Ryan
1851-52-53-54Hugh Allan
1855Hon. John Young
1856-57-58E.H. Holton
1859Thomas Kay
1860Hon. John Young
1861Edwin Atwater
1862Hon. E.H. Holton
1863Thomas Gramp
1864-65Peter Redpath
1866John McLennan
1867-68Thomas Rimmer
1869J.H. Winn
1870-71Hon. John Young
1872-73Hugh McLennan
1874-75William Darling
1876-77Andrew Robertson
1878-79Henry Lyman
1880-81-82-83T.W. Henshaw
1884-85John Kerry
1886-87-88Hon. Geo. A. Drummond
1889-90James P. Cleghorn
1891Robert Archer
1892G.B. Greenshields
1893-94W.W. Ogilvie
1895James A. Cantlie
1896Robert Bickerdike
1897John McKergow
1898James Crathorn
1899Charles F. Smith
1900Robert Mackay
1901Henry Miles
1902Alexander McFee
1903Arthur J. Hodgson
1904George E. Drummond
1905William I. Gear
1906F.H. Mathewson
1907George Caverhill
1908T.J. Drummond
1909F. Robertson
1910George E. Cains
1911Jeffrey H. Burland
1912Robert W. Reford
1913Huntley R. Drummond
1914Robert J. Dale

SECRETARIES

1842-49Fred’k A. Wilson
1849-50Charles Lindsay
1851-54Alex. Clerk
1854-63John Dinning
1863-86Wm. J. Patterson
1886George Hadrill