A History of Quebec: Its Resources and People : Illustrated, Volume 2 |
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A History of Quebec: Its Resources and People: Illustrated;, Volume 2 Benjamin Sulte,C. E. Fryer No preview available - 2017 |
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active afterwards appointed Association Bank Bank of Montreal became Board of Trade born in Montreal business career Canadian Pacific Railway Church circles city of Montreal College commercial connection Conservative Council County daughter defeated director Dominion of Canada educational privileges elected England entered enterprise father firm French Canadian Garrison Club George Government governor graduated Grand Trunk Grand Trunk Railway Honorable House of Commons institution interests John Joseph Judge King's Counsel late later Laval University Lennoxville Liberal Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Manager manufacturing Marie married Miss McGill University Medical merchant Montreal Board Montreal General Hospital Montreal Hunt Mount Royal native Ontario Ottawa parents partnership Pelletier political position practice Presbyterian President profession prominent Province of Quebec Railway Company re-elected religious faith Rideau Club Roman Catholic School Scotland Sherbrooke Society sons success Superior Court surgeon Taschereau tion to-day took Toronto Vice-President Victoria William
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Page 602 - Manson to be a man of broad intelligence and genuine public spirit, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review.
Page 556 - The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave the perpetual record establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his fellowmen.
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Page 556 - Fortunate is the man who has back of him an ancestry honorable and distinguished, and happy is he if his lines of life are cast in harmony therewith. In person, in talents and in character Aime Geoffrion is a worthy scion of his race.
Page 565 - He belongs to that class of men who wield a power which is all the more potent from the fact that it is moral rather than political and is exercised for the public weal rather than for personal ends.
Page 613 - Garvey, a native son of the city, whose record stands in contradistinction to the old adage that a prophet is never without honor save in his own country...
Page 680 - On the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Mahomedan Literary Society presented His Highness with an Address of Loyal Welcome.
Page 517 - ... self-control that will enable him to lose his individuality, his personal feelings, his prejudices and his peculiarities of disposition in the dignity, impartiality and equity of the office to which life, property, right and liberty must look for protection.
Page 630 - When a man or a select number of men, have set in motion the machinery of business, which materializes into a thousand forms of practical utility, or where they have carved out a fortune or a name from the common possibilities, open for competition to all, there is a public desire, which should be gratified, to see the men, so nearly as a portrait and a word artist can paint them, and examine the elements of mind and the circumstances by which such results have been achieved.