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1850. His father, Richard Clarke, was a general merchant and flax buyer,
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favorably known in that capacity throughout the whole north of Ireland.
His mother, Ellen Reynolds, the only daughter of the late Charles
Reynolds, of Belturbet, county of Cavan, Ireland, is still living, and
resides in Toronto. Mr. Clarke came to Canada early in the sixties, and
after a short sojourn in Michigan, moved to Toronto, where he has ever
since lived. He served his time as a printer in the _Globe_ office, and
afterwards, in the practice of his calling, was foreman of the
_Express_, the _Sun_ and the _Liberal_, and was compositor and
proof-reader on the _Mail_, etc. He took a prominent part in the
printers’ strike and attendant labor troubles of 1872, being one of
those arrested for alleged intimidation. In 1877 a company was formed
for the purchase of the _Sentinel_, the organ of the Loyal Orange
Association. He was chosen manager and editor of the paper, but after a
short time he purchased the shares of the stockholders, and became sole
proprietor. He has since conducted the _Sentinel_ successfully in
connection with a large job printing business. He has for many years
taken an active interest in secret societies, especially in the United
Workmen, Freemasons and Loyal Orange Association. He is a past master of
Rehoboam lodge, No. 65 A. F. & A. M., and at the regular annual meeting
of the Loyal Orange Association, held at Belleville, in May, 1887, he
was elected to the high office of Deputy-Grand Master of the Order in
British America. At the provincial elections of 1886, Mr. Clarke was
returned at the head of the poll as one of the city of Toronto’s quota
of three representatives to the Legislative Assembly. In December, 1887,
he was put forward as the people’s candidate for mayor of his adopted
city for 1888, and was elected by a plurality of nearly nine hundred
votes in a field of three candidates. He is a Liberal-Conservative in
politics, and during the last session of the provincial legislature made
a favorable impression as a speaker and debater. He is a fluent, ready
speaker, of good address, and well informed upon all public subjects. He
was married on 30th December, 1884, to Charlotte Elizabeth, fourth
daughter of Dan Scott, of Toronto, and has issue, two daughters. Mr.
Clarke is a consistent member of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and,
although not a total abstainer, is an advocate of temperance reform.
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=Carignan, Onesime=, Three Rivers, Quebec, was born on October 16th,
1839, at Champlain, district of Three Rivers, Que. His parents, Pierre
Carignan and Josephte Turcotte, were well-to-do farmers, who were highly
esteemed by their neighbors. The subject of this sketch was sent to the
parish school, and at the age of fifteen, commenced his business career
by accepting a clerkship in a general store in Champlain. Two years
after he went to Three Rivers, where he procured a situation as clerk in
a grocery store. In 1863 he entered into partnership with Francis Hamel,
but two years after, this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Carignan
entered into business for himself in the house he still occupies. His
business has continually increased, until now it is conceded that he has
the leading grocery of Three Rivers, doing a wholesale as well as a
retail trade. His success is due to economy, good administrative
abilities, and constant attendance to the details of a growing business.
He has been an alderman of Three Rivers since 1876, and has been acting
mayor on more than one occasion. He has also held the position, of
president of L’Union St. Joseph since 1885. Mr. Carignan has taken an
active part in the public enterprises undertaken in his neighborhood,
notably in connection with the Three Rivers Water Works, the St. Maurice
Bridges, and the Three Rivers drainage. He has been president of several
benevolent and religious societies, has been president and is now
treasurer of the Three Rivers Conservative Association. He has always
taken an active part in political movements, municipal, provincial and
federal. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, an ultramontane. He was
married on November 15th, 1864, to Aglaé Lebel, of Quebec.
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=Archibald, John Sprott=, Q.C., D.C.L., Professor of Criminal and
Constitutional Law in McGill University, Montreal, was born in the
village of Musquodoboit, Halifax county, N.S., on the 8th September,
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