A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time by Rose
1886. At the close of 1887 he was appointed by the Imperial government
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to act, in conjunction with the Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, in negotiating
a treaty with the government of the United States of America in relation
to the Canadian fisheries, and the commissioners brought their labors to
a close during the month of February, 1888. While in the Nova Scotian
legislature, Sir Charles introduced and saw carried through many
important measures, which are now bearing good fruit. Among the measures
he introduced into the House of Commons at Ottawa, and saw pass into
law, we may mention the act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors in the North-West Territory, the Consolidation
Railway Act of 1879, the act granting a charter to the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company in 1881, the act of 1884 granting a loan to that
company, the Railway Subsidies Acts of 1883 and 1884, and the act of
1884 respecting an agreement between the province of British Columbia
and the Dominion of Canada. Sir Charles was appointed by Act of
Parliament, in 1862, governor of Dalhousie College, Halifax; and was
president of the Canada Medical Association from its formation in 1867
until 1870, when he declined re-election. In October, 1846, he was
married to Frances Morse, of Amherst.
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=Inglis, George=, Owen Sound, Ontario, was born at Inglis Falls, three
miles from Owen Sound, on the 26th July, 1850. He is the second son of
Peter Inglis, who was one of the first pioneers in the town of Owen
Sound, having first arrived there in 1843. The subject of this sketch
was educated at the Owen Sound Grammar School. Leaving school in
January, 1867, he entered his father’s woollen mills, and remained there
three years, during which time he thoroughly mastered the details of the
business. In 1870 he was put in charge of his father’s office, in the
court house, his father at that time holding the position of deputy
clerk of the Crown, clerk of the County Court, and registrar of the
Surrogate Court, and had charge of the office until 1877, when his
father resigned, and he was appointed in his stead. In 1885 he was made
local registrar of the High Court, and in 1886 he also received the
appointment of deputy registrar of the Maritime Court. In 1879 he was
appointed a high school trustee by the county council, which position he
has held ever since. At the present time he fills the position of
chairman of the Board of Education, and has had the honor of being
elected thereto for the last six years in succession. He is the
president of the Cricket Club in the town, and also secretary-treasurer
of the Curling Club. He takes an active interest in secret and
benevolent societies, being a member of the Masonic order, and of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a pastmaster of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen, and a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. On
account of holding government offices, Mr. Inglis has never taken an
active part in politics or municipal affairs. He is a Presbyterian, and
a regular attendant at Knox Church, Owen Sound.
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=Partridge, Rev. Francis=, M.A., D.D., Rector of St. George’s Church,
Halifax, Secretary of the diocese of Nova Scotia, and late Canon of
Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, was born at Dursley,
Gloucestershire, England, on the 2nd April, 1846. He is a son of Charles
Partridge, of the old Gloucestershire family of Partridge, of Wishanger,
near Cirencester. The earliest record of this family dates from _temp._
Richard II. Miles Partridge, esquire of the unfortunate Protector, the
Duke of Somerset, was knighted for his gallant conduct on the field of
Pinkie. William Partridge, the London police magistrate, and Richard
Partridge, the noted surgeon, are of the same stock. His mother is
Catherine Gilmour, of the family of Gilmour, whose seat is at
Craigmillar, near Edinburgh, Scotland. Her grandfather, Colonel James
Lyon Gilmour, was quartermaster-general for many years at Quebec. The
Rev. Mr. Partridge was educated at Lady Berkeley’s Grammar School,
founded in 1300, at Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. He was a
foundation scholar from 1855 to 1862, and from 1862 to 1864, tutor in
the family of the Rev. Isaac Williams, B.D., a friend of Newman and
Pusey, and one of the original writers of “Tracts for the Times,” and
closely associated with the Oxford Tractarian movement. During 1864 and
1865 he was classical master at the grammar school at Dursley. In 1865
he matriculated at St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, having been
strongly moved to take up missionary work, and expecting to obtain the
best training for that purpose at this college. He was mission essay and
Whytehead prizeman for Greek Testament in 1866, and also took the first
place in final medical examination, in 1867. After finishing his college
course, he received the appointment of principal of the county Grammar
School at St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick, the duties of which he assumed in
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