A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time by Rose
1880. He has been for some time a member of the Board of Education of
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Perth. In politics, he has taken an active interest, and was a candidate
for parliamentary honors, on the Conservative side, in South Lanark, in
1879, but was defeated by only fifty-three of a majority. Again he
contested the same riding, in 1883, but again suffered defeat; this
time, however, by only twenty-nine of majority. He has resided in Perth
since he commenced the study of the law, and is the senior member of the
firm of Elliott & Rogers, solicitors, etc., doing a good law business.
In 1882 Mr. Elliott was called to the bar of Manitoba. In 1880 he joined
the True Britons’ lodge, No. 14, A. F. and A. M., and has taken an
interest in the order ever since. He has travelled through the United
States, and the greater part of Canada. In politics, he is a
Liberal-Conservative; and in religion, is a member of the Church of
England. He has held the office of warden, and is also a lay delegate to
the Diocesan Synod. He was married on the 5th July, 1870, to Harriet,
youngest daughter of the late John Rudd, merchant, Perth, and has a
family of four girls.
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=La Rue, Thomas George=, Quebec, Notary Public and Collector of Inland
Revenue for the Dominion of Canada, in the division of Quebec, is
descended from one of the most ancient French families in New France,
represented by Jean de La Rue, who settled at Quebec in 1636, and
married Jaqueline Pin, in 1663, one of the first pupils of the Ursuline
nuns of Quebec. Thomas George La Rue was born at St. Jean, Orleans
Island, on the 21st December, 1834, and is the second son of Nazaire La
Rue, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the militia, and a notary public.
His mother was Adelaide Roy. He was educated at the Laval University,
and was admitted to practice his profession on the 4th February, 1856.
Mr. La Rue is noted for the lively interest he, in common with the late
Dr. Hubert La Rue, and his brother, a professor at the Laval University,
has taken in agricultural pursuits in the province of Quebec. In 1867 he
published, in the _Evénement_ newspaper, several essays, under the title
of “Causeries Agricoles,” bearing on the experiments he had made on his
farm on the Island of Orleans, and these were, in 1872, collected and
issued in book shape by the _Journal d’Agriculture de St. Hyacinthe_,
and distributed all over the province. He was a member of the Notarial
Board for the province of Quebec, from 1862 to 1879, and was elected
vice-president of it in 1876. In 1869, jointly with the Hon. Louis
Archambault and Emery Papineau, his colleagues, he prepared the
constitution which governs the Board of Notaries for the province of
Quebec. For twenty-five years he was an active worker in the ranks of
the Liberal party, and in 1862 acquired by purchase, assisted by the
Hon. Ulric J. Tessier, now a judge in the Court of Appeal; Francis
Evanturel, ex-minister of agriculture; the late G. Joly, seignior of
Lotbinière, father of the present Hon. H. G. Joly; and J. G. Barthe,
barrister, the journal known as _Le Canadien_. And this newspaper
originated in its columns such a fierce opposition to the government of
the day—the Cartier-McDonald—on the Militia Bill, that it compelled it
to resign and give way for the formation of the McDonald-Sicotte
administration. Mr. La Rue was mainly instrumental in securing for the
Liberal party the parliamentary division of Quebec East, which, ever
since the warmly-contested election of the Hon. Senator Pantaléon
Peltier, in 1871, has remained until this day, a fortress to the party.
In 1872 he came forward on the Liberal ticket, in the county of
Montmorency, but was beaten at the polls by the late Jean Langlois, Q.C.
In 1874 the McKenzie administration entrusted him, as a notary, with the
settlement of the claims arising from seignorial dues in the province of
Quebec. In 1878, Mr. La Rue finally withdrew from politics, and accepted
the important appointment of collector of inland revenue for the
division of Quebec, the duties of which he has continued to fill ever
since. In 1857, he was married to Helen Marie Louise, eldest daughter of
the late Pierre Guénette, a merchant in Quebec city.
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=Baynes, William Craig=, B.A., was born in Quebec in 1809. He was
educated in England for the service of the East India Company, but on
the death of his father gave up the appointment, and later entered
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1836. In
1839 he was summoned to receive his M.A., but had scruples of conscience
as to taking the oath of conformity, and the higher honor was refused.
Mr. Baynes came of a military family. His father saw service in Africa,
where he assisted in the capture of the Cape in 1795, and in India, and
was adjutant-general of the army in Canada and colonel of the Glengarry
Fencibles in the war of 1812. Three of his sons also entered the army.
Mr. Baynes married in 1841, and in 1843 returned to Canada, and settled
in the neighborhood of Kingsey, where his father had purchased land.
Here he carried on farming for twelve years, giving it up in 1856, when
he received the secretaryship of the Royal Institution for the
Advancement of Learning (McGill College, Montreal), which post he held
continuously until his death, which took place on Sunday, 9th October,
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