Rich Strike, Diesel prices, press freedom, George Harrison's Mercedes, Chickens and Golf.
May 8 2022, Volume 2 # 49
This is a lot more exciting than the stock market.
Rich Strike came in at 80 to one. The jockey, Sonny Leon is one talented fellow.
Stocks continue to drop
Let’s take one example: Shopify. The Canadian online firm was once the richest stock on the Toronto Exchange, even ahead of the Royal Bank of Canada. Not anymore. It was down more than 30% in the last two days of this week alone. Profits off.
Take a look at this chart over the past 12 months.
Surprising Ratings for Freedom of the Press
Most Canadians, Americans and Brits might be shocked to see they are only listed as satisfactory in the Press Freedom rankings. Reporters without Borders looks at five criteria: “Political context, Legal context, Economic context, Sociocultural and Safety.” The complex language, using context for example, shows a tilt towards the academic, which usually means a leftish bias.
Along with the Nordic countries and Portugal, Ireland is said to be the freest in Europe. Irish journalist Kevin Myers might disagree. He has written some wildly controversial stuff — Google him — but he is a media outcast in one of countries with the the freest press ratings in the world. Myers said sorry, but he’s still a pariah.
Central Europe, including Poland and Ukraine, doesn’t do too well. Neither does Italy for some reason I couldn’t fathom.
Diesel
Diesel prices in the US hit yet another new record on Wednesday at $5.43 per gallon, now $1.20 more than a gallon of gasoline. And that is cheap compared to what people pay just a few kilometres north of the border. Do the conversion and that comes to C$6.92 for an American gallon. But of course it is sold in litres here and that American price would be C$1.83 a litre. As you can see below, the price is C$2.39.9.
I drive a diesel. At these prices filling it up costs C$223. Just a few months ago filling up cost less than C$100.
Comparing Canadian and American prices is tricky: here’s the website that does the work:
The rule of thumb is that every 10% that fuel prices go up it adds a three percent increase to inflation. Diesel prices add more to inflation than gasoline prices, because goods are delivered by trucks that run on diesel. That get passed on.
Some of the big renewable countries got into trouble going overboard. Spain first subsidized solar and people invested in solar panels to feed the grid and their bank accounts. Tens of thousands of Spanish citizens went bankrupt when the government changed its mind and cut the rates.
Germany dumped nuclear only to rely on dirty coal and Russian oil and gas. We know where that went.
George Harrison’s Cars
George Harrison arriving for the filming of Get Back in a white Mercedes 600.
The youngest Beatle may have been into eastern mysticism but he was also into western luxury: Porche 911s, Aston Martins and an E-Type Jaguar. Manager Brian Epstein bought him the e-Type for his 21st birthday.
As he drove the Mercedes limo know and the car known as Der Grosser: the Mercedes 600. Last June it sold to a British buyer for just over US$200,000. That is probably double the market value for saying: “I own George Harrison’s Merc.”
It is 18 feet long, has 6.3 litre V8 and every luxury of the day. Rather large for a car he drove every day.
These shoes are made for running
And just about anything else, from work to basketeball. Nike is still number one by a long shot in the running shoe world. I don’t like the word sneaker.
Brands such as Vans or New Balance are not included in the chart: these are owned by private companies that don’t have to report sales figures.
Chicken Broadcast
This weekend I broadcast to eight Canadian cities, from St. John’s to Yellowknife. The subject was keeping backyard chickens.
Link to my CBC Saskatchewan interview on keeping hens.
Essay of the Week
It is the start of summer, and the golf season in Canada. I played golf as a boy, but I don’t play now. I did write a history of the Knowlton Golf Club for its 100th anniversary in 2020. The late Peter Walsh started it and I took what he wrote and expanded on it. Peter was a lawyer, and writes in a style much different from mine, which you will notice in some passage. We also had to modernize some of the language, such as referring to an early woman member as “She who must be obeyed”.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this book for me is that it is a history of English Quebec. The people who founded the Knowlton Golf Club were English; today the club is at least three quarters French. That reflects reality. It did present a rather tricky problem when writing the book. The book is in English and French, translated by Jacqueline Grenier, who speaks and writes perfect English and French. She also acted as a copy editor. Skip Eaman, a friend of mine who has won the Club Championships more than anyone else, made sure the golf lingo and photos were correct. There are 18 chapters, one for each hole, and at the start of each there is a quote from a member describing the hole.
In the final book, there is an English page on the left, a French page on the right. You can never keep everyone happy. There were some minor complaints that the book was either too English or too French. When you hear that, you know you probably got it right. Here are the first two chapters.
Chapter 1
The Land on Which We Sit
Number 1 is memorable. It’s a long 420-yard par 4 slightly downhill with a trap on the left-hand side. What’s unique about it is that there’s a ditch ten yards in front of the green. That means you cannot roll the ball up onto the green; it’s a heck of a challenge. From the clubhouse it’s a beautiful looking hole so it sets your day if you had never played here before. Skip Eaman
There is a reason the Knowlton Golf Course is the most beautiful course in Canada. It is the land on which we sit.
The Knowlton Golf Course is blessed with a starkly beautiful landscape, gentle slopes and valleys, and real hills, unlike the flat terrain of other golf courses. We sit on the northern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, the northward extension of the White and Green Mountains of New England.
This was once the territory of the Abenaki, whose sovereignty spread over what we today call the Eastern Townships and south into what it is now the state of Vermont. The Abenaki were the first to learn to tap the Maple trees to produce sweetener. They travelled by water through the area; their main village was on the St. Francis River near Sherbrooke. There are few accounts of contacts between early settlers with the Abenaki. Col. Paul H. Knowlton referred to the presence of Abenaki Indians at a campsite at the first inlet on Yamaska Lake, a site close to where the Quilliams Wildlife Reserve is today.
William Porter was the first recorded owner of lot 14 in Rang 11 – the old measurement which made up the major part of the club’s first nine holes. Mr. Porter acquired the property around 1800, though he never lived on the land.
COL. PAUL H. KNOWLTON
Col. Paul Holland Knowlton was the son of Silas Knowlton, an original settler in Stukely and an associate named in the letters patent for that township. Col. Knowlton came to farm and cleared the main property running from Yamaska, the old name for Brome Lake, in or about 1815.
The land was sold by one of William Porter’s relatives to Col. Knowlton’s cousin Ezekial in 1813 and Ezekial sold it to Paul in 1815.
Col. Knowlton operated a farm on the property in person for a number of years and subsequently engaged a tenant farmer when he moved to the area which became the Village ‘Knowlton.’ The property was farmed in this fashion for about 40 years. The cleared area was about 200 acres with an additional 100 acres for pasture.
Waah Brae, the clubhouse that could have been
Until about 1850 there was no road on the east side of the lake and access to and from Col. Knowlton’s property from the outside world was via a modest trail to the now-closed Bolton Road at the rear of the farm property. The colonel ran a store and a distillery, where potato whisky was produced and, according to legend, served by the colonel to bystanders at noon from a pitcher. His home, which served as home for golf professionals, club managers and staff. It is one of the oldest houses in the Townships, and now sits on the grounds of the Brome County Historical Society. Col. Knowlton was a successful businessman and built a much more elaborate farmhouse at the other end of what is now the golf course. That property was passed on to his daughter.
SARAH AND HIRAM SEWELL FOSTER
Col. and Mrs. Knowlton adopted a niece, Sarah Knowlton, who inherited the lake property. She married Hiram Sewell Foster, son of the legendary Dr. Stephen Sewell Foster, the first Foster in a distinguished Brome Township lineage. They lived in the original home for a while but built a new brick house prior to 1853 on the site where our clubhouse now stands. Hiram Sewell Foster sold the property to Christopher Dunkin, stated to be of the City of Montreal as well as the Township of Brome and member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
THE HON. CHRISTOPHER DUNKIN
The Hon. Christopher Dunkin made additions to the home, and it was indeed regarded as the finest home in the Townships in its day. It was known as ‘Lakeside’ as early as 1864. It was here that Queen Victoria’s son, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (and Governor- General in 1911), was entertained on June 13, 1870. The Prince planted a seedling oak on what became the front lawn of the club, a mighty tree which stood until 2009 when it was blown over in a violent storm. Its plaque reads:
“This fine oak was planted on 13 June 1870 by HRH Prince Arthur the Duke of Connaught (Governor General of Canada in 1911) on the occasion of a visit with the Hon. Christopher Dunkin Q.C. the then owner of the property”.
Christopher Dunkin, born in England, came to Canada in 1836. He was elected member for the County of Brome in 1862 and following Confederation (which he opposed vehemently) became Minister of Agriculture in the government of Sir John A. Macdonald. He was a judge of the Superior Court and a lieutenant-colonel as well. Following his death, the property passed to his nephew Christopher Dunkin Bancroft who sold the property in August 1909 to John Baillie. Mr. Baillie later acquired another part of property from Sen. G.G. Foster.
JOHN BAILLIE
John Baillie made extensive improvements to the magnificent home, which he renamed “Waah Brae.” Brae is Scottish for hillside; what waah means is anyone’s guess. On January 3, 1918, with the temperature at minus 37, the home was destroyed in a fire, a great loss, not only for the Baillie family but for the whole Eastern Townships as well.
Mr. Baillie deeded the property to the club on August 16, 1921, for the price of “$1.00 and other good consideration.” In the minutes of the first annual meeting on March 28, 1922, it is stated that the club had agreed to “purchase the John Baillie farm of 120 acres for $16,000.” Presumably, the ‘other consideration’ was the issue to Mr. Baillie of the 1922 first mortgage bonds of the club. Bondholder records of some years later indicate that “the present bondholders had subscribed enough money to pay the purchase price” for the property but that Mr. Baillie had “generously contributed by accepting a considerable number of bonds in lieu of cash.” A generous benefactor.
OTHER CLUB PROPERTY
Title to the land employed in constructing the second nine derives from a deed of sale from Mrs. Pearl Vernot to the club dated April 27, 1968, and involves part of lot 1379 of the Township of Brome and part of lot 80 of the Township of West Bolton. More about that property much later.
Chapter 2
Number two is a par 4 of 373 yards tree-lined on both sides. It was renovated in 2013. We weren’t able to see the pin at any time until we got to the green. It was knocked down quite a bit so that now we can see the pin and it’s an accessible green protected by bunkers on the right.
Dan Bogan (The current pro)
“What Knowlton needs is a good golf course”
The words uttered by Mrs. Foster at one of the two informal meetings held at the residence of Senator G.G. Foster. Mrs. Foster, born Mary Maud Buchanan, was an enthusiastic golfer. Her family owned the farm and stone house where the Casgrain family now live, and her brother was one of the founding members.
“The idea of a golf club first originated with the Knowlton Board of Trade in the Fall of 1919,” read the booklet published by the club in 1923. It states Mr. A.L. Paterson proposed the formation of a club at a meeting held at the residence of Sen. G.G. Foster in September 1919. It goes on to say that it was in the spring of 1920, following a visit of Mr. J.A. Birks, that Mr. A.L. Paterson began the task of getting people interested.
We may presume the group included, in addition to Senator G.G. Foster, the club’s first officers, namely Mr. Paterson; Col. William Leggat, Senator Foster’s neighbour; G.B. Foster, son of G.G.; and F.A. Morgan. These gentlemen occupied the offices of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer respectively. Also included would have been the members of the first Executive Committee of the club: C.G. Mackinnon; Dr. N.M. Harris; C.W. Buchanan; J.D. McKeown; and Alfred Collyer, the latter being president from 1924 to 1933.
Senator George Foster.
Many of the men or their sons and daughters had just returned from the battlefields of the First World War. There are 63 names of those who did not return listed on the impressive War Memorial on the grounds of Knowlton Academy. The dead included the federal member of Parliament, Lt. Col. George Baker, the only MP to die in action in France.These people yearned for a return to normalcy. What could be more civilized than the game of golf?
The popularity of golf exploded in North America in the two decades before World War I. The Royal Montreal Golf Club, the oldest continuing club on the continent,started life on the slopes of Mount Royal on Fletcher’s Field, spawned a number of other clubs in the Montreal Area - Metropolitan, Westmount, Outremont and Kanawaki.
The beauty of Brome Lake and its surroundings led to the following reference in the Canadian Handbook and Tourist Guide of 1867: “…the next object of interest in this section is Brome Lake, lying some sixty miles from Montreal in a lovely section of country. Near the head of the lake is Knowlton, a place which bids fair to become a permanent summer residence of some of the Montreal bon ton; and certainly a more sequestered and yet accessible spot could scarcely be had.”
The write-up mentions the way to get to Knowlton was by train to Waterloo and then by stagecoach. Think of that the next time you encounter heavy traffic on Highway 10
EARLIER BOATING AND GOLF CLUBS IN THE TOWNSHIPS
Not surprisingly water sports were the first attraction and a group of cottage owners and local residents, interested in promoting the boating and social life in their community, began to lay the foundation of what would become the Brome Lake Boating Club. The club was founded in 1901 and received a provincial charter in 1902.
Golf clubs in the Townships were formed at Lennoxville and Sherbrooke in 1896 and 1897. Granby Miner and Waterville followed within five years.
Of particular interest to residents of the Knowlton area was the founding of the Hermitage Country Club in 1916, a club offering every conceivable summer activity and beautifully situated on the eastern shore of Lake Memphremagog.
The Hermitage and the other golf clubs in the Eastern Townships were a further impetus to the group that met at Senator Foster’s house. Those busy, successful and influential industrialists, entrepreneurs and professionals dreamed of long lazy weeks of summer holidays with large families, visiting relatives and sundry camp followers. They decided that a golf course was the thing, and they made the brilliant decision to hire Albert Murray to find the most suitable property.
Albert Murray was superbly qualified for the challenge. By 1920 he had done it all. A caddy at age 14, he had learned the skills of club making and other arts of the game working for several years as an assistant professional to his more famous brother Charlie. Charlie Murray was the head professional at Royal Montreal from 1904 to 1938 and the winner of two Canadian Opens.
Albert Murray was no slouch. He played in his first Canadian Open as a sixteen-year- old wearing short pants. He won it as a twenty-year-old and remains to this day the youngest person ever to win. Murray won it a second time in 1913. During that decade he acted as head pro for many clubs and, of greater significance to our founders, gained considerable experience and an excellent reputation as a golf course architect.
Albert Murray studied the scene and, in the words of an early club booklet, “...reported that the Baillie property was ideal and had certain novel features which made it exceptionally desirable.” A.L. Paterson, who became our first president, was authorized by the founding group to enter into negotiations with Mr. Baillie and a purchase price was agreed, payable through the issue of bonds as has been noted elsewhere.
In the first summer, interclub matches with the Granby and Hermitage Clubs, competitions were said to be ‘keenly contested.’ Dr. F.W. Harvey, our first club captain and father of Dr. Robert Harvey, president in 1977-78, won the first club championship in 1921.
The club became a member of the Canadian Golf Association. A Ladies committee was said to have served tea. The installation of an adequate water supply system at the cost of $4,000 was authorized. There was an early discussion of arranging for the services of a visiting golf professional and, in 1922, the president was authorized to engage T.J. Devlin as our first professional. With Mr. Devlin came the redoubtable Mrs. Devlin, who seems to have functioned first as caddy master but later as our first club manager.
The mood of the membership was buoyant as expressed in the club booklet of 1923: “The success of the first two seasons leaves no doubt in the minds of the committee as to the future of the club. The extent of the improvements to be made and the development of the property depends upon the financial support and enthusiasm of the club members. The committee are investigating fully the question of an adequate water system and supply, which is necessary to keep greens in perfect condition during the playing season.
Owing to the congestion of the course during the past season, the Greens committee have in view the construction of two new holes, as shown on the plan. These would lengthen the course by 400 yards and leave the first and second holes for practice purposes.
In conclusion the shareholders should realize that there are many opportunities for improvement of the club in the future, such as the erection of a suitable clubhouse which will provide more comfortable quarters for the members than is at present possible with the available accommodation, and that there is sufficient property for an 18-hole course when membership is large enough to warrant it.”
Where were we? An examination of the lists of bondholders, shareholders and membersas of February 1923 is instructive. Of the 100 odd members, only 39 were not residents of Montreal and of those, 25 were from Knowlton, nine from Sutton and, giving a new club an exotic international flavour, Mr. Louis Pratt, a bondholder and honorary vice president from Paris, France. The list shows 11 junior members and 39 ladies including of course the golfenthusiast Mary Maud Buchanan (Mrs. G.G. Foster). Elizabeth (Libby) Nixon, our first woman president and perennial caretaker of the club’s best interests pointed out that 100 years later no less than twelve of the original member families are represented in our current membership.
We are fortunate to have found in the files of the Brome County Historical Society a photograph of the original clubhouse. The late Barbara Buchanan, daughter of C.W. Buchanan, one of our founders, recalled a golden moment in early club history. She remembered as a young girl of about seven, sitting on the verandah wearing a favourite smock dress, eating a sandwich and noting the passage on foot in front of the club of Mrs. Margaret Fisher, wife of P.S. Fisher, an original shareholder and bondholder. Mrs. Fisher was strolling purposefully towards Knowlton, perhaps to shop and visit friends. Quite a ‘stroll’ considering that she had started from Alva House, the Fisher home, near Fisher’s Point. The sandwich was undoubtedly cucumber and served on a Sunday afternoon at high tea by the Ladies committee of the day.
ALFRED COLLYER
Alfred Cap Collyer, president from 1922 through 1933, is a hero of the first decade. Alfred Collyer was born in the County of Kent, England in 1872 youngest of six boys. His mother died six days later, and his aunt raised him. His family farmed in Kent and Sussex and came out to Canada in 1879 eventually settling in Manitoba, near the U.S. border. A well-educated Alfred joined them in 1888 and quickly decided that farming was not for him.
He applied to McGill and was accepted becoming an electrical engineer in or about 1890. While details of his early career are vague, he became president of Montreal Heat, Light and Power and Sangamo, a manufacturer of industrial time clocks. One of our LeMessurier cartoons suggests that he also held executive office with Montreal Tramways Company.
Barbara Buchanan described Cap Collyer as “a large florid man” standing six foot three inches with size 12 brogues. He has been captured superbly in the Le Messurier caricature hanging in the clubhouse. The cartoon depicts the horse and buggy which he drove to the club each Saturday from his beautiful farm on the lakeside past Fisher’s Point which he had acquired in 1912.
Cap Collyer was a busy businessman running the club for ten years, most of the time from Montreal. He also served as president of the Quebec Golf Association (1927-1928) and the Canadian Golf Association (1930-1931) and in the 1930s was president of the Royal Montreal Golf Club.
While we have few vignettes from the life and times of Cap Collyer, we are fortunate to have notes from an interview with the late Homer Blackwood. Homer caddied regularly for Cap Collyer receiving 25 cents for nine holes and a bottle of orange soda as a tip. Homer recalled making, in his first caddying efforts, what he thought was an astute comment concerning the fate of a Cap Collyer shot which had flown deep into the woods. “That’s not good, is it sir”? he recalled saying. “That’s enough, son,” was Cap’s rejoinder.
The minutes and annual reports indicate a preoccupation with improving the course. From time to time professional help was sought, and it is interesting to note that Charlie Murray, the head professional at Royal Montreal from 1905 to 1935, Albert’s better-known brother, was consulted several times. He was regarded as Canada’s top competitive golfer through most of those years. Significant changes were made to holes number five, six and seven of the ‘old nine’ in 1928 on his recommendation and later to holes number two and three. In 1933 a resolution was adopted expressing appreciation to Charlie Murray for his “continued interest in the club.” The reports reflect the outrages visited upon the course by Mother Nature and heroic efforts of our then professional and course superintendent T.J. Devlin. Greens were shifted and holes lengthened.
List of Members of Knowlton Golf Club 1922
Name Class of Membership Residence
Ashton, W.E. . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Barry, V. . . . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Bell, Miss H. . . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Foster, P.Q.
Bell, Miss M. . . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Foster, P.Q.
Blaydon, Mrs. J.B. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Blaydon, L. . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Boright, G.N. . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Boright, R.M. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Boright, T.G. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Buchanan, Mrs. C.W. . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Buchanan, C.W. . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Carter, H.L. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Collyer, Alfred . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Unknown
Collyer, Mrs. A. . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Collyer, Miss E. . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Collyer, R.J. . . . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Cornell, Miss E. . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Cornell, J.G. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Cowie, F.W. . . . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Creighton, W.R. . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Creighton, Mrs. W.R. . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Curley, C.E. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Davidson, J. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Davignon, Miss L. . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Dawes, K. . . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Dingle, Mrs. G. . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Dingle, G.S. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Dingle, H. . . . . . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Name Class of Membership Residence
Dorion, Mrs. G.W. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Doucet, L.P. . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Doucet, Miss L. . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Doucet, Miss M. . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Erskine, D. . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Erskine, Jack . . . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Erskine, K. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Erskine, Mrs. . . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Fisher, P.S. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Fisher, Mrs. P.S. . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Foster, G.B. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Foster, Hon. G.G. . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Foster, Mrs. G.G. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Foster, Miss R.E. . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Granger, W.R. . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . .Westmount
Harris, Dr. N.M. . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Harris, Mrs. N.M. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Harvey, Dr. F.W. . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Harvey, Miss H. . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Harvey, Miss J. . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Leggat, Wm. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Leggat, Mrs. Wm. . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Lowden, Mrs. W.K. . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Lynch, W.W. . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sherbrooke
MacDonald, D.O. . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
MacKay, W.M. . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
MacKinnon, C.G. . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
MacKinnon, J . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . .Bondville, P.Q.
Nom Catégorie Résidence
MacKinnon, Miss . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . .Bondville, P.Q.
MacMaster, A.R. . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
MacMaster, Mrs A.R. . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
MacMaster, Miss A. . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
MacMaster, Miss F. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
MacMaster, Miss M. . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Madley, E.G. . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
McFarlane, B. . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
McKeown, Miss A. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
McKeown, Miss G. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
McKeown, H. . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
McKeown, J.D. . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
McKeown, J.H. . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
McKeown, Mrs. J.H. . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Monk, F.A. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Monk, Mrs. F.A. . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Morgan, F.A. . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Morgan, Mrs. F.A. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Nichols, Miss E. . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Parker, J.E. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Paterson, A.L. . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Paterson, Mrs. A.L. . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Paterson, Miss J. . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Pratt, Louis . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . .Paris, France
Pullen, John . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Pullen, Mrs. . . . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Reid, Miss D. . . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Reid, L.G. . . . . . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Nom Catégorie Résidence
Robertson, G.E. . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Roberts, L.M. . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Roberts, Mrs. L.M. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Rodger, J. . . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . .Westmount
Rodger, Mrs. J . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Westmount
Safford, F.L. . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Safford, Miss N. . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Scully, Miss I. . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Scully, V.E. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Slack, F.A. . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . .Waterloo, P.Q.
Southam, F.N. . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Stairs, G.S. . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Stairs, Mrs. G.S. . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Strachan, Miss D. . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Westmount
Westover, A.W. . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . .Sutton, P.Q.
Williams, A.A. . . . . . . .Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Williams, F.N. . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Williams, Mrs. F.N. . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Williams, J. . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Wilson, J. . . . . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Wilson, Mrs. J. . . . . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Montreal
Wood, Alex J. . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . .Westmount
Wood, Mrs. Alex J. . . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Westmount
Wood, J.C. . . . . . . . . .Ordinary . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Woodley, A.T. . . . . . . .Shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
Woodley, Mrs. A.T. . . .Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Knowlton
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The last two names on the list are Mr. and Mrs. Woodley. I now live in the house in Knowlton where they lived.
Fred Langan is a business journalist who for many years was the host of CBC's nightly business newscast. Among other things, he was the business reporter for The National and The Journal. He wrote and hosted hour-long documentaries for CBC Current Affairs, and produced and hosted documentaries for Christian Science Monitor Television. He was the Canadian business and finance correspondent for The Economist for eight years, writing 250 articles for the publication. He wrote for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune and was the Canadian writer for the Christian Science Monitor for 20 years and The Daily Telegraph (London) for 12 years. Langan writes long-form obituaries for the Globe and Mail. He is editor (volunteer) of Tempo Lac-Brome, a bilingual local monthly. Langan has published two novels and 12 biographies.