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C.H.B. Johnson was a salesman for Thomas Meredith Hardware and was an amateur photographer based in Toronto.

Albert Tucker (1923- ) was a Canadian historian and author of "Steam into Wilderness," a history of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and Ontario Northland Railway.

Albert V. Tucker taught history at the University of Western Ontario between 1959 and 1966, and at Glendon College from 1966 to 1968. He was appointed Principal of Glendon College in 1970.

Frank McEachren (1918-1995) was the Chief Aide-de Camp for six Lieutenants-Governors in Ontario from 1955 to 1982.

Frank McEachren was born on June 6, 1918 in Surrey, England. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Aurora, Ontario and attended Trinity College, University of Toronto in 1940, where he received his Bachelor of Arts. McEachren married Florence Eaton, the daughter of Lord John and Lady Eaton in 1940, and they had two children, Gilbert and Signey. Gilbert died in 1984.

McEachren joined the 48th Highlanders Regiment in 1940, and served in Sicily and Italy during W.W.II. He returned to Canada in 1944, and began work at the T. Eaton Co. as a public relations manager. In 1951, McEachren became the first director of the newly established Public Relations Office. McEachren went on to become the chairman of the Eaton Foundation, and was active in the philanthropic community in Toronto. He worked at different times as president of the Ontario Council of the St. John's Ambulance, Chairman of the Ontario Arts Council, President of the Canadian Cancer Society, President of the Canadian Opera Company, Governor of the Canadian Players Foundation, and Governor of St. Andrew's College. He was also a board member for the Toronto Board of Trade, the Canadian Public Relations Society, and the Council of Bishop Strachan School. He was named the Honorary Colonel of the 48th Highlanders.

McEachren began his career at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor as an aide in 1955. He went on to become the Chief aide-de-camp for the following Lieutenants-Governor: Louis Orville Breithaupt, John Keiller Mackay, William Earl Rowe, William Ross Macdonald, Pauline McGibbon, and John Black Aird. He retired from the position in 1982. McEachren was also appointed as Prince Andrew's official guardian while he studied at Lakefield College in Peterborough in 1977. McEachren died in April 1995.

E. J. Lennox (1854-1933) was a Toronto-based architect active between 1876 and 1924.

He was born 12 September 1854 in Toronto. His father, born in Antrim County near Belfast, Ireland, had a grocery business, speculated in real estate, and ran a hotel on Francis St.

E.J. Lennox was educated at Toronto grammar and Model Schools, then studied architecture at the Mechanics Institute, graduating first in his class in 1874. He apprenticed in the architectural office of architect William Irving for five years, then did an architectural tour of Europe. In 1876 Lennox entered into partnership with William Frederick McCaw. In 1881 Lennox left this partnership and established his own practice, which flourished. By 1885 his was one of the largest practices in Toronto, and in 1887 it won the competition for the new Toronto Municipal and County Buildings. In 1901 he purchased a building on Bay Street to house his firm. After W.W.I he was less active in practice on account of failing eyesight, but his firm remained open until after his death, with his son Edgar E. Lennox as a partner from 1925.

Lennox was responsible for over 75 buildings in the Toronto area, including churches, private residences, office buildings, and factories. Between 40 and 50 of these structures survive. He built houses, missions, a headquarters and a mausoleum for the Massey family, and offices and `Casa Loma' for Sir Henry Pellatt. He was known for an original adaptation of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in his public buildings, such as the Manning Arcade, the Medical Council Building, the Freehold Loan and Savings Building, old City Hall, the Beard building, the Toronto Athletic Club, and the rebuilt West Block of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park.

E.J. Lennox was a staunch Anglican, a mason, and a member of the Orange Lodge, the Board of Trade and other recreational clubs. He also served as a Toronto Transit Commissioner from 1923-1929, and on the board of the Manufacturers' Life Insurance Co. and the Manitoba Land Co.

He married Emeline Wilson and had four children: Eola Gertrude, Edgar Edward, Mabel Emeline and Edith May. When Ontario legislation was passed in 1931 for accreditation of architects, E.J. Lennox applied for and was granted this status at age 75. He died at `Lenwil' on April 16, 1933.

Eric Ross Arthur (1898-1982) was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and was one of Canada's most prominent architects and architectural historians.

Educated in England, Arthur emigrated to Canada, where he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto. He developed a strong interest in early Ontario architecture, and in 1932 he founded the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, to promote interest in the preservation of Ontario's architectural heritage.

Arthur wrote a number of books of architectural history, including "Toronto: No Mean City" in 1963, (later revised with Stephen Otto in 1978); "The Barn: A Vanishing Landmark in North America" (with Dudley Witney, 1972); and "From Front Street to Queen's Park" (1979). He received numerous awards for his scholarship and activism on behalf of heritage preservation, including two L.L.D's, two Gold Medals (one from the Corporation of the City of Toronto), and the Order of Canada.

Rowley Murphy (1891-1975), an artist and art instructor, was a Canadian painter of marine and naval subjects.

Murphy was awarded a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1912, after which he studied art in Europe during the 1920s. Murphy later became an art instructor for a number of institutions, as well as for the Ontario Department of Education. In 1943 he became a council member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Besides being a noted landscape painter, Murphy helped design camouflaged ships for the Royal Canadian Navy, and designed a full scale replica of LaSalle's ship the "Griffon." Murphy also wrote a number of articles dealing with well-known landmarks such as the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse on Toronto Island.

William S. Goulding was a professor at the School of Architecture, University of Toronto during the 1960's and 1970's.

Between 1966 and 1969, he headed the Goulding Architectural Survey of Ontario to find, record, and assess every building built in Ontario before 1855 that was still usable. The project was financed by a grant from the provincial Department of Tourism and Information to the University of Toronto School of Architecture. The survey formed part of the national inventory of the Historic Sites Division of the federal Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.

Albert J. Kinsey was a Toronto, Ontario purchasing agent and amateur photographer.

Fredrick Robson (Fred) Davis (1896?-1963) was the first and official photographer of the Dionne quintuplets.

It is believed that Fred Davis grew up in the United States. He served for Canada in the First World War, and was wounded at Amiens. In 1919, he began his career as a photographer with the Toronto World, later working with the Mail and Empire and from 1923 with the Toronto Star. He was the staff photographer at the Star for many years as a member of its "flying squad" of reporters and freelance photographers. It was as a member of this squad that Davis travelled to Callander, Ontario on 30 May 1934 to obtain the first pictures of the newborn Dionne quintuplets.

Fred Davis remained in Callander to cover the Dionne story, and was involved in negotiating an exclusive contract for the Star, which sold exclusive international rights to NEA but retained Canadian distribution rights. This agreement and later contracts between NEA and the Official Guardians covering the period 1935 to 1939 stipulated that Davis or another photographer satisfactory to Dafoe would take the photographs of the quintuplets. In practice, this meant that Davis, who had become friends with Dafoe and at whose insistence often accompanied the doctor on his various travels, was official photographer. For his services, Davis was paid by NEA. In addition to his work as official photographer, Davis held a license from the Guardians to sell postcards and prints of the Quints in small souvenir lots. For a time he operated the Quintuplet Studio located at Simpson's in downtown Toronto. Davis was not restricted in his contract with NEA from taking freelance assignments, and in 1935, for example, he photographed the Moose River mine disaster, selling those pictures to the Associated Press.

In 1939, NEA allowed its contract to lapse, and Davis went to work for King Features Syndicate which had entered into a new contract with the Guardians. He later left King Features and in 1946 formed Canada Pictures Limited in partnership with Strathy Smith of Toronto. They operated this company until 1962, with Davis continuing to take freelance assignments such as covering the Diefenbaker election campaigns of the 1950s.

John Mowat (1791-1860), father of Sir Oliver Mowat, came to Canada as a soldier in the early nineteenth century, and became established in business at Kingston, Ontario where he raised five children.

John Mowat (1791-1860), was born in Canisby, Scotland. In 1807 he joined the 3rd (East Kent) Regiment of Foot and served in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic wars, leaving his fiancee, Helen Levack in Caithness. Following the end of the war in 1814, Mowat's regiment was transported to Canada where it took part in the battle at Plattsburg, 11 September 1814. Sometime following the end of the war with America, Mowat was discharged and he entered business in Kingston.

By 1819 Mowat had established himself and married Helen on the day of her arrival in Montreal. They settled in Kingston, raising five children: Oliver (1820- 1903), George L. (1824-1871), John B. (1825-1900), Catherine (1828-1916), and Jessie Bower (1833-1913). John was a founder of Queen's University and an officer in the Kingston Field Battery.

John Bower Mowat (1825-1900), brother to Sir Oliver Mowat, was a minister in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario and was appointed chair of Theology and Hebrew at Queen's University during the late nineteenth century.

John Bower Mowat, was born in 1825, and later entered the ministry. In 1849 he was called to St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, where he remained until 1857. At that time he was appointed to the chair of Theology and Hebrew at Queen's University, where he remained until 1900. Edinburgh University conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity on him.

John Bower Mowat married Janet McGill in 1854. She died ten days after giving birth to Robert McGill in 1856. John married Emma McDonald, daughter of the Hon. John McDonald of Ganonoque. Children of this second marriage: Herbert (1862-1928), Evalyn Lillian (1865-1955?), Henrietta Ethelwyn (1868- 1928), and John McDonald (1872-1916). John Bower Mowat died on 16 July 1900.

Alexander Kirkwood (1823-1901) was a public servant in the Lands Branch of the Ontario Department of Crown Lands, 1854-1900.

Alexander Fraser (1860-1936) was a journalist, historian, lecturer, Official Secretary and A.D.C. to the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario from 1914 to 1933, and the first Archivist of Ontario, from 1903 to 1935.

William Kingsford (1819-1898) was an engineer and historian who worked on various railroads, and served as Canadian Government Engineer in charge of Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence harbours.

Thomas William Gibson (1859-1941) was a public servant and, later, consultant with the Ontario Department of Mines, 1880-1941.

Lillie Mary Pringle Hunt (1867-1937) was an early settler of Minden, Haliburton County, Ontario, and later Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Alexander Brohman (fl. 1877-1937) was a wagon-maker who lived in Mildmay, Bruce County, Ontario.

Malcolm Cameron (1808-1876) was a politician in Upper Canada and Canada West from 1837 to 1867, and federally after Confederation.

Malcolm Cameron was born in Trois Rivieres, Lower Canada, on April 25, 1808 to Angus Cameron and Euphemia McGregor. When he was young he moved to Upper Canada, settling in the Perth area and opening a general store in 1828. He also undertook a newspaper, the Bathurst Courier, in 1834. In 1835 he began to move his interests to the Sarnia area, but was elected as a moderate reformer to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Lanark in 1836. His volatile political career spanned four decades, and he was noted for his tendency to rapidly switch allegiances and for his explosive temper. He was also a sworn enemy of George Brown. In 1837 he sided with the reformers led by Robert Baldwin, but by 1841 was opposed to them. He was re- elected many times, in 1844 and 1847 for Lanark, and in 1851 the took the riding of Huron. In 1854 he ran in both S. Lanark and Lambton but lost in both. In 1857 he won in Lambton. Following Confederation, he entered federal politics, although he lost a by-election in 1869 in Renfrew. In 1874 he was elected as a Liberal in S. Ontario. He died on June 1, 1876 in Ottawa.

John Whitford (fl. 1883-1908) was the Secretary of the Brooklin, Ontario Council of Royal Templars of Temperance (No. 102), and a collector for the Upper Canada Bible Society.