=Mackenzie, Norman, K.C.=, one of the leading barristers of the Canadian West, is head of the firm of Mackenzie, Thom, McMorran, McDonald, Bastedo and Jackson, Regina, Saskatchewan. He was born at Sarnia, Ont., January 27, 1869, the son of John Alexander and Helen Mackenzie. He was educated at private schools. Upper Canada College and Osgoode Hall, Toronto. He read law in the offices of Morphy, Miller, Levesconte & Smythe, Toronto, from 1888 to 1891, and in latter year was called to the Ontario Bar. He at once went to Regina, then the capital of the North-West Territories, was there called to the Territorial Bar and commenced practice. On the division of the North-West Territories into Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, he became a solicitor entitled to practice in both Provinces by virtue of the Act. Was created K.C. in 1907, was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of the North-West Territories in 1898, and continued to represent the North-West Territories until 1905, and since then the Province of Saskatchewan, retiring in 1919 as a Bencher ex-officio under the Act, during which period he was at different times President of the Society, served as Public Administrator from 1898 to 1910; 1916 to 1918 he was Vice-President for Saskatchewan of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Mackenzie finds his chief recreation in art and in his dogs. He is a member of many social organizations including the Assiniboia Club, Regina, Wascana Country Club, Regina Golf Club, Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. He is a Presbyterian and a Liberal in politics. On May 29, 1909, he married Clara Erma, daughter of Henry McMorran of Port Huron, Michigan and resides at 2336 Victoria Ave., Regina.
=Johnston, Ebenezer Forsyth Blackie, K.C.= (Toronto, Ont.), was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, December 20, 1850, and received a thorough scholastic training in his native country. He came to Canada in boyhood, and for a short time looked to farming as an occupation and became also interested in educational matters. The bent of his mind being in the direction of the law, he pursued the studies thereof, and in 1876 was sworn in as a solicitor, and in 1880 he was called to the Bar, and practised at Guelph for a few years, where he met with big success. Upon receiving the appointment (in 1885) as Deputy Attorney-General and Clerk of the Executive Council, he came to Toronto, and held the position for four years. He then resumed the practice of his profession and was subsequently appointed for three years Inspector of Registry Offices, which office, by reason of his increasing practice he was compelled to resign in 1894. He has frequently acted as Crown Counsel at the Provincial Assizes, being retained in several important murder trials, and in that capacity has won distinction and success, by reason of the fact that he has perhaps conducted more criminal cases than any man in Canada. To cite a complete or anything like a complete list of the cases which he has been retained for, would read like a city directory. He was a gentleman of pleasing address, yet withal a forceful orator, and had the faculty of being in a position through his remarkable tenacity to hold the jury and convince them to his way of thinking. He had a ready mental grasp, quick and clear conceptions, and was ever ready to see a point and turn it to the advantage of his client. In 1887 was appointed a Commissioner to enquire into the working of municipal institutions, and was president of the Guelph Caledonian Society, and secretary of the Reform Association for a number of years. He was appointed as Q.C. by the Ontario Government in 1890. Mr. Johnston was senior partner of the well-known law firm of Johnston, McKay, Dodds & Grant. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Bank of Canada, Chairman of the Standard Reliance Mortgage Corporation, Director on several Boards, and President of the Chartered Trust Co. He was for some years a Bencher of the Law Society. Mr. Johnston passed away January 29th, 1919.