Generally speaking, in comparing the biographies of the Canadians of to-day with those of 1886 and 1888, the reader gains a sense of this country’s continuous expansion. The present century has witnessed a marvellous development in the Canadian West, so that in these pages we find numerous records showing not merely the commercial, but the intellectual, progress of the Provinces West of the Great Lakes—stories of brilliant careers built up by men who were mere children in the East when the first volume was published. The reader will also note in the biographies of business men which abound in these pages, the ever-increasing scale on which Canadian commerce and enterprise everywhere is conducted, so that what seemed large in 1886 is relatively small to-day. Though some of the men whose names figure in the index are of less importance than others, all play their part in our complex and vigorous social life, and the story of their progress and fortunes cannot be really tedious to any sympathetic student of humanity.
Adamson, Alan Joseph, 124 Adamson, John Evans, 121 Aikenhead, Thomas E., 47 Aikins, Lieut.-Col. Sir James Albert Manning, 81 Allan, John, 98 Ames, Sir Herbert B., 4 Ami, Henry M., 142 Amyot, Lieut.-Col. John A., 299 Anderson, Alexander James, 126 Anderson, Frederic William, 75 Anderson, Prof. George R., 144 Anderson, James T. M., 65 Antliff, Rev. James Cooper, 52 Arkell, Thomas Reginald, 180 Armstrong, Samuel, 174 Arnold, William McCullough, 114 Arrell, Harrison, 52 Arsenault, Hon. Aubin E., 215 Ashby, Joseph Seraphin Aime, 127 Ashton, Major-General Ernest, 270 Askwith, John E., 106 Asselin, Major Olivar, 144
Bâby, Wolstan Alexander Dixie, 229 Bachand, Leonide Charles, 69 Bailey, Charles Frederick, 218 Baillie, Sir Frank, 110 Bain, John, 66 Ball, Emerson Ewart, 61 Ball, Robert James, 64 Ballantyne, James, 145 Barnard, Sir Frank Stillman, 223 Barnard, Hon. George Henry, 126 Barrow, Hon. Edward Dodsley, 205 Barry, Walter H., 124 Baskerville, William Joseph, 148 Bates, Joseph Lever, 165 Bates, Thomas Nathaniel, 272 Beach, Mahlon F., 49 Beaumont, Ernest Joseph, 56 Bégin, Louis Nazaire, 17 Beith, Hon. Robert, 40 Bellemare, Adelard, 125 Bell, Clarence A. H., 274 Bell, Hon. George Alexander, 230 Bell, John Howatt, 74 Bell, John Percival, 257 Belcourt, Hon. Napoleon Antoine, 61 Bender, Prosper, 31 Bennett, Richard Bedford, 255 Berthiaume, Arthur, 147 Best, John, 43 Bethune, Rev. Charles James Stewart, 76 Birkett, Thomas, 125 Black, Henry, 133 Blair, Lieutenant James K., 273 Blondin, Hon. Pierre Edouard, 212 Bole, David W., 221 Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Laird, 1 Boudreau, L. N. H. Rodolphe, 180 Bowell, Sir Mackenzie, 44 Bowes, James Leslie Llewellyn, 69 Bowie, Lieut.-Colonel Henry William, 251 Bowman, Charles Martin, 275 Boyd, Leslie Hale, 98 Boyer, Major Gustave, 90 Boyer, Louis, 40 Braden, Norman Short, 250 Braithwaite, Edward Ernest, 73 Breadner, Robert Walker, 132 Breithaupt, John C., 228 Breithaupt, Louis J., 43 Brennan, John Charles, 131 Briggs, William, 68 Bristow, Michael George, 73 Brock, Lieut.-Colonel Henry, 70 Brock, William Rees, 71 Brodeur, Hon. Louis Philippe, 220 Bronson, Hon. Erskine Henry, 65 Bronson, Henry Franklin, 34 Brossoit, Numa Edouard, 274 Buchanan, William A., 171 Buckles, Daniel, 119 Bulman, William John, 131 Burgoyne, William Bartlett, 186 Burpee, Lawrence Johnston, 39 Bulyea George Hedley Vicars, 143 Butler, Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Page, 282 Butterworth, John George Bissett, 256 Byrne, Daniel J., 129