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WILLIAM EUARD.

Mr. William Euard, of the Board of City Assessors, is widely known in Montréal. He was born on McGill street, in the West Ward, in 1844. His parents were from the north of Ireland, and dnring their life time were prominently connected with the methodist church in Montréal. His father Mr. John Euard was in saddlery business, for twenty-five years, at the corner of McGill and Recollets streeet.

Mr. Euard's éducation was received in the McGill Normal school. At the âge of fourteen, he became an apprentice in the wholesale hardware house of Messrs Benn^^, MacPherson and Coy, and afterwards took charge of the city sales store of Messrs Rodden & Coy. When Mr. Rodden retired, some few years later, the business was continued b}^ Mr. Euard and ex-ald. Clendinneng under the firm name of Clendinneng and Euard.

Subsequently Mr. Euard retired and established the firm of Euard and Macdonald, stove and hardware merchants, and operated an extensive factory in Longueuil.

Mr. Euard is an ex-member of the Board of Trade, and a member of mau}^ fraternal societies in most of which he has filled the principal positions. He was one of the Governor of the Protestant Hospital for the insane, and took a deep interest in his early history, he was also member of its board of management.

Mr. Euard was appointed to the Board of Assessors in 1898, and has occupied a prominent place on the Board ever since.