JOHN HENDERSON

Citizens and strangers who visit Mount Royal Park are frequently impressed with the care that is taken of it, in spite of meagre appropriations. This work of supervision is carried on under Mr. JoJm Henderson, the superintendent. Mr. Henderson was boni at St. Laurent, October, i8th, 1858, and is the son of James Henderson and Elizabeth Verte. His father was a farmer and was boni in Scotland. His

ei2 HISTOIRE DE MONTREAL

motlier was an Englisli lady. When quite 3^oung, the subject of this sketch came to Canada with his parents, and was educated at the old British and Canadian school, Cote street. He followed his fathers' profession, but gave up farming, in 1889, to engage in the produce commission business, in Montréal. He carried on this business until 1900, when he was appointed superintendent of Mont Royal Park, in succession to Major William McGibbon. Mr. Henderson is a member of the I. O. F.

In June 1886, he married Miss Jessie B. Drysdale and has one son, James Henry.