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CHARLES F. SMITH

Ex-Alderman Charles F. Smith, sole proprietor of the hrm of James McCready & Co., wholesale boot and shoe manufacturers, is a native of England, where he was born in 1840. He received his éducation there and also his early business training, and came to Canada in 1861, and, in 1866, settling in Montréal. After eleven years expérience in the boot and shoe manufacturing business, he joined the iinn of James McCready & Co, and after filling the highest positions in the service of the firm, he first became a partner, and eventually sole proprietor of the business. Mr. Smith's career has been one of unqualified success, and the business

DBNNIS TANSEY, Jr.

Ex-Alderman. 1900-1.

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commiiîiity sliowed their appréciation of his sterling qualities by electing liim to high office in the Montréal Board of Trade.

x\ldernian Smith is of a very charitable disposition and has been intimately connected with charitable work in the city, particularly with that of the several organizations connected with the congrégations of St. Patrick's Church, and the Church of the Gesu. He allowed himself to be placed in nomination for aldermanic honours in 1900, on an old agreement between himself, Alderman Ames and the late Alderman Hart, which agreement was to the effect that if any one of the three would agrée to enter the municipal arena, the other two would. Mr. Smith was nominated in opposition to Alderman A. A. Stevenson, for seat No. i, West Ward, and was returned at the head of the poil by a large majority.

Mr. Smith sat in the council until the end of his terni in 1902, positively declining re-election. In the council, he ver 3^ seldom spoke, but when he did, his words bore great weight. He was an active member of the Finance Committee and paid spécial attention to the' printing and assessors' departments.

DENNIS T ANSE Y, Jr.

Ex-Alderman Dennis Tansey, junior, was born in Montréal, in the year 1864 ; his father being Air. Bernard Tansey, a ver}^ prominent and popular member of the Irish Community of the city. He was educated at the Archambault school, popularl}^ known as the Catholic Commercial Acadeni}^, and at the âge of eighteen entered the service of the Cit}^ and District Savings Bank, leaving that service to take a position in the Montréal Post- Office in 1882. In 1897, after iifteen years service he was superannuated and entered upon business, on his own account,

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