EDOUARD ROY

Ex-Echevin. 1898-9-1900-1.

as city agent of the Alliance Insurance Company, a position he still retains. In the 3^ear 1900, he was brought forward as reform candidate for the City Council in St. Ann's Ward, in opposition to alderman Thomas Kinsella, and was returned at the head of the poil, after a somewhat bitter fight. He was renominated for his old seat in 1902, but was defeated by a strong combination organized to that end. During his two years service at the City Hall, Mr. Tansey showed himself a stanch supporter of the laboring m an, and rendered good service to the city, as a member of the Fire, Police and Market committees.

Ex-alderman Tansey' s name was for m an y years prominent in athletic circles, he being one of the most famous of the home pla3'ers of the Shamrock Lacrosse Club championship team for several years, and was also famous as a snow-shoe runner, being the possessor of many cups and medals. Ex-alderman Tansey was married in 1887, to Alice, daughter of Mr. William Kinneston, of Point St. Charles, and there are survivors of the union, three daughters and two sons : Alice, Bernard, Mabel, William and Flossie.