JAMES HARPER

Ex-alderman James Harper, who represented St. Lawrence Ward, from 1896 to 1898, is a leading commercial man of our city, and his pork packing and curing industries occupy a prominent position among the enterprises that contribute so much to the iudustrial pre-eminence of Montréal. Mr. James Harper was born in 1832, at Stevenson, Ayrshire, Scotland. He came to Canada in 1847, ^^ the âge of fifteen, and remained hère during a few years. He then travelled to New-York, where he completed his apprenticeship in the pork packing and curing industr\^ He returned to the metropolis twenty-seven 3^ears ago, and lias always lived in St. Lawrence Ward since. After having accomplished his term of two years in 1896-97, in the Municipal Council, he retired from public life, to dévote ail his attention to his business.