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Ex-Echevin. 1877-8-9-80-3-4-5.

came back to his adopted city, and took a position of book-keeper with Messrs. Angus Logan & Co., now the Canada Paper Co. In 1870, Mr. Wilson started in business for liimself, with a small capital, and gradually worked up the ladder of business fortune, making it a rule to attend to business, and not to invest in outside spéculation, but put ail accumulated capital into machinery to further the advance of the firm. Mr. Wilson built his paper mill at Lachute in 1880, and lias added to it considerably since. He was elected alderman for the city, in 1880, and returned by acclamation in 1883, representing St. Lawrence Ward. He was also the représentative for the county of Argenteuil, in the Dominion Parliament, from 1887 to 1 891, in the conservative interest. He was life governor of the General Hospital, the Montréal Dispensary, the House of Refuge, Maternity Hospital, viceprésident and governor of the Insane Asylum ; was, for some time, on Board of School Commissioners ; was for two years président of the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society ; was also président of the Fish and Game Protection Club ; member of the Board of Trade ; a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being several times Past Master of the Royal Albert Lodge and a member of Crescent Street Presbyterian Church.

He died on the çth of October 1899, leaving a wife and three sons; N. W. C. Wilson, F. H. Wilson, B. H. Wilson, and two daughters, Ethel F., and Annie L., to mourn his death.

Feu esprit ANACLET GENEREUX.

M. E. A. Généreux, était un homme d'affaires très connu. Il a été deux fois élu échevin par acclamation dans le quartier Centre, et sa carrière à l'Hôtel de ville a été fructueuse.

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