Charles Thomas Asplund came to Kingston in 1968 to join the Faculty of Law at Queen's University where he worked until 1990. In his personal life he was an active member of the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and wrote poetry that was privately published. Tom Asplund passed away on September 29th, 1990.
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association of Canada
The Catholic Mutual Benefit Association (CMBA) was organized at Niagara Falls, New York, 3 July 1876, with a membership of twenty-five. It was incorporated in the state of New York, 9 June 1879. The Grand Council of CMBA of Canada was organized at Windsor, Ontario, on 10 February 1880. CMBA was established for the purpose of joining fraternally in one grand organization all male Catholics between 18 and 50 able to pass a proper medical examination; to supply life insurance of $1,000.00 or $2,000.00, at actual cost; to give social benefits only give by secret or fraternal organizations outside the Catholic Church, and to offset the work of secret societies. Head office is located in Montreal, Quebec, and its administrative structure consists of Grand Chancellor, elective officers, Grand Spiritual Advisor, Grand Spiritual Chancellor, Legal Advisor, and one representative from each branch.
Thompson, Jones & Co. Golf & Landscape Architects
Stanley Thompson (September 18, 1894 January 4, 1953) was a Canadian golf course architect. He
was born in Toronto. He graduated from Malvern Collegiate Institute, and attended the Ontario Agricultural College (now the University of Guelph) for one year. He served with the Canadian military in Europe during World War I. Upon returning to Canada after the war, he became a full-time golf course architect, going into business himself by 1923. In the 1920s there was a rapid expansion of golf and new courses were needed to accommodate the millions of new players, so Thompson and his peers were kept very busy.
He designed courses from 1912-1952, mostly in Canada, with a philosophy of preserving the natural lay and flow of the land. He got his start with George Cumming, longtime professional at the Toronto Golf Club, who had designed several Canadian courses around the turn of the 20th century.
Thompson's many world-famous courses include the Banff Springs Hotel Golf Course in Banff, Alberta, the Jasper Park Golf Course in Jasper, Alberta, and the Highlands Links in Ingonish, Nova Scotia, all three which are publicly accessible and located in Canadian National Parks. Banff Springs and Jasper Park earned him a worldwide reputation. Three outstanding private clubs designed by Thompson are the Capilano Golf and Country Club in West Vancouver, British Columbia, the Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton, Alberta, and the St. George's Golf and Country Club in Toronto. In 1948, Thompson was a co-founder, with Donald Ross, of the American Society of Golf Course Architects ([1]), and helped to train many top golf course architects, including Robert Trent Jones; Thompson and Jones were partners for several years in the 1930s. Thompson was an excellent player himself, competing with success several times in the Canadian Amateur Championship, and he had four brothers -- Nicol, Frank, Mathew, and Bill -- all of whom became outstanding Canadian players in the 1920s.
The Stanley Thompson Society provides a list of 178 courses which Thompson laid out, had constructed, or remodeled through one of the companies that he worked for or managed in the years 1912-1953. Geographically, the courses are located in:[1]
Canada (144 courses)
USA (26 courses)
Brazil (4 courses)
Colombia (2 courses)
Jamaica (2 courses)
Thompson was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1980. Golf historian James A. Barclay wrote a biography of Thompson entitled The Toronto Terror.
During the years 1936, 1937 and 1938 Little Long Lac Gold Mines allocated funds for the beginning of surface clearing and equipment for a golf course. Through the personnel of the local mines the services of Stanley Thompson of Hamilton were obtained to design the course. The spring of 1938 saw 110 men, teams of horses and tractors begin to clear the forest. Some of the ground was muskeg, some high and rolling. In one month they cut, stumped, slashed, filled swamp, trimmed the crests of knolls, laid out fairways, set up tees and set down greens. Play began on the course in June with 150 members. The first dance was held in a Geraldton restaurant because there was no clubhouse.
Janet Braide nee Harbron, was born in Toronto in 1924. She attended Lawrence Park Collegiate followed by attending Trinity College, University of Toronto where she graduated with a B.A. in Geography in 1948. In 1949 she married David Braide, with whom she had three children, Robert, Martha and Mary Jane.
While living in Ontario Janet Braide developed an interest in the decorative arts, and upon her moving to Montreal in 1965, sh returned to school to study under Russell Harper in one of the first courses given in Canada on the history of Canadian Art. Braide enrolled in a number of art history courses at Concordia University and eventually received her M.F.A. in Art History from that institution.
Based on work for her thesis, which was on the artist William Brymer, Braide curated an extensive travelling exhibition as a guest curator for the Agnes Etherington Gallery at Queen's University. She also curated a number of other shows on Canadian artists such as Anne Savage and Prudence Heward. In addition to guest curating Braide wrote and lectured extensively. As a lecturer and cataloguer, Mrs. Braide was associated with the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Macdonald-Stewart Foundation and the Musée du Quebec in Quebec City. As an art historian, she wrote for The Canadian Collector, The Journal of Canadian Art History and was an art critic for the Montreal Star from 1967-1971.
Braide passed away February 26, 1987 of pancreatic cancer.
Thomas Macfarlane was a mining engineer, geologist, chemist, and civil servant; b. 5 March 1834 in Pollokshaws (Glasgow), Scotland, son of Thomas Macfarlane, a warping master, and Catherine Macalpine; m. there 20 Sept. 1858 Margaret Skelly, and they had six daughters and three sons; d. 10 June 1907 in Ottawa.
Thomas Macfarlane left school at the age of 11 to enter a lawyers office in Pollokshaws. His real interest, however, lay in the field of chemistry, which he studied at home and through lectures at the Andersonian Institution in nearby Glasgow. In 1854, after working at McClintocks Chemical Works in Glasgow for three or four years, he took up a position as chemist in the Modum Cobalt Works at Drammen, Norway. Following studies at the renowned Royal Saxon Mining School in Freiberg (Germany) in 185657, he returned to Modum as manager; in 1859 he moved to a similar position in the Aamdal Copper Mines in the Telemark district of Norway.
Macfarlane went to Lower Canada in 1860 and was first employed at a smelting works in Longueuil; the following year he became manager of the recently opened Acton Copper Mine in the Eastern Townships. Within a few years he began to participate fully in the geological and chemical communities and to establish contact with important figures in the scientific and commercial worlds, particularly professor Thomas Sterry Hunt* and industrialist Joseph Wharton. Partly as a result of such contacts, he was commissioned in 1865 by the Geological Survey of Canada to examine the minerals of the Lake Superior shore between Sault Ste Marie and Michipicoten Island in Upper Canada, to study the geology and mineralogy of Hastings County, and to investigate the copper mines of Michigans Keweenaw peninsula.
Three years later Macfarlane undertook a series of explorations on behalf of the Montreal Mining Company. They resulted, in July 1868, in his discovery of Canadas first major (and most improbably situated) silver deposit, on a tiny rock in Lake Superior, which he named Silver Islet. He assayed ore for the mines new, American owners (the Silver Mining Company of Silver Islet), used his European contacts to recruit Norwegian miners, and managed the companys smelting and refining operations at Wyandotte, Mich., at different times in the 1870s. These connections with the mine were sporadic, however, and were interspersed with other ventures.
Following the suspension of work at the Acton mine in the mid 1860s, Macfarlane had supervised other copper mining and smelting operations in Quebec, at Lennoxville (Albert Mine, 186668) and Capelton (Canadian Copper Pyrites and Chemical Company, 187375). Subsequently he served as a mining consultant in Nova Scotia and South America for Joseph Wharton and the Bethlehem Steel Company (187576), examined mines in Nevada, Utah, and North Carolina (187879), and worked as a metallurgist for smelters in Leadville, Colo (1880). In 1881 he returned to his original profession of chemist, with a Montreal paint firm, A. Ramsay and Son, of which he was part owner. Five years later he secured a federal position, chief analyst for the departments of Inland Revenue and Customs in Ottawa, which he would hold until a few months before his death. In this capacity he was particularly concerned with the role of chemical analysis in detecting adulterated food.
Macfarlanes interest in geological and mining matters had extended into the political sphere in 187475 when he lobbied for the creation of provincial geological bureaus in Ontario and Quebec, partly in the hope of gaining settled employment but also because he saw that the needs of the mining industry were not being totally met by the Geological Survey of Canada. In 1884, before a select committee of parliament on the Geological Survey, he gave testimony that was highly critical of the surveys work. He had long deplored what he saw as its lack of practicality under director Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn; he had ambitions to become director himself, or at least to see T. S. Hunt promoted to the position. As a result of the committees study, Selwyn remained director and Macfarlanes ambitions went unsatisfied, but a mining section was added to the survey.
Although no longer directly engaged in the mining business, in the early 1890s Macfarlane took particular notice of the emerging copper and nickel industry in the Sudbury basin [see Samuel J. Ritchie], hoping to interest his old associate Joseph Wharton in the commercial application of his patented process for extracting nickel from its ores. During these same years his continuing professional involvement led him to advocate that the International Geological Congress (of which he was a Canadian vice-president) be encouraged by the government to hold its meetings for 1895 in Canada.
Widely travelled and fluent in several languages, Macfarlane exhibited an interest in national and international affairs that extended far beyond his professional concerns. A staunch Conservative and a devoted (but not uncritical) member of the Church of England, he had taken up the cause of independent Protestant schools in Lower Canada within a few years of arriving there, and he pursued it vigorously for the next decade. Yet he also sought to reconcile science and religion, and favoured an open-minded approach to both. He was an indefatigable spokesman for the Imperial Federation League in Canada, founded in Montreal in 1885; he later opposed its absorption into the British Empire League, supporting instead the creation of a United Empire Trade League. A founding member in 1882 and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he was president of its mathematical, physical, and chemical sciences section in 188687. His presidential address dealt with a matter which, all through my life, has occupied my attention and studies, namely, the utilization of waste in several branches of chemical manufacture and in ordinary civilized life. In this respect, he may be considered one of Canadas first scientific conservationists.
A man of broad interests (including literature and music) and strong convictions in matters scientific, political, and religious, Macfarlane epitomizes the Scottish immigrant who makes good in Canada. His early career illustrates the opportunities, uncertainties, and international character of the mining business in the 19th century; his later life as a public servant encapsulates the growing influence of scientific research at a time when concerns about public health were forging new links between science and government.
Ebenezar Washburn, a merchant, politician, justice of the peace, and office holder, was born 8 April 1756 in Attleborough (Attleboro), Mass. The son of Simeon Washburn and Jemimah Gary, he married Sarah De Forest, and they had nine children. Upon the death of Sarah, he married Hannah McBride, a widow, in York (Toronto) on 24 Jan. 1803. Washburn died 12 Nov. 1826 in Hallowell (Picton), Upper Canada.