The Association of Women Electors (AWE) was founded in 1937, and it played a large role in municipal affairs until the end of its existence in 1986. It was a non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-profit organization.
Anthony Barclay, British Consul in New York, was the son of Thomas Barclay. He attended King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and participated in the second boundary commission.
George Herbert Barr was a lawyer based in Regina, Saskatchewan. He was born in 1878 and died in 1960.
Bermuda. Registrar of the High Court
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Journalist, Politician, senator, promoted Canadian Unity.
Henri Bourassa, journalist and politican, was born at Montreal, Quebec in 1868. He was educated by tutors, and became a journalist. He was a contributor to "Le Nationaliste," a journal published in Montreal; and in 1896 he was elected to represent Labelle as an independant Liberal in the House of Commons. He became a pronounced "Nationalist; and in 1910 he founded "Le Devoir," a Nationalist newspaper in Montreal, of which he became the editor-in-chief, continuing as editor until he broke with many of the Nationalists, and resigned from the paper in 1932. In 1907 he resigned from the House of Commons so he could sit in the Quebec Legislative Assembly. He remained in the Assembly from 1908 to 1912. He sat once again in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1935, when he was defeated in his old constituency, Labelle. Bourassa was an outstanding political figure, and a first-rate orator. He also published many pamphlets on political questions, in both French and English. Henri Bourassa died at Outremont, Quebec, on August 30, 1952.
The Bowerman family emigrated from England to the United States and Canada and were a prominent family in Prince Edward County. Merton Yarwood Williams, a descendant of the Bowerman family, was a Queen's graduate (1909) and professor of Geology at the University of British Columbia.
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