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ARNETT: J.H., sales manager, T. L. Arnett Co., Regina.
Born Kerwood, Ont., 1879, son of Thomas Lewis and Angelina (Hughes)
Arnett. Married Belvedere Todd, 1904,
and has two sons and three daughters. Comes of English stock. Father came to Canada
in the sixties and settled at Petrolia, Lambton county (mercantile business).
Came west with the Wolseley Expedition in 1871; founded a business in Winnipeg
in 1879. Mr. Arnett taught school for several years and was principal of Minnedosa
School for some time; entered the
lumber business with his brother, at Souris, Man.
This business developed into the present business, which has grown to such
dimensions that branches have been established at Winnipeg,
Regina, Saskatoon,
Calgary and Edmonton.
Mr. Arnett gives much time to music, writing and educational work; has
published articles in university magazines, Toronto Saturday Night. His verses
have been featured in the Saskatchewan
press. He has written many songs, poems, etc. His songs, "Our Own
Saskatchewan," and "Canadians, Arise!" have been used by the
Dept. of Education of Manitoba.
He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, A.F. and A.M.; D.C.T. Presbyterian.
Independent. Address, Regina.
LAMB: John James, secretary-treasurer rural municipality
of Key West, R.M. No. 70. Born at Preston,
Lancashire, England,
Dec. 20th, 1870, son of
John and Anne (Simpson) Lamb. Married Elizabeth Walker, 1904. Educated at the Preston
schools. Apprenticed in early life to the contracting business (seven years),
W. A. Peters & Sons, builders of the Blackpool
Tower. Came to Canada,
1903, to Port Dover, Ont., where he farmed. Came west to Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan,
1906, homesteaded in rural municipality
of Key West No. 70, proved and
preempted and still farms the half section. Councillor, 1909; appointed
sec.-treas., R.M. 70; a position he still occupies. At the convention of 1913,
at Prince. Albert, was appointed one of a com-
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