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family that is represented in India, U.S.A.. and the Colonies. Mr. Bates came to Canada, 1910; worked with the Traders Bank at Saskatoon; articled in law to Murray and Munro; graduated from Saskatchewan University, 1919; called to the bar same year; opened present practice in Lanigan, 1920. Solicitor for town of Lanigan, Union. Bank of Canada, Great West Life Assurance Co. Secretary Lanigan Agricultural Society. Member of the A.F. and A.M. An Anglican. Conservative. Recreations, tennis and golf. Address, Lanigan, Sask.

 

BILL: Edward Manning, B.A., LL.B., K.C., barrister and solicitor. Born at Billtown, King's County, N.S., 1869, a son of Wm. C. and Arabella (Dodge) Bill. Married Maude Haley, daughter of Dr. Allen Haley, M.P. for Hants Co., and has one son and two daughters. Educated Horton Academy, Acadia College, Dalhousie University. United Empire Loyalist stock. Father, W. C. Bill, was the Federal member for King's county for many years. Mr. Bill graduated in arts from. Acadia, 1889; in law from Dalhousie, 1892. Was articled to Drysdale, Newcombe & McInnis, of Halifax. Called to the Nova Scotia bar, 1892; practised at Shelburne, N.C., until 1909. Appointed a King's Counsel in 1907. Came west to Saskatoon and formed partner. ship under the firm name of Brown & Bill, afterwards Morton, Bill & Brown. Came to Semans in 1921. Member of the Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan Bar Association. Solicitor for the Bank of Montreal, Canadian Bonded Attorney. He is a Mason. Baptist, and a Conservative. Recreations, curling and hunting. Address, Semans, Sask.

 

BAKER: William George, M.L.A., conductor, Canadian Pacific Railway. Born Owen Sound, Ont., Jan. 16th, 1885, a son of Wesley and Mary (McTavish) Baker. Married Pearl Green, 1912, and has three sons. Mr. Baker comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry; both grand-

 

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