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and secretary of the fist Grain Growers' Association started in the Province, Indian Head being the home of the movement. In 1906 he was appointed chairman of the Royal Grain Commission for a thorough investigation of the grain trade in Canada, United States and the British Isles, covering a period of over a year. A. considerable portion of the present Grain Act was the result of the report brought down by that board. Mr. Miller has been district director of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers for several years, until he was nominated in 1921, contesting the Qu' Appelle constituency against E. E. Perley, Esq.; Wolseley (Conservative) son of late Senator Perley. Mr. Miller was elected by over 5,000 majority. He has served in both the Public and High School Boards; has sat in the City Council for four years and was elected Mayor in 1914, after which he resigned. Methodist. Progressive. Address, Indian Head.

 

 

MURRAY: Alexander Miller, barrister and solicitor, Hanley, Sask. Born at Edinburgh, Scotland, a son of .John and Margaret Frances (Miller) Murray. Married Nita Davidson Belknap, 1917. Mr. Murray was educated at Edinburgh University; articled in law to W. and W. Saunders, solicitors, of Edinburgh; became a solicitor in 1907. Practised in Edinburgh for four - years; came to Canada, May, 1911, and worked in Winnipeg with the firm of J. A. M. Aikens, afterwards Sir James Aikens, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba; was also with Fullerton, Coyne & Foley, also in the office of the solicitor for the G.T.R.; worked in the office of Davidson & Thornloe, Biggar. Enlisted in 1915, 5th Overseas- University Company, Montreal. Drafted to P.P.C.L.I.'s; France, June 5th, 1916; Ypres front; Hooge and Sanctuary Wood, Somme, Vimy Ridge. Invalided to England, Canada ; discharged July, 1918. Called to the bar of Saskatchewan, 1918; opened practice at Hanley. Solicitor for the Royal Bank of Canada, Sterling Bank, town of Hanley, rural municipality

 

 

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