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McINNIS: Harry Alexander, Mayor of Langham (1923). Born at Owen
Sound, Ont., 1885, a son of Robert and Sabina (Cram)
McInnis. Married Jane Walker, Watson. Educated at Owen
Sound Public and Morden
High Schools. Scotch ancestry.
Grand
father came to Canada
from Glasgow, Scotland,
and settled in Grey county. Family moved to Morden,
Man., 1895. Mayor McInnis was with the
Morden Pharmacy for some years. Came to Langham and engaged in the hardware business.
Homesteaded near Langham. 1910, was appointed secretary-treasurer rural municipality
of Park, 375. Elected Mayor in
1922-23. Member of the School Board for seven years. Member of the Board of
Trade. Member of the Rural Municipalities Assn. Past Master of Ispheming Lodge,
A.F. and A.M.; Royal Arch, Saskatoon.
Baptist. Liberal. Address, Langham, Sask.
MacDONALD: John Ross, B.A., LL.B., barrister (MacDonald & Morris),
Mayor of Wilkie, 1923. Born in Grey county, near Owen
Sound, 1887, son of Gilbert and Elizabeth (Young)
MacDonald. Married Emily S. Wilson, 1916, and has one daughter. Educated at the
Owen Sound Schools, Saskatchewan University.
Grandfather, Hugh MacDonald, came to Grey county from the Isle of Islay. Mr.
MacDonald's father came west to Guernsey, Sask.,
and, homesteaded; now retired; lives at New Westminster.
Mayor MacDonald taught school in Saskatchewan
between college years, 1910-11-12; articled McCraney, MacKenzie, Hutchenson
& Rose, of Saskatoon. He was
called to the bar, June, 1916. Came to Wilkie, where he was joined by Mr.
Morris, in 1922. Solicitors for the Union Bank of Canada,
village of Cutknife,
municipalities of Cutknife, Reford; solicitors for the Canada Bonded Attorney.
Member of the Council since 1917; Mayor, Dec., 1921-22-23. President of the
Liberal Club. Member of the University Senate (Battleford District 1920-23,
Member of the Masonic Order. Baptist. Liberal.
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