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months leave to Canada. Assistant C.R.C.E., Mil. Dist. No. 12, Regina, until the end of the war. Discharged, spring of 1919, and resumed profession. Member of the Council of Saskatchewan Architects (eight years; president, two); member of the Dominion Council two years. Member of the Riverside Country Club; Saskatoon Club; Rotary Club; Canadian Club. Member of the Masonic fraternity. Presbyterian. Liberal. Recreations, golf and curling. Address, Saskatoon, Sask.

 

WILSON: Maitland Allan, editor and publisher, Wilkie Press. Born at Shelburne, Ont., 1888, son of John D. and Isabella (Allan) Wilson. Married Bertha E. Hambly, 1920, and has two daughters. Grandfather came from Scotland and settled at Elora, receiving a grant of land from the Government. Father in the

Foundry business at Shelburne, and Dundalk. Mr. Wilson learned the printing trade at Dundalk, with the Herald; worked with newspapers in Hespeler and Rodney; came west in 1910 and was with the Rosetown Eagle. Came to Wilkie, 1910, with the Press. Started the Kerrobert Citizen, Cut Knife Grinder, and was a partner for a year. Joined the C.E.F., 1916, 232nd Battalion (Col. Laurie), and was with the 15th Reserve Band at Bramshott; owing to a disability that precluded his going to France, discharged and returned to Canada, Jan., 1919. Worked with the Dundalk Herald; came to Wilkie, 1920, and purchased the plant of the Press, and has to-day one of the most up-to-date and best equipped offices in the Province. Member of the Saskatchewan Press Association. Secretary of the Fire Brigade. Presbyterian. Independent. Address Wilkie.

 

WILLIAMS: J. K. R., merchant, Regina ~ general manager- of R. H. Williams & Sons. Born in Barrie, Ont., in 1897, son of R. H. and Mary Susan (Reid) Williams. Married Alexandra Harris McRae, and has two sons

 

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