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of North-eastern Saskatchewan;
linotype, duplex press and all facilities ~ for a daily paper. Mr. Wynn is
president Saskatchewan Press Assn.; director for Saskatchewan Canadian
Newspaper Assn.; member Canadian and Rotary Golf Clubs. Was member
Town Council for six years; Deputy
Mayor two years; member of the Board of Trade. A Mason. Anglican; and in
politics, an independent.
WYLIE: His Honor Judge Edmund Richard, B.A., K.C., Judge of the
Judicial Dist. of Estevan. Born county
of Durham, Ont., Dec. 12th, 1873; a son of John and
Elizabeth Wylie, one of the pioneer lawyers of the West. Married Hannah
Florence Whittam, 1905, and has one daughter. Lindsay Collegiate; Normal
School, Moosomin Wesley
College, Winnipeg;
Manitoba University.
Like so many of the western professional men, his Honour taught school before
or during his college course, and was principal of the Oxbow
School and others in vicinity.
Articled in law to J. T. Brown, K.C., now his Honour Judge Brown. Called to the
Saskatchewan bar, 1903, and
entered into partnership with J. T. Brown, afterwards Brown, Wylie & Mundle,
later Brown, Wylie, Mundle & Proctor, 1911-1914. Appointed District Court
Judge, 1914. Was solicitor for the town of Moosomin,
1907-1914. Chairman Board of Trustees, Moosomin Collegiate, 1911-1914. Member
Executive Patriotic Fund, 1914-1920; Chairman. Estevan Branch Navy League,
19191920. Member Board of Governors, Regina
College; member Board of Directors,
Wesley College.
Member Canadian Club. A Mason. Methodist. Recreations, curling; tennis, golf
and motoring. Address, Court House, Estevan, Sask.
TORNEY: Major Frederick William, barrister. Born at Castlecomer, King's
county, Dublin, Ireland,
a son of Doctor Thomas and Eva (Swan) Torney.
Married Elizabeth Oxley, 1898, and has two sons and two daugh-
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