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1912. Was again successful in 1917. Married Gertrude Boudreau, of Petit
Rocher, N.B., 1901. Has two sons and three daughters. Liberal, Roman Catholic.
Address, Angus Street, Regina,
Sask.
MARTIN: The Honourable W. M. Justice, ex-Premier of Saskatchewan.
(Court of Appeal.) Was born at Norwich,
Ont., Aug. 22nd, 1876, a
son of the Reverend Wm. and Mrs. Martin. Attended the Clinton (Ont.)
Collegiate, and is a graduate of Toronto University, from which he holds an
honour degree in classics, 1898; Ontario Normal College, Hamilton (Ont.);
Osgoode Hall (Scholarship), (1892-3); was classical master, Harriston (Ont.)
High School, 1889,1901. Was urged to accept the nomination for House of Commons
in the Western Assiniboia, Con., 1906. Declined. Was
elected for Regina 1908 and again
in 1911. Resigned in 1917 to accept the Premiership of Saskatchewan at the time
of the resignation of ex-Premier Walter Scott. He was re-elected in June of
that year and held office until 1922, when he resigned and was appointed to the
Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan.
He married, in 1906, Violette Florence Thompson, daughter of Walter Thompson,
Esq., of Mitchell, Ont., and has one son. He is a member of the Masonic Order
of A.F. and A.M. A Liberal. Presbyterian.
Address, 2042 Cornwall St., Regina.
WETMORE: The late Honourable Edward Ludlow, ex-Chief Justice of the
Court of King's Bench of Saskatchewan.
Born May 24th, 1841, at Fredericton,
N.R, his father being C. P. W. Wetmore, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, and
his mother a daughter of Colonel Richard Ketchum of Woodstock,
N.B. U. E. Loyalist. Was educated in grammar schools at Fredericton
and Gagetown. He graduated with honours in arts from the University
of New Brunswick, in 1889. Was
called to the bar in New Brunswick
in 1864. Made a Q.C. in 1881 and rapidly became one of the
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