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and an ex-postmaster of Regina. Has one daughter. Club-Assiniboia (Regina), Wascana Country Club (Regina), Union Club (Victoria). Liberal; favoured Union Government at Ottawa during- war period. Presbyterian. Resides in Victoria, B.C.

 

TUXFORD: Brigadier General George Stuart, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Legion d?Honneur. Canadian Garage, Moose Jaw. Born Penmorfa, Carnarvonshire, Wales, 1870, a son of James George and Harriet Elizabeth Tuxford (both deceased). Married Jemima Thomson and has one son, Lieut. James Archibald Tuxford. Educated Willingboro Grammar School, Northhamptonshire, Eng. Came to Canada, 1888. Farmed at Buffalo Lake, Moose Jaw, 1,700 acres. Was instrumental in securing for Moose Jaw the armouries, the first rural telephones, and the C.P.R. branch north to Outlook. Went to the Klondyke in 1899. Entered the Canadian Militia in 1906. European War 1914-1918 as Lieut.-Col. Commanding 5th Can. Batt. which he organized at Valcartier. Brigadier General Commanding 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade from March 1916 to end of war. Occupied the bridge head on the Rhine: Mentioned In dispatches eight times. C.M.G.; 1916. Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre, 1916. C.B. (Mil.), 1917. D.S.O. and bar, 1918. Made honorary member Canadian and Kiwanis Clubs after return from the war. Anglican. Address, 127 River St., Moose Jaw, ask.

 

Ross: Honourable James H., Senator. Moose Jaw and Montreal. Commissioner in the Yukon. Member of the N.W.T. Legislative Assembly. Speaker of the Territorial Assembly. Came to the West in the early eighties; drove a dog train in the hinterland of Manitoba; settled near Moose Jaw; while a comparatively young man, engaged in ranching in the Qu' Appelle Valley in partnership with William Riddell, Esq. Was the first member of the Assembly from Moose Jaw.

 

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