LORENCE V. KERR.
 




	Lorence V. Kerr, a prosperous realtor and business man of Regina,
was born in Stratford, Ontario, in 1885, of Scotch parentage. His father
and mother, D. and Elizabeth (Holmes) Kerr, were married in Ontario,
whither they had come as young' people from their native Scotland, and
there spent the most of their lives. The father was a farmer by occupa-
tion. He was a wide reader and well informed man, who took an especial
interest in public affairs, with Liberal tendencies in politics. The family
was affiliated with the Presbyterian church. Lorence V. of this review
is the youngest of six children, of whom four are living.
	Lorence V. Kerr was educated in the Woodstock Collegiate Institute
and spent a year doing university work. After teaching for some six
months he came to Regina, where he studied in the Normal School during
1903. The following year he entered the real estate business in Regina,
in which he has since been chiefly interested. He haS built a number of
residences in this city, Calgary and Medicine Hat and in 1910 erected the
five-story office building in Regina known as the Kerr block. In all of
his operations he has been most successful financially.  When he first
began his undertakings in this line nearly twenty years ago Mr. Kerr
had a deep seated faith in the future of the Canadian west, which enabled
him to look ahead and foresee the needs of the day after tomorrow, not
only in this city, but in the other communities of Saskatchewan and Al-
berta.  Consequently he has always built for the future and has ever
been prepared to meet the demands of a rapidly growing population for
housing quarters and office space.
	City property has not been Mr. Kerr's sole interest, however.  He is
keenly interested in the agricultural development of this region and owns
some fine farms in the province. A lover of fine horses, he keeps a string
of harness and saddle horses that he has been showing for several years
past. This not only provides him with a most fascinating recreation but
is a contribution to the growing movement throughout the agricultural
regions of the west to introduce better stock of all kinds and foster an
interest in the best strains of horses, cattle and other farm animals.
In 1911 Mr. Kerr was united in marriage to Miss Edith Muriel Buck,
a native of Nova Scotia, who was educated in her native province and
in British Columbia.  They have become the parents of two children:
Muriel, a little girl of twelve; and a son, Lorence Victor Kerr, Jr. Miss
Muriel has displayed remarkable musical ability at a very early age.
She is now studying in New York city, after having begun her musical
education in Toronto and Chicago, and does concert work that has made
her name a familiar one in musical circles in the United States and
Canada. The critics and teachers are prophesying a brilliant career for
her and she is indeed fortunate in both her talent and her opportunities
for study under the best teachers the world affords.
	The Kerrs are affiliated with the Knox Presbyterian church. Mr.
Kerr is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine,
and likewise belongs to the Knights of Pythias. His clubs are the Assini-
boia and Wascana Country Clubs of Regina and the Minneapolis Athletic
Club. A self-made man in the best sense of the word, Mr. Kerr has
attained a notable business success at an unusually youthful age, in a
city where he came a stranger, with neither capital nor prestige to aid
him. His career is illustrative of the opportunities open in the Canadian
west to the young man of ambition, with the courage to dare and the
will to do.



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