JAMES WALTER REID.
 

	James Walter Reid has been the King's Printer for Saskatchewan
for the past ten years and is the first occupant of this office to be com-
pletely separated from the other government departments, with full re-
sponsibility for his own work.  He was born in 1870, in London, Eng
land, and brought to Canada by his foster parents when he was seven
years old.  They settled in Winnipeg, where he was educated in the
public schools and qualified for a second-class teacher's certificate.  For
nine years after completing his education he taught in the Manitoba
schools. His first venture in the field of journalism was made in Was-
kada, Manitoba, where he was engaged in the newspaper business for
three years. He came to Saskatchewan in 1908, locating in Melville and
started the first newspaper in that place, the Melville Canadian.  This
paper had a successful career under his editorial guidance for five years
~nd was finally sold that Mr. Reid might be free to take up the duties
of King's Printer in Regina. He was appointed to this position in June
of 1913 and as soon as possible took active charge of his department. As
has already been stated, he is the first King's Printer in the province to
be independent of the other branches of the provincial government and
the head of his own department.
	In 1902 Mr. Reid was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Hawthorne,
daughter of William Hawthorne, a Huron farmer.  Mr. and Mrs. Reid
have two children: Christina M. Reid, a student in her fourth year at
the Collegiate Institute; and Kenneth, who is attending the public schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid are both members of the Westminster Presbyterian
church of this city, in whose activities Mr. Reid takes a leading part as
a member of the board and a Sunday school worker.  While he was a
resident of Melville he was an elder in the Union church there. He is
a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, having been grand lodge representative in the lodge at Mel-
ville, and he is also known as a member of the Canadian Club of Regina.
While he devotes himself quite exclusively to the duties of his office, Mr.
Reid has not lost touch with the journalist's world and in his leisure
hours writes occasional articles for newspaper publication.  He is in-
terested in the upbuilding of Regina and of the entire province and
accordingly endorses many plans relative to the benefit and improvement
of this part of western Canada.



	
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