‘Mc’ surnamesCity of Toronto residents A History of Toronto and County of York

TIMOTHY McCARTHY, 194 Sherbourne Street, was born near Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, in 1818, arrived in Quebec in May, 1841. After reaching Kingston he went to Rochester, and returned to Toronto in May, 1842. He was teacher of the Separate School, Richmond Street East, about three years, and afterwards kept a grocery store on King Street East. In 1851, on a strong letter of recommendation from the Hon. Robert Baldwin, he was appointed by the Hon. Francis Hincks manifest clerk in the long room, about 10th April, the duties of which he performed about six weeks. He was then transferred to one of the wharves and appointed landing waiter, receiving his commission from Lord Elgin. On his first entrance into the Custom House there was only Collector, Mundell. He was transferred to the port of Belleville in 1857. Surveyor Scott and Chief Clerk Cameron, and two landing waiters then comprised his staff. He is at present officiating under his fourth collector, the Hon. James Patton, and will have been thirty-four years in that department on 10th April next, and the oldest Custom House official in the port. (Vol. II, p. 93)

ALEXANDER McCLELLAND, retired, is a native of Ireland, having been born in County Tyrone in 1819. He came to Canada in 1844 and landed in Toronto, where he first engaged in school teaching, following that occupation for twenty-two years; after which he held the office of receiver for the Street Railway Company, for several years. He next kept a grocery, flour and feed store, etc., at 253 King Street East, from which he retired in 1873. He held the office of city assessor for three years. In 1844 he married Miss E. McClelland, by whom he has a family of two sons and two daughters. The Rev. Thomas J. McClelland is pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church at Brooklyn, N.Y.; the Rev. Alexander McClelland is located at Duncanville, Ont. (Vol. II, p. 93)

ANDREW TAYLOR McCORD, jun?r, was born in Toronto on the 14th April, 1848. His father, Andrew Taylor McCord, was born in Cookstown, in the North of Ireland, on the 12th July, 1808. He emigrated to Canada with his father, Andrew McCord, who died in Toronto in the year 1851. Three of Mr. McCord?s sisters are still alive, viz.: Mrs. Peter Freeland, Miss McCord and Mrs. John Rains. He held the office of city treasurer for forty-five years, having been appointed in 1834. He was four years President of the Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, which society chiefly owes its existence to Mr. McCord, who was one of the originators. He was for thirty years one of the Vice-Presidents of the Tract and Bible Society, and also acted as its Secretary for many years. He was also connected with the Home for Incurables, House of Industry, Newsboys? Home, as a director or otherwise. Mr. McCord organized the first Baptist church here; it was situated on March Street, now Lombard Street. He was a Justice of the Peace, appointed to that position by the Mowat administration; in politics he was a Reformer. For nearly thirty years he lived at the north-east corner of Church and Gloucester Streets, when he died September 5th, 1881, leaving a wife, six daughters and one son. Mrs. McCord, the wife of our subject, is the daughter of the late Andrew Taylor, of Dublin, Ireland, a large ship-owner. He ran the first line of steamers between Dublin and Glasgow. She was born on the 17th of March, 1814, and resides with her son, Mr. A.T. McCord, jun?r, at the old family residence on the corner of Gloucester and Church Streets. (Vol. II, p. 93)

S. EDWARD McCULLY, M.D., Ontario Pulmonary Institute. The proprietor of this institute was born in the County of Kent, Province of Ontario, in the year 1841. Dr. McCully received his education in Toronto, and his degree of M.D. from the University of Victoria College in the year 1862. His grandfather went to Nova Scotia from Scotland in the year 1776, and was a Baptist minister well-known from one end of that Province to the other, being one of the founders of the now large Baptist body there. He raised a large family, some of whom became farmers, some lawyers and one a Liverpool lumber merchant. Among the more notable of the family was the Honourable Jonathan McCully, who for a quarter of a century served his country in the positions, at various times, of Attorney-General of Nova Scotia and Solicitor-General (he was appointed Puisne Judge before Confederation, but at the call of his party resigned his seat and again entered active political life); also as one of the Confederation Delegates from that Province to Quebec, and lastly to London, England. When Confederation became a fait accompli, he was called to the Senate of Canada, and lastly was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of his Province, holding that position till his death. He was taken ill while sitting on the Bench, and died shortly afterwards in harness. Dr. McCully?s mother was born in Halifax, and had the honour, with her father, to be the first to board the Shannon as she swung up to the dock at Halifax with the Chesapeake in tow, and the old lady can yet give a vivid account of the scene of blood and carnage that met her eye on that memorable occasion. In the year 1834, the doctor?s father and mother started from Cumberland, N.S., for Canada, and after an eventful voyage, first to Boston and then to Buffalo, they arrived in the County of Kent, where they hewed out a home from the then almost unbroken forest, and where the old gentleman died, a few years ago, at the ripe age of seventy-two. Many were the vicissitudes through which they passed during the earlier stages of their pioneer life; among others an attack by Indians set on by the U.E. Loyalists, when the mother of the subject of this review upset a beehive just in front of the house, causing the dusky warriors, amid howls of pain and terror, to beat a hasty retreat before the foe. Dr. McCully is now practising as a specialist, and is treating chronic, skin, blood and nervous diseases and deformities, as well as throat and lung. He has a large and comfortable place on the corner of Jarvis and Gerrard Streets, in this city, and is using electricity in all its forms known to the medical profession. He takes his patients into the house, now known all over Canada as the Ontario Pulmonary and Electric Institute, and his is the only sanatorium of the kind in Canada. He is of the advanced school of thought, using inhalations in lung diseases and removing cancers, not only by the knife but also by the plaster and solution by electricity. He has also discovered recently an absolute cure for rupture without using knife or truss. (Vol. II, p. 94)

JOHN McGANN, hotel-keeper, Toronto, was born in Little York in 1829. His father, Patrick McGann, was born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1782, and in 1816 came to Canada and located at Kingston, where he married Betsy Wair, by whom he had the following children: Charles, dead; Thomas, dead; Edward, a farmer in the Township of Scarboro?; and one daughter who died in infancy. These children were all born in Little York, whither the parents removed from Kingston in 1820. Patrick McGann engaged in business on King Street, near Sherbourne, until 1832, when both he and his wife died of cholera. After his father?s death John McGann was kept at school by his aunt and uncle. In 1849 he commenced sailing on the lakes between Kingston and Chicago, and continued at that until 1869 when he engaged in business as ship-broker. He afterwards opened an hotel and still carries on that business. In politics Mr. McGann is a strong Conservative. (Vol. II, p. 95)

THOMAS McGAW (of McGaw & Winnett), proprietors of the Queen?s Hotel, was born in the Township of Whitby, County of Ontario, in 1833. His father, Thomas McGaw, was born in Cairn Regan, Wigtonshire, Scotland, in 1792, and came to Canada in 1832; he settled in the Township of Whitby where he resided until his death in 1878; his wife is living in Toronto, and is ninety years of age. He was a Baldwin Reformer; during the Rebellion he was arrested but afterwards released. The subject of this sketch lived on his father?s farm until the year 1850, when he went into a country store, subsequently in 1859 to the United States, where he remained until the Trent affair, when he returned to Toronto and joined the Victoria Rifles. In 1862 he came to Toronto and engaged in business at the Queen?s Hotel with the late Captain Dick, owner of the building. It was at first intended for four private residences; it afterwards became Knox College, then Sword?s Hotel, and lastly the Queen?s. Mr. McGaw married a daughter of Captain William Gordon, who ran the old lake steamer Admiral, and who died of cholera in 1847. (Vol. II, p. 96)

JOHN McINTOSH, lumber merchant, was born January 30th, 1826, in Little York. His father was John, son of John McIntosh, who was born in Scotland in 1754, and came to Canada in 1801 with his wife, whose maiden name was Ann Ferguson, and his children, Nancy, John, Jane, Robert and Jean, all of whom are now dead. His grandfather remained at Quebec for two years, and in 1803 located at Little York, where, on the corner of Duke and Princess Streets, he worked his trade, that of a blacksmith. He purchased from the Hon. John McGill a lot on the corner of Yonge and Queen Streets, containing one and a-half acres, for which he paid $400; on this he built a house. After coming to Canada there were born to him six children, viz.: Isabel, Eliza, William, Charles, Jean and David; of these the only living ones are Isabel, now Mrs. Elliott, living at Highland Creek; and David, living in Fulton, Calvin County, Missouri. He died January 29th, 1830; his wife died in 1814. John McIntosh, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Scotland in 1796. After coming to Toronto with his parents he went to school to the late Bishop Strachan. He and his brothers married and sailed the lakes for many years. A short time after the war of 1812, he and his brother James owned a vessel called the Brothers; Robert and William sailed with them until they got a vessel of their own. In the fall of 1833, Charles built the steamer Cobourg, which he ran between Toronto and Montreal; he died of cholera in 1834, and was followed by his brother James one week later. John served in the war of 1812, and was present at the capitulation of Detroit. He was also in the militia at the time York was taken by the Americans. He was a Baldwin Reformer, and was chairman of the Reform Committee at the time when William Lyon Mackenzie went to England to lay the grievances of the people before the British Government. For eight years he represented the North Riding of York in the Parliament of Upper Canada. He was twice married. In 1823 he was married to Catharine, daughter of Rev. Alexander Stewart, the first Baptist minister in Little York; she was born in Scotland, and came to Canada in 1813 with her father; she died February 10th, 1832. By her Mr. McIntosh had five children, viz.: Catharine, John, Ann Jane, James, and another, who died in infancy. In the year 1833 he married a widow, named Ellen Ferguson, by whom he had seven children: Isabel, Robert, Ellen, Eliza, James, Charles and Margaret. In religion Mr. McIntosh was a Protestant. His first wife was a Baptist. He died in Toronto on July 3rd, 1853. John McIntosh, whose father and grandfather bore the same name, was born in Little York, January 30th, 1826. He was educated at the primary schools and at Upper Canada College. In 1847 he began a three years apprenticeship with Isaac White as builder. In 1849 he entered mercantile life by opening an agricultural implement and hardware store on Yonge Street, in partnership with Samuel Walton. He continued this for five years, when he entered Patterson?s hardware store. In 1869 he engaged in the lumber business, and has been at that ever since. On August 18th, 1853, he married Isabella Walton, youngest daughter of Matthew Walton, by whom he has five children living, viz.: Anna, Isabella, Adele, Alice and Lillian; he lost six children by death. In religion Mr. McIntosh is a Baptist, and in politics a Reformer. (Vol. II, p. 96)

ARCHIBALD McKINLAY, 94 Gloucester Street, was born in the State of South Carolina, in 1817, and is the son of John and Esther (Jackson) McKinlay. In early life he had the advantage of a good education and was the youngest son in a family of five children, none of whom except himself came to Canada. He arrived here in 1856 and joined Mr. O.T. Bevan in a general manufacturing business for four years, subsequently entering largely into the lumber trade. In 1878 Mr. McKinlay purchased a farm in the Township of West York, part of lot 27, concession 2, and is at present engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1857 he bought the property where he resides, his residence having been erected by Lavens Newsome. He is a member of the English Church, and was for many years treasurer of the Temperance Society of Yorkville. In politics he is a Reformer. Mr. McKinlay is the only surviving member of his father?s family. He married before he came to Canada, and has only one son; he is engaged in the window shade manufacturing. (Vol. II, p. 97)

WILLIAM McLAREN, D.D., Professor of Systematic Theology, Knox College; residence, 73 St. George Street. Dr. McLaren is a native of Canada. He was born in the Township of Torbolton, in the County of Carleton, and is the fifth son of David McLaren, who was born at Drumlochey, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1789. His mother, Elizabeth Barnet, was born at Auchterarder, Perthshire, in 1788. His parents were married on 6th January, 1817, and after residing some years in Glasgow, came to Canada in 1822, and settled for a short time at Richmond, Ont. They then removed to Torbolton, on the banks of the Ottawa, where William was born. Subsequently Mr. David McLaren removed to Wakefield, Quebec, where he died in 1869; his wife following him six years later. He was by occupation a farmer, mill-owner and merchant, having been for a number of years associated with two of his sons in the well-known lumbering firm of James McLaren & Co., Wakefield and Ottawa. William McLaren received his preliminary education in the Grammar School, Ottawa, and in the Toronto Academy, an institution which owing to changes in the educational system of the Province, was subsequently closed. His college training was secured in Knox College, which at that time gave both a Theological and an Arts course. He also attended certain classes in the University of Toronto, although it was not then on its present liberal basis. On 1st June, 1853, he was ordained by the Presbytery of London, in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Canada, and was inducted into the charge of the church at Amherstburg, Ont. Here he entered upon his responsible duties with zeal and earnestness, and met with an encouraging measure of success. In 1857 he moved to Boston, Mass., having received a call from Knox Church, Beacon Street, now known as Columbus Avenue Presbyterian Church. The congregation was then in connection with the Presbytery of Montreal. This connection having been found inconsistent, it was, on his advice, dissolved, and the congregation was transferred to the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and Mr. McLaren returned to Canada. After receiving various invitations to important spheres of labour, Mr. McLaren accepted a call to the John Street Presbyterian Church, Belleville, where he laboured with success until 1870, when he was called to the pastorate of Knox Church, Ottawa. During his residence in Ottawa he held, by appointment of the General Assembly for the Session of 1872, the position of Lecturer on Apologetics in the Presbyterian College, Montreal. In 1873 he was appointed, by the same body, to the chair of Systematic Theology in Knox College, and as a professor has achieved success in his Alma Mater. In 1883 the University of Queen?s College, Kingston, conferred on Prof. McLaren the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. McLaren has always taken an active interest in the missionary operations and in the general work of the Church, and was for sixteen years convener of its Foreign Mission Committee. He is at present Moderator of the General Assembly, that body having conferred on him the highest honour in its gift, by electing him to that office in June, 1884. In 1854 Dr. McLaren married Miss Marjory Laing, third daughter of James R. Laing, of Middrie Park, Melbourne, Quebec. He has living one son, David, a Licentiate of the Presbyterian Church, and one daughter, Elizabeth Barnet, now Mrs. Arthur Mowat. (Vol. II, p. 98)

COLONEL NEIL McLEAN, late of St. Andrews, in the County of Stormont, Upper Canada, was born at Mingary, in the Island of Mull, in the year 1759. At an early age he served as ensign and lieutenant in the Royal Highland Emigrants, or 84th Regiment. The regiment was disbanded after the American Revolution, and Mr. McLean placed on half-pay on the 24th of June, 1784. In 1796 he was made Captain in the Royal Canadian Volunteers and served in Montreal, Quebec and York, until that corps was disbanded. He was then appointed Sheriff of the Eastern District, and in 1812 he was again in active service as Colonel of the Stormont Militia and Commandant of the District, taking part in the Battle of Chrysler?s Farm. After the war he was appointed Legislative Councillor of Upper Canada. He married the youngest daughter of John McDonell, of Leek, who, with his two brothers, McDonells of Coulaquhi and Aberholder, emigrated from Scotland with a number of their dependents and clansmen to the British possessions in America. When the Rebellion broke out the brothers remained true to their country, and leaving their property on the Mohawk River made their way through the wilderness to Canada. John McDonell, of Leek, died in Montreal and was buried under the parish church. Colonel McLean had three sons and five daughters, the sons were John, Archibald and Alexander. John, the eldest, was at one time Sheriff of Frontenac, and subsequently Registrar of the Counties of Glengarry, Stormont and Dundas; he served through the War of 1812. Alexander, the third son, also served through the war, being severely wounded when leading the attack at Ogdensburg. He was for some years member for Stormont and Commandant of the Eastern District; he died at Cornwall in 1875, aged eighty-two years. Colonel McLean?s second son, Archibald, was born at St. Andrews, on the 15th of April, 1791, and was educated in Cornwall at the celebrated Dr. Strachan School. When sixteen years of age he went to York and studied law with Mr. Firth, the then Attorney-General. In 1812 he got a commission in the 3rd York Militia, and was wounded at Queenston Heights while assisting Lieutenant-Colonel McDonell (Aide-de-Camp to General Brock), who, when wounded, called to him, “Archy, help me!” Owing to delay in extracting the ball, Mr. McLean?s life was for a time despaired of, and for several months he could not return to his duty. Mr. McLean was in York when it was taken by the Americans. He carried the colours of the 3rd York Militia to a place of safety, burying them in the woods behind Mr. McGill?s house, the site where now stands the Metropolitan Church; he made good his escape and reported himself at Kingston. After this he raised a company for the incorporated military from among the Highlanders of Glengarry. He commanded this company at Lundy?s Lane, where he was taken prisoner, and was detained, part of the time in close confinement, until the end of the war. After peace was proclaimed, declining a commission offered him in the regular army, he resumed the strudy of the law under Dr. Baldwin, father of the late Hon. Robert Baldwin, and was called to the bar in 1815. He then established himself in Cornwall, where he continued to reside until his appointment to the Bench, in 1837. He married Miss Joan McPherson, a daughter of John McPherson, Esq., of Three Rivers. In 1817 Mr. McLean was retained by the North-West Company to take evidence relating to the difficulties between the North-West Fur Company and Hudson?s Bay Company, which difficulties had led to the killing of Governor Semple and his men. The long journey to the Red River had to be made by canoe and the party suffered a good deal of hardship, the scarcity of provisions compelling them to live for three weeks entirely upon catfish. The object of this journey was, however, accomplished. In 1820 he was elected to the Parliament of Upper Canada from the county of Stormont, and continued a member of the House until 1837, when he was appointed to the Bench, having been twice Speaker of the House. In 1825 he went to England to press the claims for pensions of those who had served during the War of 1812 and succeeded in having these claims allowed. On being called to the Bench in 1837 he came with his family to Toronto, arriving here about a month before the breaking out of the Rebellion. A few days before that event, in conversation with some of his brother judges, he expressed his fears that there would be trouble. “Oh”, said one of them, “McLean, you are afraid”. “Yes”, he said, “I am afraid we will be caught napping”, and sure enough there was not a soldier in the town when Mackenzie assembled his force at Montgomery?s Hill. When the bells rang out the alarm, he, with his eldest son, John, took his horses, and going to the old fort, they got artillery harness, and, lumbering up a twelve-pounder, drove to the City Hall, where the loyal people were assembling. As they drove up, the word went through the hall: “Here come the rebels”, and a hundred guns were levelled, when fortunately they were recognized by Chief Justice Robinson, who told the men who they were. In the attack on Montgomery?s Hill, Judge (Colonel) McLean commanded the left wing. He was afterwards sent to Washington with despatches to the British Minister, and when en route would have been taken as a hostage by the sympathizers (Mackenzie being then on Navy Island), had it not been for the care of his warm personal friend, though political adversary, Marshall S. Bidwell, who, with some of the leading people of Rochester, kept watch to prevent any attempt to seize him. His career on the Bench is one of the traditions of the Law Society. His judgment in the celebrated Anderson case having excited more popular feeling and gratitude than any judgment ever delivered in Canada. On the retirement of Sir John Robinson, Judge McLean was appointed Chief Justice of Upper Canada, and in 1863 he was made President of the Court of Appeal. He died on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1865, in his seventy-fifth year. At the request of the Law Society, and the profession generally, his funeral was a public one. In commenting on his death, the Upper Canada Law Journal wrote as follows: “The manner of the late President of the Court of Appeal upon the Bench was dignified and courteous. Unsuspicious, and utterly devoid of anything mean or petty in his own character, his conduct to others was always what he expected from them. The profession generally, the young student as well as the old practitioner, will long remember with affection his courtesy and forbearance in Chambers and on the Bench; others will think of him as an entertaining and agreeable companion and a true friend; while others will call to mind the stately form of the old Judge as he approached and entered St. Andrew?s Church, where he was a constant and devout attendant, rain or sunshine, until his last illness which terminated in death. Archibald McLean was a man of remarkable and commanding presence; tall, straight and well-formed in person, with a pleasant, handsome face, and a kind and courteous manner, he looked and was every inch a man and a gentleman. He belonged to a race, most of whom have now passed away, the giants of Canada?s early history. He was one of those honest, brave, enduring, steadfast, men, sent by Providence to lay the foundation of a country?s greatness. The funeral cortege proceeded to the Necropolis, where amidst the sorrow of all who knew him were deposited the mortal remains of the Honourable Archibald McLean; the brave soldier; the upright judge; and the Christian gentleman.” Mrs. McLean, who survived him, came of Highland descent, her grandfather being the man who accompanied Dr. Cameron (brother of Locheil), his first cousin, to Scotland after the forty-five. Dr. Cameron was taken and was the last man executed. Her grandfather was pardoned and offered a commission, which he declined. He emigrated to Canada and assisted in the defence of Quebec, being one of the defenders of the Sault-aux-Matelot, when Montgomery was killed; one of his sons was killed during the siege. He was offered payment for his services and for his house, which was burned by a shell, but the old Highlander replied, “I take nothing from the House of Hanover.” Mrs. McLean died in the year 1870, leaving seven children surviving her, four sons and three daughters; of the sons, John Neil, the eldest, died at Prescott, Ontario in 1875; Archibald George is a barrister in Toronto; Thomas Alexander was an officer in the Queen?s Own at Ridgeway, and subsequently raised and commanded the Toronto Garrison Battery. He is now Registrar of the Calgary District, N.W.T., and the youngest, Neil, is manager of the Branch Bank of Montreal, in Brockville, Ontario. The family still hold the old homestead on Catharine Street, Toronto. (Vol. II, p. 99)

THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM McMASTER, who to-day stands in the front rank of Toronto?s prominent citizens, was born in the County of Tyrone, Ireland, on the 24th December, 1811. After receiving a sound education at a private school, he bade farewell to home, friends and country and set sail from Londonderry in 1833, bound for New York, leaving for Toronto in the same year, and entered upon his brilliant business career as a clerk in the wholesale and retail house of Robert Cathcart. His business tact and great ability were not long in making themselves known to his employer, and in 1834 Mr. Cathcart gave him a partnership in the business. This continued for ten years, when Mr. McMaster decided to launch out into business for himself. He accordingly opened out a wholesale dry goods house, and, by his industry, extended his business so thoroughly that there were few merchants in Western Ontario who were not his customers. The business increasing he found it necessary to move to larger premises, which he built adjoining the Bank of Montreal. The style of the firm was now William McMaster & Nephews. After a few years it was again found necessary to increase their premises. They accordingly erected the large and commodious warehouse on Front Street, now occupied by A.R. McMaster & Brother, the firm which succeeded the old one on the retirement of Mr. McMaster, who decided to turn his attention to financial affairs. Since his retirement form the wholesale dry-goods trade, Mr. McMaster has found a sphere in which his fine abilities have produced as good fruit as they did in commercial life. He was foremost among those who organized the Bank of Commerce, and is one of the principal stockholders. On the incorporation of the Bank he was elected its first President, and has held that position for more than twenty years. He has also held other responsible positions. Among these are Director of the Bank of Montreal; Director of the Ontario Bank; President of the Freehold Loan and Savings Company; Vice-president of the Confederation Life Association and Director of the Isolated Risk and Farmers? Insurance Company. For several years Mr. McMaster was Chairman of the Canadian Board of the Great Western Railway, and was the only member retained by the English Board upon the Canadian Board being abolished. In politics Mr. McMaster is a Liberal, but took no active part until 1862. In that year he was elected to represent, in the Legislative Council the Midland Division, comprising the counties of South Simcoe and North York. Up to the year 1856 the members of the Legislative Council had received their appointments from the Crown, but, by a change made in the Constitution in that year, the elective system was introduced, the members to hold office for eight years. Mr. McMaster was at first reluctant to contest the seat, but, when pressed by his friends, yielded, and going into the contest with his usual vigour and energy was returned by a large majority. Before the term for which he was elected had elapsed Confederation took place and the Legislative Council passed away, to be succeeded by the Senate. By Royal Proclamation in May, 1867, Mr. McMaster was one of the Senators called to represent Ontario. In 1865 he was appointed a member of the Council of Public Instruction, and until 1875 he continued to represent, at the Board, the Baptist Church, of which he is a prominent member. In 1873 the Lieutenant-Governor nominated him a member of the Senate of Toronto University. The Canadian Literary and Theological Institute, originally at Woodstock, owes its existence to Mr. McMaster. He contributed $12,000 to the building fund, and constantly assisted the Institute by generous donations. The valuable institution was afterwards removed to Toronto, where a magnificent building, known as McMaster Hall, has been built, Mr. McMaster contributing $60,000 toward its erection. The Jarvis Street Baptist Church is another monument to the liberality of this great friend of education and religion. The joint contribution of Mr. McMaster and his wife to the building fund of this costly and handsome structure is $60,000. Nor are these donations the extent of his generosity. The Upper Canada Bible Society, a non-sectarian institution, of which he is Treasurer, and the Superannuated Ministers? Society of the Baptist Church of Ontario, enjoy his support, both by donations and personal services. Mr. McMaster has been twice married; in 1851 to Mary Henderson, of New York City, who died in 1868, and in 1871 to Susan Molton, widow of the late James Fraser, of Newburgh, N.Y. (Vol. II, p. 102)