84. THE CANADIAN SIO GRAPHICAL DICTION ART. the bow, I went on shore and hauled the canoe for more than sixteen miles, floundering through mud and water> knowing that the goal was drawing nearer every step. The last eight miles I had to take to the canoe, the mud along shore being so soft it would not bear my weight. Every half-hour a fainting spell would come over me, but by persistent effort I would overcome it, and at length, wearied and exhausted, we reached the fishery just as it was getting dark." A two months' journey, full of adventure, brought Mr. Macoun to Winnipeg, and a few days more found him in the bosom of his family, nothing the worse for his long and toilsome journeyings. His report of that expedition occupies one hundred and forty pages in Mr. Selwyn's full report. Professor Macoun was married to Miss Ellen Tyrrell of Brighton, January 1,1862, and they have five children. The oldest son, James, is a student in Albert University, and at the head of his class. The Professor has a pleasant home on a high point of land, near the University, with delightful grounds of his own taming and improving. 1 JAMES MORRIS, ST. CATHARINES. "T~AMES NORTHS, one of the successful business men and leading manufacturers of St. ^ Catharines, was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in February, 1820, his parents beingHis father was a farmer on a moderate scale. The son was James and Ann (Black) Norris. educated at a parish school, finishing at fourteen years of age, at which period of his life he emigrated with the family to Upper Canada, locating in the Township of Caledon, then in the County of Peel, now Cardwell. There the son aided his father in farming) until nineteen or twenty years of age, when he came to St. Catharines, sailing on the lakes and Welland Canal in the season of navigation, and for awhile spending his winters at home. About 1849 Mr. Norris formed a partnership with Sylvester Neelon, and the firm of Norris and Neelon continued until 1870, they being engaged in the vessel business, lumbering and milling, and, years later, also in stove manufacturing. Since the dissolution of the firm Mr. Norris has not materially changed his business, he being engaged in shipping grain, flour, and timber to the foreign markets--mainly to England. Mr. Norris is very enterprising as well as public spirited, and has aided in more than one Way to build up the lively and growing City of St. Catharines. He was in the Town Council several years, Mayor one term, and represented the County of Lincoln, in the House of Comrnons, for five years, being elected in January, 1874, and re-elected twice in four years. At the