104 BOVEY--BOVILLE. BOWELL. after which he studied for 2 yrs. at Berlin, Leipsic, Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. Ordained, 1883, he was called to the pastorate of James St. Ch., Hamilton, Ont., 1887, and continued there till 1894. He was called to the pastorate of the 1st Bapt. Ch., St. Paul, Minn., 1893, but declined. He resigned his charge early in 1894, to spend 6 mths. travelling in Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, Greece and Turkey, but was recalled to his old charge in Hamilton the same year and accepted. He is highly regarded as a preacher and lecturer, and is a persona grata not only in his own Ch. but among people of all denominations, because of his catholic spirit. He contested Hamilton for the Ho. of Commons at the g. e. 1896, in the Con. interest, and was defeated by 23 votes. He is unm.--Hamilton, OM. BOWELL, Hon. Sir Mackenzie, politician, is the s. of the late John Bowell, carpenter and builder, and was b. at Rickinghall, Suffolk, Eng., Dec. 27, 1823. Coming to Can. with his parents, 1833, he was apprenticed shortly afterwards to the printing business in the office of the Rellevilielntdligencer, of which newspaper, he became, in after yrs., ed. and prop. Elected chairman of the Bd. of Sch. trustees, Belleville, he joined the Orange Order, and was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ont. East, and, later, Grand Master and Sovereign of the Orange Assn. of Brit. Am. He is also a Forester. He became V.-P. of the Ont. Agricul. and Arts Assn., and Presdt. of the Ont. Press Assn. He entered the V. M. service as ensign in the Belleville Rifle Co., 1857, and was stationed with the corps of observation sent to the western frontier of Ont. during the Am. civil war, 1864. Subsequently, he was on special service at Prescott, on the St. Lawrence, at the time of the first Fenian raid. Promoted major of the 49th Batt., Feb., 1867, he attained the rank of It. -col., Feb., 1872, and retired from the 105 was, for a time, the law partner of on his appt. as Prof, of Civil Engithe late Mr. Meroier. After the neering and Applied Mech. inMcG-ill elevation of Hon. L. V. Sieotte to Univ. At that time the engineering the bench, he became the leader of courses in the Univ. were managed the dist. bar. , He held office as a branch of the faculty of arts, as a sch. comnr., sat at the alder- and were without buildings or equipmanic bd., was Presdt. of the Lit- ment. The following year, howerary Inst. and was elected first ever, a dept. of applied science Presdt. of the St. Lawrence and was constituted, and Prof. B. was Missisquoi Junction Ry. A Lib. in elected its Dean. The Macdonald politics, he unsuccessfully contested and other endowments enabled the Bagot in that interest, at the Dom. Univ. to erect the magnificent eng.e., 1874, being defeated by a small gineering buildings not long since majority. Mr. B, was apptd. a completed, which were planned and Puisne Judge of the Sup. Ot., P.Q., equipped by Dean B., and the whole June ], 1876, and was assigned to of the work carried out under his the jl. dist. of Ottawa, with resi- direct supervision. Prof. B. is the dence at Aylmer, where he remained author of "Applied Mechanics," until Nov. 1880. In the latter year (1883) ; " The Theory of Structures he was transferred to the dist. of and Strength of Materials," (1892) ; Three Rivers, where he still is. " The Strength of Canadian Douglas His Lordship tried the Oka In- Fir, Red Pine and Spruce," (1895) ; dians for arson, at Aylmer, 1879, " A Treatise on Hydraulics," (do) and the Hooper case, for murder, and of various papers, one of them at Three Rivers, 1895. In 1880, on the Public Waterworks of Can., together with the late Chief-Justice, which he has read before the Royal Sir P. Johnson and Justice Olivier, Soc. of Can and other bodies. He he tried the Berthier controverted was Secy, of the Can. Soc. of C. E., election case, which was the last from the foundation of the Soc. until case tried in Quebec in which the recently, and is now a V. -P. of the question of spiritual intimidation Soc. He was the founder of the was raised. The decision rendered Montreal Sanitary Assn., which has seems to have set at rest a much revolutionized house plumbing in disputed point in the Province. In that city. Of other societies he is a religious faith, he is a R. C. He m. mem. of the Inst. of C. E., and of May, 1859, Mary Prances, dau. of the Inst. of Mech. Eng., of Eng.; a Wm. C. Gibson, of Aylmer, P.Q.-- mem. of the Liverpool Soc. of C. E., Three Rivers, P. Q. and an lion. mem. of the National B07EY, Henry Taylor, education- Electric Light Assn. of the U.S. ist, was Tx in Devonshire, Eng., He has received the hoii. degree of Mch. 7, 1852. His primary ed. D.C.L., from Lennoxville, and that was received at a private sch., after of LL. D., from McGill and Queen's which he entered Cambridge Univ., Univs. He m. the youngest dau. where lie competed for and obtained of the late John Redpath, of Montan open scholarship. On graduation real.--" Sunnandene," Ontario Avehe took a high place in the mathe- nue, Montreal. matical tripos, and shortly after" The pioneer in Can. of Univ. engineerwards was made a fellow of Queen's ing."--Prof. Dupuis. Coll. Adopting the profession of a BOVILLE, Eev. Robert &. ( Bapt.), civil engr., he joined the staff of the is the s. of Wm. and Mary Boville, Mersey Docks and Harbor Works and was b. at " The Grange," Co. and was in a short time apptd. an Antrim, Irel., 1854. He was ed. at asst. engr. on this work, and in Belfast public schs. and at Aberdeen this capacity had charge of some of Univ. (M. A., with honors in Mental the most important structures then Phil., 1881). He studied Theol. at in progress. In 1877 he came to Can. ] Toronto Bapt. Coll. (B.D., 1885), . force with that rank, Mch., 1874. Mr. B. was an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of North Hastings in the Can. Assembly, g. e., 1863. At the first g. e. for the Ho. of Commons after Confederation, he was returned for North Hastings, and continued its representative in the Commons for an unbroken period of 25 yrs., being then called to the Senate. As a private mem., he sat on the Select Comte. of the Commons apptd. to enquire into the causes of the difficulties in the N. W. T., 1869-70, and he subsequent^ moved for the expulsion of Louis Riel from Parlt. For his action in this matter he received a testimonial from the Orange bodj'. On the return of the Cons, to power, 1878, he entered Sir John Macdonald's cabinet as Mr. of Customs, occupying that office for 13 yrs. During that period the " N. P." was developed, and it fell to his lot to carry the new system into operation. Under Sir John Abbott he was Mr. of Militia, and under Sir John Thompson, he was Mr. of Trade and Commerce. On the demise of the last named statesman, Dec., 1894, Mr. B. formed an Admin, whose main policy was the enforcement of remedial legislation in the matter of the Manitoba Seh. question. Having failed to accomplish this object, he retired from the Govt., Apl. 27, 1896, and was succeeded in the Premiership by Sir Chas. Tupper. As Mr. of Trade and Commerce, he was sent on a trade mission to Australia, 1893. One of the results of his journey was the Colonial Conf., that assembled in Ottawa, June, 1894, over whose deliberations he presided. He was apptd. a K.C.M.G., Jan. 1, 1895, shortly after becoming Prime Minister. Subsequent to his retirement from office, he served as a del. to Eiig. touching the Australian cable scheme, and attended the 3rd Com. Congress in London. He was elected leader of the Con. Opposition in the Senate, Aug. 25, 1896, and during the following month repurchased the copy-