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President of the ACC from 1906 to 1910, and then managing director for 16 years from 1907 to 1930. The year following the
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Canadian militia as a lieutenant with the Dominion Land Surveyors Intelligence Corps under Captain J. S. Dennis and, with a group of other land surveyors, marched to help quell the rebellion. At the
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