Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons, and writer on the Constitution of the Canadian Dominion, born at Sydney, NS, on the 24th of October 1837. He was educated at Trinity College, Toronto, and for a time was editor of a journal in Halifax, NS. In 1880 he became chief clerk of the House of Commons at Ottawa, and has been an extensive writer in English, American, and Canadian magazines. His published works are Parliamentary Practice and Procedure (1880); Constitutional History of Canada (1887); Parliamentary Government in Canada (1892); and How We are Governed (Toronto, 1895). In 1890 he was created a C.M.G. In 1896 appeared a History of Canada, in the “Story of the Nations” Series.
