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Death sought last week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost...
...nine Canadian provinces, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan, have each their own Lieutenant-Governor, Parliament and Premier...
...late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave $500,000 to Sir James McGrigor in a futile...
...wise men think that William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is seriously ill, they are mistaken. At Murray Bay, Quebec, Mr. Taft laughed, denied emphatically any such rumor...
...Pope appointed Bishop Raymond Marie Rouleau of Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada, to be Archbishop of Quebec...