One of the largest manufacturers in Montreal, prominent in the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and active in the Montreal Board of Trade and the Montreal Chambre de Commerce

Was long alderman & afterwards Deputy Mayor of West Ham, London, England; a businessman, elected Honorary Trustee of the London Dock Labourers, & also Honorary President of the Coal Workers of London

Director of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Toronto

Director of Mines, Ottawa

Vice President of the Grain Growers' Grain Company, Saskatchewan

President of the American Federation of Labour

Professor of Field Husbandry, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario

Secretary of the Canadian Bankers' Association, Montreal