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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 52, 10 September 1928, Page 9

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: ; bachelors in canada }\ Quebec the exception *-\ ( (Fran "Tin Post's" RtprMMtatlv*.) i? ' OTTAWA, Bth August. i* Many men, prominent in the public £1 life of Canada to-day, are bachelors. >\ The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. W. <; L. Mackenzie King, the Leader' of the fi Conservative Opposition, the Hon. B. y. B. Bennett, and the loader of the Pro'Jl gressive Party,' Mr. Robert Gardiner, rfj are bachelors. The president of the f Canadian Pacific Railway, Mr. E. W. >j1 Beatty, K.C., who controls tho.largest ;.' railway organisation in the world, is a < bachelor. '£; f In the provinces there aro numerous j \ incidents of bachelors occupying high S\ positions in the community. In OnS tario there are the Minister of Public ',i Works, Mr. T. L. Church (who was ,] Mayor of Toronto for seven terms), a •'-', leading mining magnate, and a noted •.] preacher, and in Manitoba an ex-Pre- ■/■; mier, a noted financier, three senior • members of the Bar, an ironworks mag- '•".; nate, and a millionaire grain operator. '"' In British Columbia the bachelorhood .1 claims a noted politician, mine owner,! '"] banker and editior, and in the Mari- ':■ times the head of a big shipping firm, ', "■! the chairman of the Harbour Commisi'j sion, President of the Board of Trade, ,"? a mining operator, and a well-known ■ , legislator. ; ; : The re\*erse is the. caso in the Pro- ., vince of Quebpc, where the birth rato •j is among the highest in the world. All ;»: tho prominent men are married or wid- '■\ owers. The Mayor of Montreal has 20 v) children. • .