A CANADIAN K.G.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1935, Page 9

A CANADIAN K.G.

MISS HELEN KINNEAR (From "The Post's" Representative.) OTTAWA, March 1. Canada's first woman K.C., Miss Helen Kinnear, made her first appearance before the Supreme Court in an appeal case last week. A native of Ontario, of Scottish parents, who settled there in the 70's, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1917, with first-class honours in English and history. Immediately afterwards she was articled to her father, the late Mr. Louis Kinnear. Entering the Osgoode Law School, she won a scholarship in her first year. Honour standing attended her studies throughout her course, and in 1920 she was called to the Bar and entered into partnership with her father. , ■ Miss Kinnear has travelled widely and visited Great Britain and most of the countries of Europe. A keen motorist, she drove her car across North America to study the legal system of the States of the Union. During this tour she attended murder trials and visited penitentiaries. Early in her career Miss Kinnear was elected secretary of the Ontario Women's Liberal Association: With her sister, she lives at the family home, a spacious, rambling residence, surrounded by lawns and gardens. Its proximity to Niagara Falls enables her to equip it with every conceivable electrical' time-saving device, even to cake mixer and dish washer.

would mean. It would be the essence of bad management to vote either way until they could form a sound judgment. The matter certainly should go to the tramways committee, where it could be fully considered. Councillors would find when they had all the facts that the increase of 6d did lead to an increase of revenue at a time when it was badly needed. It was true that as far as the city was concerned the introdu'/aon of the ticket allowing 10 rides for Is had led to a great increase in the number of passengers, but it had not led to a proportionate increase in revenue. The monetary return after this reduction had not made up the revenue to the' same figure as before the reduction took place, but it came sufficiently near it to justify the reduction, in his opinion.l It would lead to a further increase which might surpass the previous figure. They were dealing with a very big undertaking, and must have all the figures before them before deciding what to do. "We all want a general reduction," said Mr. Hislop, "but we must act on sound lines. The matter should go to the committee for the most full and careful consideration. It would be quite wrong to carry the resolution with the information now before the council." .The amendment was carried.