United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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JAMES H. ASHDOWN, Progressive (Continued from page 24) where his very existence is dependent on the whim of a single railroad corporation.” As a special constable he took part in those stirring days just after the middle of October, 1888. The two opposing forces faced each other at Fort Whyte. Here the C.P.R. blocked the crossing of their south west line by a railway which would connect the Red River Valley (The Northern Pacific) Railroad with the Manitoba and North-Western at Portage la Prairie. However the crossing was completed, the railroads connected and the freight tariff lowered between Winnipeg and Port Arthur. In 1889 he expanded his business by purchasing a hardware store in Calgary. Then during the next decade the business in Winnipeg was placed in modern buildings. In 1900 a special Ashdown train carrying one thousand tons of hardware was sent to different points in the West. Two years later the J. H. Ashdown Hardware Co. Limited was incorporated and in 1904 the Diamond A mark was devised and registered. In 1906 Winnipeg was threatened with a deficiency in the water supply. There were millions of dollars of unsold bonds, an overdraft at the bank, and the civic government needed reorganization consequent to the establish¬ ment of a Board of Control. They had decided, because of high rates for electricity, to establish a municipal hydro-electric plant at Point du Bois. The citizens turned to Mr. Ashdown and elected him Mayor for 1907 and then re-elected him in 1908 to complete this program. When others were hesitating regarding the public ownership of utilities he issued in 1906 an explicit statement over his own signature. “I am in favor of the principle of public ownership of all public utilities which in¬ cludes that of the telephone.” As early as 1869 he became trustee of Grace Methodist Church. He assisted in the founding of Wesley College in 1888, the building of the main building in 1894-96 and Sparling Hall 1912, and he gave largely to its en¬ dowments and maintenance. The Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A., the Children’s Aid Society benefited by his advice and financial assistance. He was a Life Member of the Winnipeg General Hospital Board. On July 23rd, 1906, he was appointed chairman of a commission charged with securing a suitable and adequate supply of water. Upon his election to office as Mayor, 1907, he resigned this chairmanship but was at once re¬ appointed. The Commission in that year recommended the Winnipeg River as the source of supply and pressed for the fulfilment of their plan. Finan¬ cial difficulties intervened. In 1912 the matter was taken up again and the next year Mr. Ashdown was again on the commission to complete the work. The new supply was available in Winnipeg March 29th, 1919. On June 20th, 1920, the work being completed, Mr. Ashdown resigned but was appointed Honorary Chairman and held this position until his death, April 5th, 1924. A.S.C. VISIT . . . BANK J rathwaite s AT FOUNTAIN, THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA TEA ROOM PORTAGE AT VAUGHAN Two blocks east of the College Portage and Good Branch WINNIPEG [31]

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Dr. Harvey makes a careful an¬ alysis of the difficulties which the order encountered in attempting to establish itself, and his use of authoritative documents is a real contribution to the history of the period. Loyola’s work in attempt¬ ing to make his order a more Christian body than those in ex¬ istence at that time, has been overlooked. Here it receives ade¬ quate treatment, to say the least. Dr. Harvey lifts whole sections from the original works and in¬ corporates them in his book with¬ out judging his author from any but a purely Jesuit standpoint, and one feels that his work is the loser. Throughout the book one is impressed by the spirit of loyalty and disinterestedness shown by the early Jesuits, and cannot but feel that it was due in large meas¬ ure to the personal characteristics of the first and greatest of gen¬ erals. He has left the reader en¬ tirely in the dark concerning any later developments in Jesuit his¬ tory. Here would have been a point of contact between the Prot¬ estant author and his material, however, he has seen fit to close his study with the period which was also closed by the death of the founder of the order. An Interesting Fact Grace Moore’s Secretary was a student of the Dominion Business College, Winnipeg, just two years ago! “Not failure, but low aim is crime.” DOMINION BUSINESS COLLEGE THE MALL ELMWOOD - ST. JAMES - ST. JOHN’S AAnnrf « ° pen aI1 Night IViUUlCO including Sunday [30]

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