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Excerpt from The Canadian Album, Vol. 5: Encyclopedia Canada or the Progress of a Nation in Religion, Patriotism, Business, Law, Medicine, Education and Agriculture, Containing Facts and Faces of Some of Canada's Businessmen, Statesmen, Farmers, Men of the Learned Professions, and Officers; With
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