John Ogilvie (miller)

He received his early education from Mr. Gibson, a Scotsman employed by the English speaking residents of the district to teach their children.

The company purchased several thousand acres of prairie land and built numerous wheat elevators and the extensive Winnipeg flour mills.

John was in charge of construction and during the last years of his life spent almost half his time in Ontario and Manitoba managing the company's expansion.

He was a governor of the Montreal General Hospital and a member of the American Presbyterian Church on Dorchester (now Rene Levesque) Blvd.

His life was a striking example of the fact that energy and enterprise, coupled with good judgement and patient industry, will almost certainly secure an adequate reward.

We have seen the firm with which he was connected grow from small beginnings until it has become one of the largest and most important in the Dominion, and we all know that he contributed his full share to the development of its immense business.

He was a staunch friend, a wise counsellor, a kindly and genial confrere, and I feel that his death is a serious loss not only to the association, but to the Dominion at large.