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West, William John

  • Person
  • 1892-1985

Lawyer, politician, and judge, William John West, the son of Amelia Prince Small and Wesley West, was born at Cole's Island, Queens County, New Brunswick on 20 December 1892. Educated at local schools in Coles Island, he attended Gagetown Grammar School and later Mount Allison (B.A.) and Harvard (LL.B.) universities. In addition to farm work, he spent five years as a clerk in a country store, time as a lumberjack and rafter, and a year running a large sawmill. Although politics interested him from a young age, he followed his father's and grandfather's affiliation to the Progresive Conservative Party, it was only through an uncle that the law suggested itself as an option. Called to the New Brunswick bar in 1923, he practised law, first at Woodstock (1923-1928) and then in Fredericton under the firm name Hanson, Dougherty & West. In 1933 he married Katherine E. MacMurray, and the couple raised two daughters, Mary (Pratt) and Barbara (Cross).

William West's education at Mount Allison was interrupted in 1915, when he enlisted as a gunner in the lst C.G.A. He served overseas in England and France with the artillery, a signal corps, and Canadian engineers during the First World War, including duty at Vimy and Paschendale. He was demobilized from the army in April 1919 with the rank of lieutenant.

West was active in the business and political arenas. He served as director of the A. R. Loggie Company and the Maritime Trust Company. Two terms on Fredericton City Council were followed in 1952 by election on the Progressive Conservative ticket as an MLA for York County. He served as Attorney General in Hugh John Flemming's cabinet until 1958, when he was appointed to the Appeals Division of the New Brunswick Supreme Court. He stepped down from the court in 1967 and among his retirement achievements was the publication of The Wests of Coles Island, The Story of a Family, in 1982. Judge West died February 24, 1985.

Source:
Prominent People of New Brunswick
Daily Gleaner February 25, 1985.

West, Alfred

  • Person
  • fl. 1921-1922

Businessman Alfred West was living at Cole's Island, Queens County, New Brunswick, in 1921 and 1922. On 15 June 1921 he entered into an agreement with Ashley A. Colter, secretary-treasurer of the Smith Foundry Co. Ltd., of Fredericton, N.B., to deliver 300,000 feet of spruce and fir to a cut up mill, at Cody's, for the sum of $12 per thousand. He also agreed to rent his mill and camp to Colter.

For his part, Ashley Colter agreed to pay for the rescale of these logs, to pay $500 immediately, to complete payment on 1 August 1921, and to keep the mill in repair in addition to paying rent. At the time of making this agreement, H. A. Smith was president and manager of the Smith Foundry Co. and W. D. Gunter was vice-president. The foundry manufactured the Dunbar shingle machine and superior lath machine, as well as contractors' equipment, agricultural implements, furnaces, stoves and utensils, iron and brass castings, and wrought and sheet iron goods.

By September 1921 a dispute had arisen between West and Colter over compliance with the terms of the agreement. It is unknown how, when, or if this dispute was resolved.

Sources: MC378 file.

Wedderburn, Frederick Vernon

  • Person
  • 1861-1920

Frederick Vernon Wedderburn (1861-1920), the eldest son of Judge William Wedderburn (ca. 1837-1918) and Jeannie Vaughn (ca. 1838-1899) was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and educated in the law at New York. He became a professional soldier, serving in Egypt in 1884, in the North West Rebellion in 1885, Egypt again in 1896, and then in the Boer War (1899-1902). He retired from the army in 1912.

Upon the outbreak of war in 1914, he returned to active duty to organize the 115th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force which departed from Saint John in 1915 with 1000 men under his command. Like many other newly-formed Canadian battalions, the 115th Battalion was disbanded in England, and its troops were assigned to other units on the front. Lt. Colonel Wedderburn, then over 50 years old, was assigned to other duties better fitting his military experience. On his return to Saint John, he married Alice Jane Kee McGerighle (1880-1944) in 1919. The couple was childless.

Source:
Wedderburn Home Page: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/euroleader/wedderburn/bruns4.htm

Webster, William Lusk, Ph.D.

  • Person
  • 1903-1975

Dr. William Lusk Webster (1903-1975) was born in Shediac, New Brunswick, the son of Dr. John Clarence Webster and Alice Lusk Webster. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Cambridge University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1926 for research in physics. After graduation he carried on research in physics at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge. From 1932 to1934, he travelled in Africa and Russia.

Dr. Webster studied at the London School of Economics from 1934-1939. During World War II, he held various positions with the Directorate of Scientific Research, Ministry of Supply, London; the British Central Scientific Office, Washington; the National Research Council, Ottawa; the Air Defense Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Supply, London and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research of Great Britain, Washington. Dr. Webster was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the American Freedom Medal for his wartime work.

Following his father's death in 1950, William became a trustee of the Webster Museum Foundation at the New Brunswick Museum and also continued his father's interest in the Fort Beauséjour Museum. Dr. Webster was interested in the history of Westmorland County, particularly the Shediac area. In 1950, he returned to Shediac, where he remained until his death.

Ralph W. Hewson (ca. 1895-1963) was a Moncton lawyer and family lawyer for the Websters. He was the honorary curator of the Fort Beauséjour Museum and was a local historian.

Webster, Dr. John Clarence, M.D.

  • Person
  • 1863-1950

John Clarence Webster, son of James and Roslin Webster, was born in Shediac, New Brunswick on 21 October 1863. Educated at Shediac Grammar School and Mount Allison, Edinburgh, Cincinnati, and Dalhousie universities, he took post graduate studies at Leipzig, Berlin, and Edinburgh. In 1899 he married Alice Kessler Lusk, and they had two sons and one daughter.

Between 1890 and 1896 Webster was first assistant to the professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Edinburgh University, subsequently holding the posts of lecture in Gynecology (McGill University), assistant gynecologist (Royal Victoria Hospital), professor of obstetrics and gynecology (Rush Medical College), and gynecologist-in-chief (Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago). He retired from active practice in 1920, taking up residence in Shediac. During his career, he wrote numerous medical papers as well as articles on various aspects of Maritime history.

Respected by his peers, Webster was named a fellow of several societies including the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Canada, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Gynaecological Society. He also served on the Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and the Council of Education and as vice-president of both the Canadian Historical Association and the New Brunswick Historical Society. Dr. John Clarence Webster died in 1950.

Source: Prominent Men of Canada, 1931-1932

Webster, Dr. John Clarence, M.D.

  • Person
  • 1863-1950

Dr. John Clarence Webster was born in Shediac in 1863. He graduated from Mount Allison University in 1882 and went on to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1890, he remained with the University in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Webster was forced by ill health to return to Canada in 1896 and he accepted the positions of Lecturer in Gynecology at McGill University and Assistant Gynecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1899 Dr. Webster was invited to become Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush Medical College, which was affiliated with the University of Chicago. He remained in Chicago for twenty years in teaching, practice and research until ill health induced him to return to Canada.

Dr. Webster had married Alice Lusk of New York in 1899 and, during their years in Chicago, they began to collect Oriental art. Many items from their collection were later donated to the New Brunswick Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum. Files relating to their Oriental collection have been placed in the series of personal papers.
IV. On leaving Chicago, Dr. Webster decided to settle in Shediac. He became interested in Canadian history and began to assemble a collection of Canadiana.

Dr. Webster was appointed to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in 1923 and became chairman in 1943. In addition to the marking of historic sites, he became interested in the development of historic parks and museums. It was largely through his initiative that museums were erected at Beaus‚jour and Louisbourg.
VI. Dr. Webster was actively interested in the establishment of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia and was appointed a Trustee in 1929. Other appointments were as a member of the Royal Commission on Railways and Transportation (1931), Chairman of the Carnegie Corporation's Canadian Museum Committee (1933) and a Governor of Dalhousie University (1934).

In 1929 Dr. Webster became a founder of the New Brunswick Museum and served as a member of the Board and Honorary Curator of Canadian History until his death in 1950. In addition to his collection of pictorial Canadiana, Dr. Webster donated his Canadiana library and his collection of manuscripts to the Museum in 1941. Dr. Webster's personal files and the majority of his correspondence were given to the Museum by his son, William Webster in 1954. Working files, consisting of articles, clippings and some correspondence, were transferred from the History Department to the archives in 1975. Correspondence and invoices relating only to the acquisition of items in the Webster Canadiana Pictorial Collection were retained in the Museum's artifact files. Photographs were transferred from the archives to the Webster Photograph Collection in the custody of the Humanities Division.

Watson, Viva

  • Person
  • 1886-

Viva Lee (nee Davis) Watson was born in Bristol, New Brunswick, in 1886. Viva married Harley Ballentine Watson in 1905. Harley Watson was a sergeant in the 14th Canadian Machine Gun Section and was killed at Vimy Ridge, France, in 1917. Viva Watson participated in the official pilgrimage to Vimy and the battlefields in 1936. Viva Watson was a member of the Baptist Church in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and a mother of Russell, Evelyn, Olivia, and Wendal.

Wart, Horace H. Van

  • Person
  • n.d.

Horace H. Van Wart was a captain in the Canadian military and lived in Toronto. He possibly belonged to the United Empire Loyalists Society.

Warman, Mary Nadine

  • Person
  • 1922-2015

Mary Nadine Warman (Sept. 19, 1922-April 15, 2015) was the daughter of Norman Sinton Steeves and Margaret Christina Cummings Steeves. She was born in Moncton. She married Richard Earl Warman, who worked for the Canadian National Railway, in June, 1948. They had one son, Nicholas “Nick” Warman.

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