Last Will and Testament of Charles Vance Millar

The wording on this and the following initialled pages is the Will of me CHARLES MILLAR, made at Toronto, this seventh June 1921. This Will is necessarily uncommon and capricious because I have no dependents or near relations and no duty rests upon me to leave any property at my death and what I do leave is proof of my folly in gathering and retaining more than I required in my lifetime.

1.       To A.L. Gourlay of the J.J. McLaughlin Company, Toronto, I give ten thousand dollars as he lost approximately that sum in a business transaction with me.

2.       To Mrs. Wilson my Housekeeper I give five hundred dollars.

3.       To C.H. Kemp I give one thousand dollars.

4.       To Willis West of Edmonton I give one half of the shares I own in the British Columbia Express Company.

5.       At the death of Major Joseph Kilgour I give to the Head Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church at Toronto five hundred dollars for Masses for the soul of the said Major as he will be greatly in need of help at that time.

6.       I give to Honorable W.E. Raney, A.M. Orpen and Reverend Samuel D. Chown, each one share in the Ontario Jockey Club providing three years from my death each of them becomes enrolled as shareholders in the share register of the club and if they or any of them fail to do so the said three shares shall form part of my residuary estate.

7.       To each duly ordained Minister of a Christian Church (except one Spracklin who shot an Hotelkeeper) resident at my death in Towns of Walkerville and Sandwich and the City of Windsor and earning an annual salary expounding the scripture to the sinners there, I give one share in the Kenilworth Jockey Club.

8.       To each Protestant Minister exercising his clerical function at an annual salary and resident in Toronto at the time of my death and to each Orange Lodge in Toronto I give one share of the O’Keefe Brewery Company of Toronto, Limited.

9.       To T.P. Galt, K.C., J.D. Montgomery and James Haverson, K.C., I give for life my house on Jamaica Island known as Ivy Green on the Half Way Tree Road and upon the death of the last survivor of them I direct my Executors and Trustees to sell the same and give the proceeds to the Council of the City of Kingston, Jamaica, for distribution among the poor of that City deserving help.

10.      All the rest and residue of my property wheresoever situate I give, devise and bequeath unto my Executors and Trustees named below in Trust to convert into money as they deem advisable and invest all the money until the expiration of nine years from my death and then call in and convert it all into money and at the expiration of ten years from my death to give it and its accumulations to the Mother who has since my death given birth in Toronto to the greatest number of children as shown by the Registrations under the Vital Statistics Act. If one or more mothers have equal highest number of registrations under the said Act to divide the said moneys and accumulations equally between them.

11.      I revoke all Wills heretofore made by me.

12.      I appoint the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, the National Trust Company and George Roy Sproat, Executors and Trustees of this my Will and my Estate shall always be managed by three Trustees and legal representatives.

Signed by the said CHARLES MILLAR in the presence of us both present at the same time and we attested and signed in the presence of the said Testator all being present and all signed on one occasion.