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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GBNTR?. 2(37 1866-7 ; accompanied Sir G. B. Cartier to England on the question of the defences of the Dominion and the acquisition of the North-West Territories, 1868 ; commissioner for Ontario, for the settlement of the north-western boundary of the province, 1871 ; special commissioner in England for the Dominion on the subject of Fisheries, 1873 ; in 1873-4, visited Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, at the instance of the Canadian Government, to appoint agents and make arrangements for aiding agricultural emigrants to the Canadian North- West. He sat in the Canadian Legislature from 1858, until the Union, 1867, when he was returned to the House of Commons ; elected to Ontario Assembly in May, 1875; resigned September, 1878, and was again returned to the House of Commons. He retired from public life, 1882. The Hon. W. McDougall m. first, 1845, Amelia Caroline {d. 1869), daughter of Joseph Easton, Esq. of Millbank ; and secondly, 1872, Mary, daughter of John Beatty, Esq., M.D., of Cobourg, Ontario. ILineage. The tradition in the family is that they came from Invei-ness-shire, Scotland. John McDougall, Esq., the grandfather of the Hon. William McDottgall, left Scotland at an early age, shortly before the American Revolution, and served on the British side during that fratricidal war. When peace was declared, he, with other loyalists, pro- ceeded to Nova Scotia, and settled at Shel- burne, whence he went to Western Canada, settling finally at Little York, afterwards known to the world as Toronto. He m. at Shelburne, N.S., the daughter of a retired British officer, and had issue, two sons and five daughters. His second son, Daniel McDougall, Esq. of St. Mary's, co. York, Ontario, a well-to-do farmer and J. P. for many years, d. in 1876, leaving issue, six sons and four daughters. His eldest son is the present Hon. William McDougall. Residence — Bank Street-road, Ottawa, Canada. Club — Rideau. aeest^ersfetne of fUfntrmarsIj felantr. WEST-ERSKINE, HON. WILLIAM ALEXANDER ERSKINE, of Hindmarsh Island, Lake Alexandrina, South Australia, M.A. (Christ Church, Oxford), memberof the Legislative Council of South Australia, h. 12th September, 1839, at Anamoe, co. Wicklow, Ireland. He represented, in two Parliaments, the Mount Barker electoral district. South Australia, and in one Parliament the electoral district of Encounter Bay, South Australia ; was formerly minister of Public Works (1875-6), and was one of the two special representative commissioners for South Australia, to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876. By Royal Licence, dated 1872, he was authorized to take and use the surname of Erskine, in addition to and after that of West, and to bear the arms of Erskine, quarterly with his own family arms. Mr. West-Erskine is unm. Hineage. Matthew West, Esq., S. in 1777; some- Maria Louisa Rumley, his wife (of a family time an officer in the 16th (Buckingham) Regiment, was descended from an officer in William Illrd's army, who, with his two brothers, also officers in the army, went to Ireland, and are believed to have settled severally in cos. Dublin, Wicklow, and Kil- dare. They were descended from a branch of the Wests, Earls De La Warr. Matthew West, m. in 1802, Maria Louisa Joly, daughter of Baron de Blassi, or de Blassy, by resident in Cork, Ireland), and had, amongst other issue, William James (Rev.), of whom pre- sently. Augustus William (Very Rev.), M.A. Trinity College, Dubhn, rector of Presteign, co. Radnor, and formerly dean of Armagli. Rev. William James West, M.A.,