Arthur Miller, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ While president of the Montreal Board of Trade, a semi-official organisation of business men (1886-8) , he induced the government to assume the cost of deepening the ship channel from Montreal to Quebec, so as to make it navigable by large ocean-going steamers. In 1882 he was elected director of the bank of Montreal, vice-president in 1887, and president in 1905, the position of highest distinction open in Canada to men engaged in finance. ”
