How wonderful - only too glad to help. William Blackstock Lanigan, who occupies the important position of general freight agent for the central and western division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is a native of Three Rivers, Quebec, and was born October 12, 1861. He is a son of William and Alamena Lanigan, the father a native of Ireland, who settled in Canada in 1832, and the mother a native of the New England States, her grandfather being identified in the Revolutionary war of 1776. Mr. Lanigan was educated in the St. Joseph College at Three Rivers, which course was supplemented by a term at the Stanstead Wesleyan College of Quebec. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway at Upton, Quebec, as a telegraph operator, and three years later entered the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the same capacity at Sharbot Lake. He was successively promoted to the offices of station agent, train agent, freight agent, and assistant general freight agent, and on July 1, 1901, he came to Winnipeg upon his promotion as general fright agent for the central and western division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which office he is now acceptably filling. In 1876 Mr. Lanigan married Miss Arabella Avery, a daughter of the late Isaac Avery, of Mallorytown, Ontario. They are the parents of two children, Leonard and Alice. Politically Mr. Lanigan gives his support to the Conservative party, and both he and Mrs. Lanigan are members of St. Luke's church. The History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce. the Canada History Company, Toronto:Montreal, 1906. p. 427. --------- Sorry - no photo. And FYI, 'Revolutionary war' is spelled like that in the book (lower case 'w'). And 'church' was not capitalized either. Guess things were different then. Bette