Born on 24 September 1881 at Watford, Ontario, Edwin Algernon was the son of Neville James Lindsay, a pioneer doctor who was the first Canadian Government Physician to the Blackfoot, Stony and Sarcee Indians. As a boy of four he saw the driving of the 'last spike' of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Af

John Gilmour, the eldest of the three children of the Rev. James Gilmour, a Presbyterian minister, and of Annie Campbell (née Brown), was born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, on 1 December 1893. As a result of his father's varied domicile he was educated at Cowdenbeath Board School; the High School,