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 JAMES BAYLIS. 
 
 The subject of this necessarily brief sketch was bom in London on 
 November 14th, in the year 1819, and was consequently in his 80th 
 year at the time of his death on January 2nd, 1899. He came of the 
 sturdy trading stock for which London is proverbial, and which has 
 helped to make England respected in the world's markets, his father, 
 Henry Baylis, being engaged in the manufacture and sale of varnish, 
 paints and oils, with the unviable reputation of "making good 
 goods." 
 
 Following the swarming Instinct of that crowded hive of workers, 
 his parents left the old home to seek another in the new land, and 
 arrived in Canada somewhere in the middle thirties, James finding 
 employment in Quebec with one Mr. Thornton, and the family taking 
 up their residence at Cote des Neiges, back of the little mountain, 
 the old house being until recent years the summer home of the third 
 generation, who cherish sweet recollections of the taste of the St. 
 Lawrence and Fameuse apples in the old orchard. The elder Mr. 
 Baylis carried on the manufacture of lampblack on the premises, and 
 the peculiar process was the cause of no little consternation among 
 the simple country folk when introduced among them, giving rise to 
 suspicions of dealings with familiar spirits of the weird " black art." 
 
 James' term of engagement in Quebec was short, but his carefully 
 preserved letter of recommendation to future employers shows that 
 his was " honorable discharge." He came to Montreal, and was at 
 
once called upon to assume the duties of a good citizen by taking up 
 the defence of both new Queen and country In the call to arms of 
 the loyalists of '37. Fortunately, his share of the fighting was con- 
 flnt d to repel! inj,' the attacks of Jack Frost on the Home Guard doing 
 cold seutry-go, and assis>ting to allay the panic which threatened the 
 breasts of many of Montreal b hurriedly assembled defenders. 
 
 He early formed the connection as clerk with the old firm of Robert 
 CamiJ jell & Co., Importers of dry goods, carpets, etc., which he re- 
 tained in various capacities up to partner, until, in 1859, he severed 
 his connection to establish himself in the new departure of an ex- 
 clusive carpet business both in Montreal and Toronto. His sterling 
 reputation even then stood him better than large capital with English 
 manufacturers, who were liberal in proffers of all needed credit, and 
 it was his life-boast that every penny then and after thus supplied 
 in goods was fully paid in cash. The Toronto branch was eventually 
 given up, and resources and ener;^y concentrated in Montreal. In 
 1876 the partnership of James Baylls & Son was formed, which con- 
 tinued till, in 1896, his failing health determined him to seek rest in 
 retirement, and the expediency of continuing the business not being 
 apparent, the firm was voluntarily wound up by mutual agreement. 
 His active and optimistic nature, unfortunately, however, led him 
 into large railway enterprises in the seventies, which are now the 
 success for others his best efforts and highest hopes failed to ensure 
 to him ; and the Huron and Ontario Ship Canal project, in which he 
 was earlier associated with the original promoters, who were com- 
 pelled to abandon it, is even now among the possibilities for the 
 betterment of Canada's trade highways. 
 
 Mr. Baylis early identified himself with movements for the good of 
 the community, and took part in their public discussion, his life story 
 being bound up with that of his loved city. Among his first efforts 
 was a resolution proposed to his fellow-members of the Mechanics' 
 Institute in the early forties, welcoming the then newly-arrived Gov- 
 ernor-General, and he was one of the moving spirits in the agitation 
 about the same time for the early closing of shops at eight o'clock (!) 
 and the then startling innovation of the Saturday half-holiday. 
 
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 The Independent character of the Congregational body dPtermined 
 his church connection, and he attached himself to " Old ' lun," fol- 
 lowing all its vicissitudes of riot, fire and eecession, from small 
 beginnings in St. Maurice Street, under the Rev. Henry Wilkes, to 
 flnal dismemberment on Beaver Hall Hill at the close of the Rev. 
 Mr. Bray's meteoric pastorate, when he formed congenial and lasting 
 connection with the American Presbyterian Church. 
 
 The Temperance Cause first had his support at a time when attach- 
 ment thereto was often maintained at the cost of the sympathy of 
 those near and dear, and his last public act was to join the national 
 deputation of the Dominion Alliance — of which he was one time and 
 for long the Treasurer — which waited on the Government at Ottawa, 
 in the fall of 18^8, respecting action on the result ol the Prohibition 
 Plebiscite. 
 
 Among other public movements, Mr. Baylis was closely associated 
 with the lute Juooph Douire, Q.C... aud the othur det'uuders of the 
 celebrated (Juibord case, aud was treasurer of the fund. He was one 
 of the promoters of the recent agitation resulting in the formation 
 of a titizciiis' Cummittte for the abolition of the Quebec Commercial 
 Tax, aud joint-treasurer of the fund ; and, a long-time member of 
 the Board of Trade, he some years ago consented to be nominated to 
 a seat ou the Council as reprcseutative of the retail trade, but failed 
 of the support necessary to elect. He did not seek municipal honors, 
 knowiUR well the saciilice of time aud meaus this involved for one 
 atteniptiug to do his whole duty. He regarded public otfice as a 
 public trufct, aud had intense hatred of every form of " boodiing " 
 in public aud private business. In politics, whils on principle a 
 Liberal, he was no bliud partizan, proving his independence on more 
 than one occasion by voting against his party when their stand on 
 broad public Questions would not square with his views of right and 
 justice. He was on one occasion tendered the nomination for the 
 County of Argenteuil in the combined interest of the Liberal party 
 and the Temperance cause, but, notwithstanding infiueniial urging, 
 did not see that his business engagements would permit his follow- 
 ing his taste and bent into a field for which his gifts of careful 
 
deliberation and convincing speecli well fitted him. He was one of 
 the founders of the Young Men's Christian Association, lovingly 
 watching its growth from the acorn to the present spreading pro- 
 portions, and holding high ofEce in the gift of fellow-members. He 
 was a charter meriber of the Montreal Homeopathic Association, 
 seeing its work develop from a handful of adherents to an influential 
 clien^fele supporting a dozen or more practitioners and a well-equipped 
 little hospital, of which he was one of the Governors. Last, but far 
 from least in his thought and plans, was his long connection as Vice- 
 President with the Boys' Home Corporation, which he saw rise from 
 the small beginning at which he assisted 30 years ago into the im- 
 portant and well-sustained work in -v^hich it is now engaged. 
 
 He was twice maiTied, his first wife being Miss Jessie McCormack, 
 who. with their two children, all died within a few weeks in the fall 
 of 1850. In 1853 he married Sarah Jane, daughter of the late Samuel 
 Mathewson, and of their eight children, two sons and three daughters, 
 with their mother, suindve him. He passed peacefully aT"^ay, after a 
 brief illness, in the enjoyment of the respect of his commercial 
 associates, the confidence of his co-laborers in religious and philan- 
 thropic work, the esteiem of friends, and the love of kin, in the sure 
 f aitli that : 
 
 " There Is no death ! What seems so Is transition. 
 This} life of mortal breath 
 Is bat a suburb of the life elysian 
 Whose portal we call Death." 
 
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