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The Consummate Canadian

A Biography of Samuel Edward Weir Q.C.

Mary Willan Mason

Natural Heritage Books

The Consummate Canadian

Mary Willan Mason

Published by Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc.

P.O. Box 95, Station O,

Toronto, Ontario M4A 2M8

Copyright©1999 The Weir Foundation

All Rights Reserved

No portion of this book with the exception of brief extracts for the purpose of literary review, may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publisher.

Design by Derek Chung Tiam Fook

Colour Separations by Colour Innovations, Toronto, Ontario Printed and bound in Canada by Hignell Printing Limited, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Mason, Mary Willan,

The consummate Canadian : a biography of Samuel Edward Weir Q.C.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-896219-40-3 (bound) ISBN 1-896219-38-1 (pbk.)

1. Weir, Samuel E. (Samuel Edward), 1898-1981. 2. Weir, Samuel E. (Samuel Edward), 1898-1981 — Art collections. 3. Art, Canadian. 4. Art, Modern — 19th century — Canada. 5. Art — Collectors and collecting — Ontario — Niagara-on-the-Lake — Biography. 6. Lawyers — Ontario — Niagara-on-the-Lake — Biography. I. Title.

N5230.C22W45 1998 709’.2 C98-931048-5

Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc. acknowledges the support received for its publishing program from the Canada Council Block Grant Program. We also acknowledge with gratitude the assistance of the Association for the Export of Canadian Books, Ottawa.