Date Published:
January 2006

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

Henry Johnston Elliott, K.C.

Of Elliott & David, 189 St. James Street, Montreal; Director, Cluett, Peabody & Co., Ltd.; Perrin, Kayser & Co., Ltd.; Dent, Allcroft & Co., Ltd.; A. B. See Electric Elevator Co.; Colonial Marine Underwriters, Ltd.; Jop Shipping Corporation, New York. Born Montreal, Oct. 20, 1874, son of the late Henry and Eliza (Sharpe) Elliott. Educated: Montreal High School and McGill University. Called to the Quebec Bar, 1898; created K.C., 1908. Secretary, Montreal Bar Association, 1902-03; Counsellor, Montreal Bar Association, 1909-10; Treasurer, Montreal Bar Association, 1918-19; Present Counsellor, Canadian Bar Association; Commissioner for all the Provinces of Canada and the United States. The firm represent, as Counsel, the following: The Montreal Star Publishing Company, the Reid Newfoundland Railway Company; the Bank of Hamilton; The Standard Bank; the De Laval Company, Ltd.; the American News Company, Ltd.; Benson & Hedges (Canada) Limited; The Town of St. Lambert; the Canadian Credit Men's Trust Association of Canada; the James Robertson Co., Ltd.; Merchants Association of Montreal; Warren Bros. Asphalt Company of Boston, Mass.; Dent, Allcroft & Co., Ltd.; Matthew Moody & Sons Company; the Mennen Co., Ltd.; Canadian McArthur Concrete Pile & Foundation Co., Ltd.; Massey-Harris Co., Ltd.; Autographic Register Systems, Limited. Clubs: The Engineers; Club Canadien de Montreal; Old Colony; Canadian (New York); Kiwanis. Anglican. Residence: 65 Chesterfield Ave., Westmount, Que.

Source: Prominent People of the Province of Quebec, 1923-24, Montreal, Biographical Society of Canada, Limited, undated and unpaginated.