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Note that Jacob Mahew's and Wilhelmina Margretta Kosmack's birth registrations are sequential and on the same date. This is not their dates of birth, but the date they were reported to the registrar. This is an interesting coincidence considering that they were later married.²⁴

Jacob Mayhew - August 3, 1874 - September 18, 1907. Jacob was an early resident of Haileybury. He was born in Northcote in Renfrew County and living in Admaston when he married Welhelmine M. [Minnie] Kosmack on February 19, 1896. Minnie died on May 26, 1896 at age 23 in childbirth. A week later the child also died. After his wife's death, Jacob went to Dacre and entered into business for Mr. Samuel McDougall. While there he married for the 2nd time to Orpha Hunter and moved back to Northcote. He finally settled in Haileybury in 1903. He was an agent for the J.R. Booth lumber interests in the North and became a prosperous resident of that town. He died in Haileybury and is buried in the old Cemetery there. It is interesting to note that one of the pall bearers at his funeral was, Charles Cobald Farr, the founder of Haileybury.²¹

MAYHEW
In Northcote, on Thursday 19th inst., Annie Elizabeth, daughter of the late Lewis Mayhew, in the 21st year of her age. Funeral on Friday at one o'clock, to the Admaston Cemetery.¹⁰

"Annie Elizabeth Mayhew, born February 7, 1880, daughter of the late "Lewis" Mayhew passed away on Thursday, September 19, 1901 at the age of 21. Her parents (sic) were both so sick they couldn't attend the funeral."

Note that her obituary indicates that her father had already passed away.⁴

The registration listed the following official witnesses: Annie E Mayhew. His parent(s) were listed as Levi Beach and Margaret Shaw. Her parents were listed as Louis Mayhew and Sara Pierce.¹²

Survivor(s): Logan Mayhew and Jean Lawrason.⁴

MAYHEW, Robt. W. -- Real estate agent, of R. W. Mayhew & Co, 816 First St. W., Calgary, Alta. Born Renfrew, Ont. Oct 13, 1881, son of Charles and Sarah Mayhew. Educ. Renfrew Collegiate and Queen's College, Kingston, Ont. Commenced business career n Calgary in 1903. Entered real estate business in 1904. Also interested in Ashcroft and Nevis Coal Lands. Married Grace G. Logan, High Gate, Ontario, 1908. Recreations: motoring and golf. Clubs and Societies: A.F. & A.M; Ranchman's, Calgary. Address 505 Second Ave. W., Calgary, Alta.¹³

People on Parliament Hill
by F. C. Mears
Born at Cobden, Ontario, 70 years ago and given his secondary education at Renfrew, Fisheries Minister Robert Mayhew is a product of the Ottawa Valley. His first venture into the west, where he was eventually to develop a large and lucrative business, was soon after matriculation in the Renfrew Collegiate. His avowed object was to move nearer the sunset so that he might make enough money with which to attend college in the east.

Railway travel across the continent in those days we, to say the least, different. Bob Mayhew climbed into a colonist car, many of his fellow travelers being Chinese. There were no wicker chairs then, he recalls, "just the straight slat seats and they couldn't be called soft or comfortable." His dream of money for education was doomed to be shattered, for he contracted typhoid fever in the west and returned east a year later.

Returned West
He did, though, manage to get himself a year at Queen's University, then a few months in this federal capital employed as a clerk in the Lindsay store at the munificent salary of $12.50 a week. That gave him a push-off and he again succumbed to the urge to have a part in the life of the west, this time stopping at Calgary, where he engaged in the business of real estate and insurance.

At the request of persons in Edmonton Mr. Mayhew made a report on some land north of Edmonton and in an area close to where oil has recently gushed. After reporting on some of this land, he himself sold some, and made his first profitable investment. Not until 1914 did he reach the Pacific Cost and the city of Victoria, where he has spent the remainder of his life.

There was a constructive bent in this highly successful business man. In his first try he manufactured roofing, buying the felt mostly at Porneuf on the St Lawrence River. It was a long way to transport such a raw material, so is (sic) wasn't long before he began to make his own felt, with which he manufactured roofing, but he didn’t stop there. For soon he started the manufacture of wood pulp, this leading him in to the production of paper board, and, he admits, he ended up with "a nice business."

Entered House in 1937
Mr. Mayhew made his first bow to the House of Commons after a successful be-election in November, 1937, and in the three succeeding general elections he also came out on top. He was first appointed Minister of Fisheries in June 1948, and when Mr. St. Laurent took over as prime minister he was appointed to the fisheries portfolio. In the fall of 1948, and after the general election of June, 1949, Mr. Mayhew found himself still with that portfolio.

In the past two years Mr. Mayhew has twice crossed the Pacific, first with Veterans Affairs Minister Lester Pearson to the Commonwealth parley in Ceylon and later to the conference in Australia. It was on the first of the two trips that he had a chance to make a first hand, though brief study of conditions in Southeast Asia and China, and he asserts now that an important and workable plan has been developed to help the people of China and Southeast Asia to raise their standard of living.

"I'm wholeheartedly in favor of the scheme already outlined by Britain's acting chancellor, Mr. Galskell," says Mr. Mayhew.

Repeating arguments used many times by Sir John Boyd Orr, Mr. Mayhew declares, "there cannot be peace in Asia where are a third of the world's people and where a lamentable large proportion of these are always hungry. Some contend that Asia cannot be helped to raise its ways of living, that the task is too big. I don't agree with that, neither can any of those who believe that international co-operation will eventually remove causes of friction and wars."

Lacks Mechanical Aids
Asia, Mr. Mayhew says, has a tremendous store of human power, but it does lack mechanical aids. All of them could not be supplied with tractors and other labor-saving devices, and even if these were possible it might not be desirable, but the Asiatic people should certainly be better provided with food from America in the years of ruined harvests. That in itself would be a tremendous help to morale, as well as to health. Still another way to help those teeming millions would be to supply them with the means for flood control, for floods have done more damage than drought.

Mr. Mayhew's immediate responsibility is the Fisheries Department whose chief functions are the conservation and development of Canada's fishery resources, both sea and inland. Fish inspection and the education of inland Canadians to give fish a bigger place on their menu are jobs of the department.

It is explained by Mr. Mayhew that this year's reorganization of the department has placed protection and development of fisheries under the department of conservation service which also operates a number of hatcheries, restocks waters in areas where there is Dominion authority, and also takes care of stream improvement. As between the Dominion and the provinces there is a division of administrative but not legislative authority over fisheries.

Even at 70, Mr. Mayhew displays a remarkable capacity for work. There is nothing demonstrative about this man from the Pacific Coast. Even though most of the people from beyond the Rockies hold it pays to advertise in Parliament as elsewhere, but his business wisdom goes far in these parts. He can be counted on to take care of the nation's fisheries until after the next election, and in the meantime he has established a solid claim to respect and favor.¹⁴

Robert Wellington Mayhew, PC (October 13, 1880 – July 28, 1971) was a Canadian politician and diplomat.


Born in Cobden, Ontario, the son of Charles Mayhew and Sarah Dunlop Mayhew, he bought the Sidney Rubber Roofing Co. Ltd. in 1912 which became one of Victoria's largest businesses.


He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Victoria in a 1937 by-election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1940, 1945, and 1949. From 1945 to 1948, he was the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Finance. From 1948 to 1952, he was the Minister of Fisheries. From 1952 to 1954, he was the first Canadian Ambassador to Japan.


In 1951, in San Francisco, along with the honorable M Pearson, he signed, on behalf of Canada, the Peace Treaty with Japan.


In 1966, he was awarded the City of Victoria's Freedom of the City, the highest award given by the city, for "eminent public service".


He married Grace Logan in 1908 and had three children. His only daughter, Jean Edwards Mayhew, married to James Alexander Lawrason, died January 5, 2006 in Peterborough, Ontario.¹⁸

Rev. C. A. Ferguson received a telegram Saturday afternoon announcing the death of his cousin, Miss Jessie Mayhew, Renfrew.⁹

A SAD ERRAND.-- Mr J.F. Joyce, of Sault Ste. Marie, came back this time last year (sic?) on a sad mission, bringing back for burial in Admaston his sister-in-law, Miss Jessie Mayhew. This year, on the same day, he came back to place in the Admaston cemetery all that was mortal of his little daughter Jessie; the funeral taking place on Sunday afternoon.⁸

Wedding
The home of Mrs Thos. Plaunt, Sr., Northcote, was the scene of a very pleasing event on Wednesday afternoon, 19th inst., when Maggie S. Plaunt was united in marriage to Mr. C. W. Mayhew, also of that place. The day was bright, the sun smiling upon the bridal party as they took their places on the lawn in front of the house at 3:30; while Mrs. J.A. Plaunt played the wedding march. Mr. X. Plaunt gave the bride away, and she was accompanied by Miss Lucy Mayhew, her bridesmaid, while Mr. T. Gibbons did the duties of best man. The bride looked pretty in blue poplin, trimmed with white brocaded silk, and white applique with a drop yoke of white brocaded silk. The bridesmaid was similarly attired. Rev. D. H. Hodges pronounced the solemn words which made the two one. After the congratulations about sixty guests sat down to tables laden with good things and tastily decorated with flowers, etc. There was music at intervals, and after a very sociable time the bridal party and many of the friends drove to the home of the groom, where a reception was held the same evening. The presents which were numerous, pretty and valuable, showed the esteem in which the bride was held. Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew have the best wishes of a host of friends for their future happiness.²⁸

She wrote: "Wellington Mayhew, I believe is the "same" C.W. Mayhew, who on October 19, 1904 married Maggie S. [Margaret Chartrand] Plaunt in Northcote. She is usually noted as an adopted daughter of Thomas and Ann Plaunt, but apparently she was never officially adopted although she spent most of her youth with the Plaunts and considered herself a part of the family."³²

Survivor(s): Isabel Agnes Forrest, Graham Brisco and Gerald Brisco.¹

Survivor(s): Harvey Mayhew.⁹

Death of Mrs. Mayhew
KINGSTON, Ont., Oct. 12.
Rev. George A. Brown, minister of Chalmers Presbyterian church, received a telegram telling him of the sudden death of his sister, Mrs. John A. Mayhew Renfrew. She is survived by her husband, one son in California, a son in the customs house at Renfrew, and one daughter at home.¹²