. Beck came from an enterprising immigrant family of builders and makers. In 1829 Frederick and Barbara Beck had emigrated from the Grand Duchy of Baden (Germany) to upstate New York, and then had moved to

GALT, GEORGE FREDERICK, businessman, athlete, and office holder; b. 1

Tassie*’s school in Galt (Cambridge). In 1864 he graduated from the University of Toronto with an llb, was called to the bar, and started practice in Stratford with

–17, much of the work had to be delegated to Kemp’s co-commissioners, George Frederick Galt

direct postgraduate research. They included Harold Hibbert*, Frederick Murray

* at the grammar school in Galt (Cambridge), Ryerson entered Trinity Medical School in Toronto, where he obtained an mb