THE CANADIAN LAW TIMES EDITED BY CHARLES ELLIOTT, B.A., LL.B., VOLUME XXX. 1910 STANFORD LIBRARY TORONTO: THE CARSWELL COMPANY, LIMITED 1910 VOL. XXX. JANUARY, 1910. No. 1. E. P. DAVIS, K.C. It is an unusual thing in a Canadian province to find one man so admittedly at the head of his profession that he is not regarded as having a rival. But the unusual has certainly occurred to the legal profession in British Columbia, where Mr. E. P. Davis, K.C., by universal acknowledg ment is easily leader' of the Bar. Mr. Davis, who is fifty years of age, is a native of King, York county, Ontario, and is of United Empire Loyalist stock. After passing through Upper Canada College, of which he was head boy in 1878, he was entered as a student at Toronto University, from which he was graduated in 1882. While at the University Mr. Davis displayed that enormous capacity for work which has distinguished his subsequent career. He took a triple honour course, was awarded the Lorne silver medal in 1880, and the Lorne gold medal in 1881 for general proficiency, and captured the Blake scholarship in 1882. If he possessed an almost unlimited capacity for work, his capacity for play was hardly less great, and in most of the students' pranks which occurred during his undergraduateship, some of them memorable ones, he took a prominent part. In one of these escapades in 1882, he was, indeed, so conspicuous that he came near to being expelled from the University, and, together with Mr. F. C. Wade, and some others, was cited to appear before a special session of the council. In fact, he did not obtain his standing as a graduate until some months after degrees were conferred, when his case was considered and determined at a special meeting of the senate. After leaving the University Mr. Davis went to Chicago for a year, where he studied law, and then to Winnipeg in May of 1883. There he entered the office of Bain, Blanchard VOL. XXX. C.L.T.—1 |