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Better know a Canadian functionary: the Superintendent of Bankruptcy

The federal government of Canada first established bankruptcy regulations under the Insolvency Act of 1869. It was repealed in 1880, when Parliament chose to give the power to regulate bankruptcy to the provinces, only to take it back almost 40 years later by passing the Bankruptcy Act of 1919. Once the Depression hit, bankruptcies increased sharply, and the Act was amended in 1932 to create a Superintendent of Bankruptcy, with the power to license trustees in bankruptcy and ensure the competent and equitable carrying out of bankruptcy proceedings in Canada.

Before 1969, bankruptcy was a domain of the Department of Justice. It was moved to the Department of Consumer & Corporate Affairs in 1969, then to the Department of Industry in 1993.

The Superintendents of Bankruptcy of Canada have been:

W.J. Reilly, 1932-46
E.H. Coleman, 1946-47
Robert Forsyth, 1947-49
Thomas D. Macdonald, 1949-50
A.J. MacLeod, 1950-54
A.H.M. Laidlaw, 1954-55
J.S. Larose, 1955-65
Roger Tassé, 1965-68
Raymond Landry, 1968-79
Jacques B. Brazeau, 1979-82
Yves Pigeon, 1982-90
Walter Clare, 1990-91
George Redling, 1991-97
Marc Mayrand, 1997-2007
James Callon, 2007-2011
William James, 2011-now

Better know a Canadian functionary: the Master of the Mint

In 1908, the Royal Mint of the UK opened the Ottawa Mint to mint coins for use in Canada, in the fine castle-like stone building on Sussex Drive that it occupies to this day. (Before that, Canadian coins had been minted in Birmingham, in England, since the Canadian dollar was established in 1858.)

By 1911 the Mint started refining gold, although it would not have the facilities to refine silver until 2006. The Royal Canadian Mint became independent of the Royal Mint in 1931 and became a Crown Corporation in 1969, with its facilities for producing everyday pocket change moved to a new factory in Winnipeg in 1976. The title of the Master of the Mint has been held by its CEO since 1969.

The Masters of the Ottawa Mint and the Royal Canadian Mint have been:

James Bonar 1908-19
Arthur H.W. Cleave 1919-25
John Honeyford Campbell 1925-37
Henry Edward Ewart 1938-44
Alfred Percy Williams (acting) 1946-47
Walter Clifton Ronson 1947-53
Alfred Percy Williams 1953-59
Norval Alexander Parker 1959-68
E.F. Brown (acting) 1968-70
Gordon Ward Hunter 1970-75
Yvon Gariepy 1975-81
D.M. Cudahy (acting) 1981-82
James C. Corkery 1982-86
M.A.J. Lafontaine 1986-93
M.R. Hubbard 1993-94
Danielle Wetherup 1994-2002
Emmanuel Triassi (acting) 2002-03
David “Entitled to My Entitlements” Dingwall 2003-05
Marguerite Nadeau (acting) 2005-06
Ian E. Bennett 2006-now