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Scotland has made valuable
contribution to the citizenship of Edmonton, which has derived
substantial benefit from the well directed efforts and enterprising
spirit of her stalwart sons. To this number belongs Edmond D. C.
Thomson, who has never had occasion to regret his decision to ally his
interests with those of western Canada, for success has crowned his
activities and he has established his position among the leading
chartered accountants of Edmonton. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in
1880, and his parents, William Paton and Elizabeth (Conacher) Thomson,
were also natives of that country. They were married in Glasgow and the
mother still lives in that city. The father was born in 1844 and passed
away in 1906, when sixty-two years of age.
Edmond D. C. Thomson
acquired his education in his native land, attending the public schools
and Glasgow Academy, and in 1897 he entered upon the duties of an
accountant, working for some time along that line in Scotland. Believing
that western Canada afforded better opportunities for advancement, he
severed home ties and cast in his lot with the settlers of this new and
rapidly developing country. In 1912 he established himself as a
chartered accountant in Edmonton and since 1919 has been a member of the
firm of George A. Touche & Company, with which is amalgamated the firm
of Webb, Read & Company. They also maintain offices in six other cities
of Canada, while their operations likewise extend to various parts of
the United States, England and South America. They have established an
international reputation as chartered accountants and occupy a position
of leadership in this field.
In Toronto, Ontario, on
August 23, 1913, Mr. Thomson was married to Miss Hilda Margaret Lindsay,
a daughter of Mr. J. Bowman Lindsay of Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomson have three children: Doreen Mary Lindsay; Edmond Douglas
Campbell; and William Grahame. Mr. Thomson is a member of the
Conservative Club and the Incorporation of Bonnet Makers and Dyers, both
of Glasgow, while in Edmonton he is connected with the Edmonton Club,
the Board of Trade, the Royal Curling Club, the Edmonton Golf & Country
Club, the Edmonton Garrison Badminton Club and the Canadian Club. His
religious faith is indicated by his affiliation with the Robertson
Presbyterian church. His high professional standing led to his selection
as president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta in
1920 and he is now one of its council, while he is also a member of the
Institute of Accountants and Actuaries of Glasgow, Scotland, the
National Association of Cost Accountants and the Canadian Society of
Cost Accountants. He possesses keen perceptive powers and has the
ability to state a difficult problem in its simplest and most readily
intelligible form. He has made the profession of accountancy his life
work and has gained that expert ability which is the merited reward of
industry, honesty, perseverance and the habit of painstaking
thoroughness. His life has been guided by high principles and he is
loyal to all those interests which make for honourable manhood and
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