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Montreal Water and Power Company a fifty million gallon filtration plant
at a cost of $6oo,ooo; a sewerage and waterworks contract for the town of St.
Louis, P.Q., now St. Louis Ward of Montreal; paved extensively in Montreal;
erected a traffic bridge over the Richelieu River, between St. Johns and Iberville,
P.Q.; constructed two 51-inch pipe lines for the City of Ottawa, known as the
Ottawa Overland Pipe Line; successfully completed extensive Montreal Tramways
work; and have just erected a stone-crushing plant, capable of crushing 4,000
tons of stone daily, and built a filtration plant for the city of St. Johns, P.Q.
The story of Mr. Leitch's rise to his present eminent position in the industrial
world makes interesting reading, and should serve as an incentive to ambitious
Canadian youth. He received his education in the public schools and the Cornwall
High School, and later graduated from the Belleville Business College. He im-
mediately accepted a position with the Moffitt, Hodgins & Clark Company, of
Syracuse, New York, where he remained for five years. In 1892 he was offered
and accepted the position of Superintendent of Construction for the Montreal
Water and Power Company, retiring from that position in 1903 to organise the
Laurin & Leitch Engineering and Construction Company. Mr. Leitch is regarded
as essentially the practical member of the firm, and his judgment is
unreservedly accepted by the company in tendering on contracts involving
huge amounts.
The mother of Mr. Leitch was Nicholas Brydon, and his wife's maiden name
Mary Cashion. He is the father of two sons and one daughter. One son saw
active service at the front during the great war, serving his King and Country.
In politics he is a Conservative, and of Scotch extraction. Mr. Leitch is a
brother of the late Judge James Leitch, formerly a member of the Ontario Railway
Commission.
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