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=Workman, Mark= (Montreal, Que.), was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on August 4, 1864, the son of Isaac and Sarah (Rosenthal) Workman. He received his education in the public schools, and came to Montreal with his father in 1876, joining with him in the clothing business. The lad became the head of the business in 1880, at the remarkably youthful age of sixteen years. With unusual business instinct and untiring industry, the young Workman piloted his enterprise along the course of steady growth until, in 1906, the company of which he remained head was incorporated, and expanded until its travellers covered the whole of Canada, from Atlantic to Pacific. For nearly twenty years now (1917) the Mark Workman Company has been contractors for the British and Canadian Governments for military clothing, and has been responsible for many enormous contracts during the present war. Beyond the confines of his own business, Mr. Workman also found scope for his enterprise and ability. He interested himself extensively in Canadian industry, notably the Dominion Steel Corporation, of which he is one of the largest shareholders and was elected President in 1916. Endowed with foresight and courage, attributes which helped to raise him to his enviable position in the business world, he believed that the formation of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company, with its adjunct, the Dominion Coal Company, would not only open the way for a gigantic steel enterprise in Canada which would take care of the big domestic business in the Dominion, but also extend to other parts of the Empire and to foreign countries. He believed in the future of the undertaking, invested money in it, fought it successfully through the dark days of its early experience, and won out. In 1911 he became a director of the Corporation, and his active interest in the management resulted in his being made chairman of the finance and selling committees of the directorate. Mr. Workman is also the Vice-President of the Federal Parquetry Company, of Lexington, Ky.; vice-president of the Jacobs Asbestos Company, Ltd., of Thetford Mines, Que., and is interested in the B. Gardner Company, of Montreal. While the success that came to Mr. Workman brought him great wealth and influence, his business activities did not prevent a generous and personal interest in many charitable works, his yearly benefactions to worthy causes and individuals being estimated at fifty to sixty thousand dollars. He is a life Governor of the Montreal General Hospital and other hospitals and charitable institutions, to the funds of which he is a liberal contributor. He has given most generously to the Patriotic Fund and to the various regimental funds, and was a subscriber to the extent of $200,000 to the Canadian War Loan. Mr. Workman is also prominent in philanthropic work among the Jewish population of Canada and is president and actual upbuilder of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium for fighting the white plague. A sample of his deep interest in the race was his remarkable response to the appeal of Mr. Leopold Rothschild since the outbreak of the war on behalf of Jewish sufferers in Russia. Mr. Workman forwarded an immediate cash contribution of $5,000, with an appended offer to supplement that gift by the subscription of $1,000 per month. Mr. Workman married, when twenty years of age, Miss Rachel Lewis, of Syracuse, N.Y., on February 18, 1886. He has one son, Edward, a Lieut. in the Canadian overseas army, and four daughters, Mrs. Nathan Gordon, of Montreal; Mrs. Harry Rosenthal, of Ottawa, and the Misses Nina and Daisy Workman. He is a member of the Masonic and the Royal Guardians.