From "The Monctonians, Volume 2" by J.E. Belliveau
Chapter 11
"If the 19th Century had been Moncton's years of trading, shipbuilding and railroad develpment, the first thirty years of th 20th were it promotional years. And if two men typified the characteristics of those decades they were Clifford William Robinson and Mathew Lodge"
"In their maturity, they were gentlemen of the old school, quiet-spoken, conservatiely yet stylishly dressed. They were of good physical stature, strong and active in their occupations until they died."
"Matt Lodge was born in Cumberland County, N.S., in 1858 and begins to come to attention in the city's develpment and as a curler in the late 1890"s. He was a member of the famous Flatiron Gang of young men, almost all of whom became prominent in civil life and met evey New Year's until the last member was gone. By 1901, Lodge was secretary-treasurer of the New Brunswick Petroleum Co,, later Maritime Oilfields Ltd. Like Robinson he was an early shareholder in "The Transcript". . . "
"Mathew Lodge attended the local Southampton school, went to the normal school in Truro, then Mount Allison University. He came to Moncton as an accountant for The Moncton Sugar Refining Co., was then with the Moncton Gas, Light & Water Company where he came to know all the local entrepreneurs and investors. Afterward, he contracted for construction of a branch railway line and then went into mining in various parts of Canada and the United States. In Oklahoma he learned about gas and oil."
"He was returning from Edinburgh where he had been on a business trip connected with the tidal power project when he had a stroke on the liner Cargaric. As it reached Father Point, near Rimouski, Mrs Lodge went aboard and Sir Henry Thornton, president of the C.N.R., provided a special railway car to bring the stricken man to his home. It was there in his house on Mountain Road (then called Union Street) that he "ended a career of wonderful activity. His life, one editorial said, had been 'an enrichment to the country and to Moncton'."
States he had one son, Mathew Cabot Lodge of Montreal.
Many further detail on his business accomplishments in the book.
Greg
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