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Sir William Mackenzie--A Pen PictureOME time ago I fell in with Vic Long, the artist, a man who has clone in oils nearly every big Canadian between Halifax and Victoria. In the course of our chat Long gave me some inside information regarding his work. He told me how easy it was to paint portraits of some of our big fellows and how difficult it was to handle others.1 asked Long how he got along with Sir William .Mackenzie.'Sir Wiliam, said Long, is one of the brightest men I have ever met and the most difficult to 'git.'I went down to the City Hall Thursday morning to get a good look at Sir William and to size him up at close range, to shake hands with him, talk with him and rub shoulders with him as the saying is. Sir William is a real man, of that there is little doubt. All of us in the room— Mayor MacBeath, City Clerk McQueen, the aldermen, J. Edward Norcross, and Pinkie McKelvie, who does the job for the PROVINCE—were aware that a man of some trifling importance in the world was present with us when Sir William stepped over the threshold.
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Vancouver Standard
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Dec 16, 1916
Page 4
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