SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE

         JAMES HEPBURN.         

         
   James Hepburn, Superintendent of the Government Employment
Service of Canada, served his country gallantly during the Great war
and was so seriously injured that his right arm had to be amputated.
He is one of the most popular men in government service in Prince Al-
bert.  He was born in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in November,
1891, a son of James and Mary (McNaughton) Hepburn, likewise natives
of Scotland. The father was in the plumbing business in his native coun-
try until 1909, when he brought his family to Canada and located in
Prince Albert. He accepted a position with the city and is now super-
tegrity and is highly esteemed.
   The public schools of Moffat afforded James Hepburn a part of his
education and subsequently he attended the Moffat Academy.  After
leaving school he became an employe of the Union Bank of Scotland, re-
maining with this bank until 1909, when he came to Prince Albert with
his parents. In 1912 he was employed in a private bank here and then
for one and one-half years worked in the Dominion Lands office.  In
1915 he put all personal interests aside and enlisted in the Fifty-third
Battalion.  He went overseas in the spring of 1916 and three months
later was transferred to the Forty-sixth Battalion.  During the engage-
ment in Regina trench, at the Somme front, he was seriously wounded,
and was confined to a hospital in France for three weeks and for two
and one-half months was in a hospital at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Eng-
land. In the bed next to him in that hospital was a former resident of
Prince Albert, at one time a member of the Royal North West Mounted
Police, who was then sergeant major with the Australian forces.  Sub-
sequently Mr. Hepburn was transferred to a hospital at Ramsgate, where
he remained for one month, and was then brought home to Canada and
placed in the hospital at Whitby, Ontario, from which he was removed
to the Toronto Hospital and he received his honorable discharge in Dc-
cember, 1917.  He immediately returned to Prince Albert and resumed
his duties in the Dominion Land office until October, 1919, when he was
appointed to his present position as superintendent of the government
employment service. He has proven himself the right man for this place
and the efficiency with which he meets every demand made upon him has
been a dominant factor in his success.
   Mr. Hepburn is musically inclined and plays the cornet in the local
band, of which he was vice president for one year. He is a member of
the Electic Club and the Great War Veterans Association. Fraternally
he is identified with the Masons, holding membership in Kinistino Lodge,
No.1. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church.
         

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