Montreal After 250 Years (Esprios Classics)

William Douw Lighthall KC FRSL FRSC (December 27 1857 - August 3 1954) often referred to as W. D. Lighthall was a Canadian lawyer historian novelist poet and philosopher. He served as mayor of Westmount from 1900 to 1903. During that time he originated and in 1901 co-founded the Union of Canadian Municipalities (now the Federation of Canadian Municipalities). He also served as vice president of the National Municipal League of America. In 1915 he founded Canada's first veterans' group the Canadian Association of Returned Soldiers. Lighthall was a member of the International Congress of Philosophy. He published in the Philosophical Review three times in the late 1920s.