Biography
He was educated at Strathroy Collegiate Institute.
In 1893 he went to British Columbia where he taught school in Sidney BC.
He was a real estate salesman in Victoria becoming senior partner in a Victoria company.
In 1901 he married Lucy Chaworth Musters of Comox BC. After the war in 1920 he was appointed as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University.
He received honorary LLD degrees from Cambridge, McGill, Toronto, New York, Acadia, Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, Princeton, McMaster, Dartmouth, Vermont, Western, British Columbia, Middlebury, Harvard, Queen's, Union
Military Service
He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia rising from the ranks to command the 5th Canadian Garrison Artillery.
He was mobilized in 1914 and given command of the Vancouver Highland Battalion in the First Canadian Contingent.
He was appointed as a Colonel. After the Battle of St. Julien he was promoted as Brigadier in command of a brigade.
He was appointed as a Major General 1916 in command of the First Canadian Division.
He was appointed as a Lieutenant General in 1917 and succeeded Sir Julian Byng as commanding General of the Canadian Corps. After the Armistice he commanded Canadian forces on the Rhine. On his return to Canada he was Inspector General 1919.
Named Features
Mount Currie (BC)
References
- Putnam, W.L. and G.W. Boles, R.W. Laurilla (1990)
- Howay, F.W. (1914)
