predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date death_place party birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
thomas george roddick canadian walter george mitchell montreal , canada east st. antoine 31 march 1954 montreal , quebec conservative 27 june 1863 1904 herbert brown ames.png herbert ames
 1921 sir herbert brown ames
herbert ames

sir herbert brown ames -lrb- june 27 , 1863 -- march 31 , 1954 -rrb- was a canadian businessman , philanthropist and politician .
ames was born in montreal as the only son of evan fisher ames -lrb- who founded the shoe manufacturer ames , holden & company in 1856 -rrb- and caroline matilda brown .
ames inherited the family shoe company and later worked in insurance but used much of his fortune to help the poor and fight corruption .
he received a bachelor of arts degree from amherst college in 1885 .
he helped organize the volunteer electoral league and became alderman -lrb- city councillor -rrb- in montreal in 1898 and served until 1906 .
he became a member of parliament in 1904 as a member of the conservative party of canada , and served until 1920 .
in 1919 he served as a financial director for the league of nations .
he is best known for his book `` the city below the hill : a sociological study of a portion of the city of montreal , canada '' , which originally appeared in the form of newspaper articles in the `` montreal star '' in 1897 .
the book offered a sociological and statistical analysis of the conditions of the poor people in griffintown and pointe-saint-charles , just south of downtown montreal .
ames was an avid philanthropist and funded a 39 unit apartment housing complex on william street between shannon and ann for the poor called diamond court -lrb- see image -rrb- .
it has since been demolished .
he died in montreal in 1954 , and is buried , along with his wife in the north head cemetery located behind the anglican church on grand manan island , new brunswick .
the herbert-brown-ames park in montreal is named in his honour .
