FOSTER, SIR GEORGE EULAS ), Canadian statesman, was born in New Brunswick Sept. 3, 1847. Educated in New Brunswick, Edinburgh and Heidelberg, he took up teach ing in Canada. In 1882 he entered the Canadian Parliament as Conservative member for New Brunswick, and in 1885 became Minister of Marine and Fisheries. From 1888-96 he was Min ister of Finance. In the Borden administration of 1911 he was Minister of Trade and Commerce, retaining the portfolio in the Union Govt. of 1917, in which year he was summoned to the Senate. He was a great advocate of preferential trade within the Empire, and in 1903 made a series of speeches in England in support of Mr. Chamberlain's policy. Sworn of the Imperial Privy Council in 1916, he was in the same year appointed one of Great Britain's four representatives at the Economic Conference at Paris. In 1918 Foster was created K.C.M.G., and he repre sented Canada at the Peace Conference, 1919, at the first as sembly of the League of Nations in 1921, when he was elected a vice-president, and at the 7th and 9th assemblies, 1926 and 1929.