<P> In 1903 he married Mary Gwendolen Solomon, the only child of Sir Richard Solomon, at Pretoria, Transvaal . Their only child was Richard Desire Girouard (1905--1989), who is the father of Mark Girouard, the writer and architectural historian . </P> <P> Mount Girouard, which is located in the Bow River Valley south of Lake Minnewanka, Fairholme Range, in Banff National Park, Alberta . was named in his honour in 1904 . Latitude 51; 14; 15, longitude 115; 24; 05 . </P> <P> The Girouard Academic Building at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, was named in his honour in 1977 . A plaque honouring Sir Edouard Percy Cranwill Girouard 1867--1932 was erected in 1985 by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in a breezeway between the Girouard and Sawyer Buildings at the Royal Military College of Canada "Born in Montréal, Girouard was educated at Royal Military College, Kingston, commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1888, and appointed to the Royal Arsenal Railways at Woolwich . Charged in 1896 with construction of the Wadi Halfa--Khartoum Railway, he was later director of railways in South Africa and as high commissioner in Northern Nigeria superintended the building of a line to Kano . Governor of Northern Nigeria (1908--9), of East Africa (1909--12), and director general of munitions supply in the British government (1915--16), he also wrote several books on the strategic importance of railways ." </P>

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