C. HUGH MAHONEY, Q.C. KCSG.

Hugh Mahoney was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Ontario and admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada on June 19, 1947, after graduation from the University of Montreal (Loyola College) and Osgoode Hall Law School. Hugh served as an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCNVR) during the Second World War.

Hugh has continuously practiced law in the city of St. Catharines and the Niagara Peninsula area since 1950, and has participated throughout the evolution of practicing law as a "general practitioner" in law. His practice has involved both litigation and solicitor's work in the fields of real property, corporate commercial, estate administration and administrative tribunals involving planning and zoning matters.

Hugh is a former member and trustee of the St. Catharines Public School Board, and a former member and chair of the St. Catharines Public Library Board and the Board of Governors of Denis Morris High School. On February 12, 1999 Hugh was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, one of the Pontifical Equestrian Orders, by his Holiness Pope John Paul II.