{HOUSE OF COMMONS
CANADA
Leader of the opposition}
[handwritten] Personal [end handwritten]
Ottawa, December 5, 1930
His Worship
Mayor C. Mortimer Bezeau,
Kitchener, Ontario.
My dear Bezeau:
Nothing for a long time has given me quite the same pleasure as your election as Mayor of Kitchener. I like to think of you being the Chief Magistrate of the city in which I was born. It was a small town in 1874, but gave promise even them of becoming a prosperous city. Today it is outstanding among the industrial centres of our Dominion.
You know the personal interest I have always had in your life and work and the great admiration I have had for you in the high ideals of public service which you have kept constantly before you. It seems to me that you have been an exemplary citizen, and I am glad that the younger generation of Waterloo County will have before them the example you have set of useful service to the community in which they live.
I look to see you continue to play an important
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part not only in the affairs of your city and county but in our province and dominion. It will always be a source of pride to me that I have enjoyed the close friendship which I have with you ever since the days in which I was a candidate for parliament in North Waterloo. Your support at that time was a great help to me and your co-operation ever since in the work of the Party has been something for which I have felt very greatly indebted.
Among the friends who will be wishing you great success in your tenure of office there will be no one who will do so with more heartfelt sincerity than myself. I feel that the civic administration of which you are the head will be a good one and I congratulate the citizens not less warmly than yourself for the opportunity which is now yours.
My best of wishes to Mrs. Bezeau, the children, and yourself.
Believe me, as always,
very sincerely your friend,
[signed] W.L.Mackenzie King
