About Herbert Brown Ames Sir Herbert Brown Ames, 1863-1954, a progressive businessman and social reformer, was a Montreal alderman from 1898 to 1906, a Conservative MP from 1904 to 1920, and later a Canadian delegate to the League of Nations. Books by Herbert Brown Ames The City Below The Hill The Slums of Montreal, 1897 by (author) Herbert Brown Ames introduction by Paul Rutherford