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for the statements and oplnlone of the authorE of the

vartous art lo lee pr lnted' hereln.)

rNDEX

Off lcers a3d Dlrectors L9?4 . . . . . . . . . . " ' . . . " "

Flnanclal Statenent for L9?L+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . .

The Yggrf s Act lv l t leg . . . .o. . . """""o""" '

Sandy Fraser and the Falnegrs Ad,v=oggttg--by Boyce I{acGlIIlVTaJr . o .

Glengaffy Authors - by Ewan Bogs . . . . . . . . . ' . " "

lr tcCrlmmon - by Penelope l lecCrlnmon Grant .o'. .o.

A Glengarry Land, Grant - by llary BoEs-BoEs .. .. .

Trco Falr f le ld.e - by Harmon L. Benne1 o. .?. . . . . . .

A Glengarry Sett ler - by Harrlet l tacKlnnon o.r..

Dlrectors - Kenyons lt{r. John Loewen, Dunvegant O1!'Maxvll le: ldlr. Osle Vll leneuver l t laxvl] l 'eAlexand,rla: Il[r. Iorne HalI, Alexartdrla tl

Lochlel; l l l rs. Gramt l ' laeGll l ' lvrayr BB 1tDalkelth n

d Mr. Lloyd t laet{ l l len' BR 3rDalkelthLancaeter: I r { r . Phl l lp Ross-Ross, Box 2J0,

Laneaster rNr l l rs. W. 8t . Plerre, Lancaster

Charlcttenburgh: trlr. Archlbald- ltlacDonellWl l l1amstown

oFr.'rcEBs Al{D DIRECTORS 1474

past preslr lent : ! [ rs. v.F. crorsleyr RR 3, Dalkel th, ont . 525-31+l+8presldent: Urs. Duncan Grant, nn-i, Wfi i f anstown, Ont..- 92L-\2q7Vlce-Presldenti lr lr . G.E. gro,;nhaff , RR 1, Alexandrla " 525-)87?n""o"art tg secry: Mrs. J.R. Harperr-BB ) , AleXandrla " 525-LO??Correspondlng Secf y: trtrs. W.e.'Ua6K1nn6n, Box 415 i n

t25-\9-y[reasurer: f ' Ir .

- i ioyd Flactqfl ]-an, RR ), Dairelth, Ont. 8?L+'2?Lz

52?-?OL/.z527-2L59525-2550

525-7472874-2?L2

3t+?-249434?42rc

g3I-1015528-t+282

525-387252541t48

52?-5699527-2A42

3t+7-3L74528-t+}]-5

525-3872525-3'+48525-3472525-L9748?I+-27L2525-V5)525-L292525-t971+527-553)

3,+7 -nt+3525-L2925?5-3827

Yearbook Edl tor l Mrs. V.F. CrowleytGenealoglets: Mrs. Gordon Blalrr 88

!1r. Harold" l{acMlllant

Dr. hl .J. Johnsfont RR l t l t lar t lntoxn

Mrs" G.E. Broomhal l r RR I tAlexandrlat Ont.

nR 3, Dalkelth rf

Lowther Ave., TorontoEawkesburyt Ont.

Prees and Publ lc l tYl

Glengarry Scott lsh l{useumlCuiator: Mrs. Bhod-a i lacRae, Dunvegan, Ont'B)-dg. Comnlttee: l lr . John Loewen, Drnvegan, Ont'

Norrwestets l luseumtCurator: Mrs. Buth Howat, l r l l111a,nstownt Ont.Bldg. ConrrnX.ttee: l{r. Ian HcHartln, i lart lntownr Ont.

Conmlttee Chalrmen:Proggam & Schoo1 ProJects: Mrs. G.E. Broomhal lAnt iques Show & SaLe: Mrs. V.F. CrowleyFlddlersr Contest l HaJor B.G. MacG111lnrayHlghLand Games Booth: l ' l rs. w.A' l lacKlnnon

!lT. LloYd HacltllllartRefreshrnents: ! lrs. El lzabeth cl lngen, Alexendrla

l l rs. fnez McPhersonLlbrary: ! lrs. W.A. t{acKlnnon rl

I t lstorical Besearch: lr lrs. Kelth FrankLln, !{arvl l lel | n Ewan Boss, Nalrn Drlve, Goderlch

l lenbershlp: ! ! rs. J.G. Van Beekr Wl l l lamstownFloat Conmlttee: I{rs. Inez }lcPhersonArehlvest Mrs. E.P. Morton, Box 42?, Vankleek E1Il '

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FINAIICIAI BEPORT

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MSICIBICAL SOCIETY

Balance on Hamd L JanuarY 1973FeegGrantsDonatloneIeer BookAntlques FalrllaxvllLe GamesFldd1ersr ContestParade FloatBook Purchase artd Salesg ervl ette s , I last l-No te s , etc 'General Ad'vertlsln8;Conference ExPenseePostage, Pr lnt lng and Stat lonerYAcquls l t lons[11sce]laneous

Totale

Balance on Hand 3I Decenber L9?3

Balarrce on Hand l- JanuarY L973llernbershlP FeesAdnlsslonsllaxvllle GrantKenyon GrantProvlnclal Gra.n?Acquls l t lonsCuratort s SalarYAeslstant Curatort s SalarYilalntcnance and SUPPIIeSSlgn Pernl tsDllsceLlaneous

fi549).16 *2315.)2

Recelpts

*259?.42375.2550.00

102.00218.50

1299,)298.69

35r.0025.OO?4.6t+tr *

250. O0

Expenses

$ 5.00150.00

44?.06233.06

655.7340.01

119.0144.7 546.t+6?8.00

Ll+?.85300,o048.38

Rec elpte

$t9ot.5eg.o0

36?.2525.0O

1100. 00845.00,o: .

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$ir??. e4

Expenses

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#ti56.? 5425.?o?o7.90293.5110,00

5.55

t{oBrTEsTEEg. IqUSFt H

Balavrcc on Hand I Januarv L9?3Donatlonel{enberehlp FeesAdnlssloneArts & Crafts BecelPtsChrletnas 8al.eeConfcrence ErPenseaCrrratorr s SalarYAsslstant Curatorf s SaIarYllatntenancc and, SuPPll es

Totalg

Balerrce on Hand 3l Decenbet L971

CONSOLIDATED STATEI{ENT

Fletor lca1 9ocletYGlengarry Scottl gh l{ueeuml{orfl{egters lluseum

$2723.N $1840.48

$ 882.82

Becelpte

t1805.582.00

15.00l+5r. 18248.1t4

'1'oo

l+.

Expenses

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S Lz.oo

i,r.,rd565.8083.70

Lt3/4-.52

Cash on Eand.Benk Balance

Total.

Decenber 197)December L973

TotaL

*3t??.811t439.26

882.82

*5r+99.92

t 11.51tt+g5.4L

313L

$tbgg.gz

C.E. Broonhall

Treagutcr.

AI'DTTOB T g CEBTIFICAT,ION. "

I have eramlned the books and. flgures for the flscaLyear end,ed. the 31st day of Deceuber L973 and- herebycert l fy that they are colrectLy etatcd-.

John A. Fraeer

Audltor.

5.THq Ystnr s 4gSlrllg-rEs

Drr lng l9?3, the Glengarry Hlstor lcal Soclety

contlnued to expand 1ts areas of part lclpatlon ln the

preserve.t lon of the hlstor lcal and cul tural her l tage of

Glengarry.

The Glengany $cott lsh Museum arrd- the Nortwesters

l ' luseun curators welcomed a large number of vlsltorsr aS

wel l as school grcups, and some new acquls l t lons ere

reported 1n the fclIowlng parasraphs. Extenslve srea

dlstr lbutlon of brochures served to publlcIze our two

museums.

sEEgI-SGs,The f l rst meet lng 1n L973 was held on Apr l1 Jth '

ln the Glengauy Dletr lct Hlgh School, AlexandTla'.

Precedlng the buslness meet lngr a panel d lscusslonr cop-

per lng the rnethod of government ln the Unl ted States wl th

that ln Canacla, took place, wl th stud.ents f rom Grade 12

provlc l lng the pros and cons.

In l ' !ay, the rneetlng was ad"d'ressed by Mr. Blchard

Moore, whose subJect was ncanadlan House Archl t ,ecturei t

lllustrated by exarnpJ-es from Alexamdrla and th:e eurroundlng

c1.1str1ct .

The June meetlng was held- at the home of Hr. and

l l rs. GeorEe Van Beek, nAvondbloemn (the formet hone of

Carr le HoLmes MacG111lvray), and foLlowlng the buslnese

meetlng, Mrs. Van Beek qave an lnterestlng talk on the

houee, and the changes noade by varlous ownors.

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St. Raphaelr s Church was the 1oca1e for the

Septernber meetlng, and Father OrBrlen Save the members

lnterest lngdetal lsaboutthechurch,beforeand.af ter

lts traglc f lre, and- lnformatlon regardlng preservatlon

of the walls and grounds, as well as a Sulded tour through

t l re newlY erected bu11dlng.

Inoctober,MaJorShe}d'onCarrol ,Archlv lstof

the Canadlarr, Hlntr was our guest, and' spoke on trMoneyt how

lt came to be used, sd 1ts var lous formsn'

The November meetlng ras addressed' by Mr' Earle

} loore,speeklngonarecenttr lptotheor lent .Hlstalk

lras l l lustrated by extremely colourful and- beautlful sl ldes'

The AnnuBl Meetlng was held. Thurscay, Febnrary ?th,

;1g?t+, at the Boar<L Room, Departnent of Agrlcul-ture, Alexandrla'

Annual reports Were read., nomlnatlon and electlon of off lcers

and. commlttee chalrmen, and. fol low1ng the rneetlng, l tems of

Glengarry lnt,erest were d-1sp1ayed"

Unless otherwlse stated, neet lngs took pl-ace 1n

the Board Room, Decartment of Agrlculture' Alexanrdrla'

MUSEUMSj ACTTVTTIES

Glengarry Scott lsh l{useum, l}rnvegant was open

week-endsonlydur lngJunerbutdal lyrexcept l lond'aysrfrom

July]-st .ThearrnualEynnSlngandPlcnlcrasheld.Con-

sld.erable renovatlon was d.one to Museun and' grounde and a

new rldlng power lawn mower Ttaa purchaged. In the fal l t

the museum commlttee was able to obtaln (thanks to a

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generous donor) , an lnterest lng old cheese faetory

bulIdlng. The accompanylng cheese-malclng apparatus was

purchased by the Soclety and thls lnterestlng bulldlng

and. contents w111 form another attractlon on the slte

at DUnvegart. An lnierestlng sx0a11 organ r'qas also donated

to the Glengarry Scott lsh l luseum. Levell lng was done on

the plece of land. d.onated by Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Walker.

Iv l rs. Bhoda l lacBae, Curator, reported that v ls l tors were

generally most cornpllnentary about the museum and barn,

and contents.

The Norf westers l {useun, Wl l l lemstown, enJoyed.

another busy year, wlth a large nunber cf vlsltcrs an<l

scirool grolps belng record.ed, l{alntenayree work on roof

and eavestrcughs was done, and a youth Sroup worked- on

vartous lnaprovement proJects. A col lect lon of Esklno

art l facts was presented to the Museurn by Mr" Jln H11l-, and

l i l r . Reuben Boss has r lcnated hls lnterest lng col lect lon of

agrlcultural models for future dtsplay at the Museum.

A seal bott le, wlth the FlacDonell cl.est, was purchased.

for dlEplay and a book on Unlted Enplre Loyallst <l 'escendants

was also purchesed. Durlng the sunmer, Ioca1 crafts people

ha.d art lcles for sa1e, ln the east roorn of t ire rnuseum, and.

on Oct. 20 and 21, a speclal Craf ts Dlsplay was held '

whlch attracted. rnanY vlsltors.

8.

SPECIAL I,IEtsTINGS

Durlng the yeart executlve mernbers attended"

meetlngs of Kenyon and Charlottenburgh Counclls' to 81ve

reporte regardlng the Socletyf s two museuns'

The Presld'ent, Mrs' Duncan Grant' artd' Mrs'

Ruth l{owat, Curator, l$orrwesters Museum' represented

the Soctety at a reglonal rneet ing for Lccal soclet les '

sponsoret i by the Ontar lo Elstor lcal Soelety ' whtch was

helr i at SPencervt l le, Ont '

! l rs. Grant, and l { rs ' E' Broonhal l ' Publ lc l ty

Convenof r l rere the Socletyrs d 'e legates tc the Ontar lo

Hlstor lcal Socletyrs Annual l teet lng' wtr lch was held ln

Klngston, Ont. durtng the lat ter part of June' Interest-

lng reports, etc. l were brorrglrt back and' glven at a fal).

raeet l rg of the SocletY'

Coples of e book on Davld Thompson were glven

totheareaHlghSchoolsandPubl lcLlbrar les 'asthe

Socletyr s gchool proJect for the year '

The goclety sponsorerl ' a f loat ln the July 1st

parad.e at Alexandrla, and lt was agaln occupled by e group

of stud.ents fron Laggan Publlc School ' whose enthuslastlc

part lc lpat lon made thls f loat a pr lze wlnner '

9.

fhe booth at the Hlghland. Gamesr Maxvl1-1er was ln

a better locatton, and as usuaI, Glengarrlans dropped. by

to say ihel lof to the members on duty. Yearbooks, Ralph

Connor books, Gaellc servlettes, oatcake, eto. rtere eold

and brochures hand.cd. out to lnterested persons. l{r. Ewan

Ross wae also present wlth a map questlonnalre on Glengsgy

place names - thls belng a proJect ln whlch both he and.

the Soclcty are most lnterested.

fhe Seventh Annual Antlques ghow & 3a"1s ras held'

3ept. 14 and 15, l9?3, at the Graen Valley Favll lonr sd

off lclal ly opcned by l t lr . Osle Vll leneuve, t{PP.

A quantlty of a book of poems, rG3-engarry Foreveri,

by a nember, Douglae Falesr ras purchased for resale to

mernbers.

2!0 coples of the Yearbook were prlnted', a most

attractlve volune, and favourabLe comments w€r€ recelved'

An excellent cover d.rawlng by Mr. G.E. Broonhell, plus

lnterestlng contrlbuted naterlal, served to make thls

volume 1n gfeat d.emand., not only by members, but schoole

and other organlzattrons.

Bhe Fldd,lersf Contest and l i [uslc Festlva]- was held

Oct. z0th, L9?3 ln the Gl-engarry Dlstr lct Hlgh School t

Alexa.ltdrla, anrd once agaln served to pronote the muslcal

herltage of Glengarry, 1n the areag of f lddl lngr step danclngt

plano and" bagplpee.

10.

There were meny other ways ln rhlch the nenbere

worked to further the alns cf the Soclety - attendlng

slster Soclet lesf funct lonsr and act lng as good-w111

anbassadors for Glengarry generally. A bus load of

members and fr lend.e attend.ed. the nuslcal presentatlon of

oGlengarry Dayst, produced. ln Ottawa by the Orpheus

Pl-ayers, on what wae d,eslgnated tGlengarry Nlghtn, Dec. 11.

A supper for nembers and frlcnds was held. on

Frlday, January 25thr (the annlvereary of Bobert Burnsl

blrthday), at the Blde-a-Wee fnn, Alexandrlar wlth a

icet l ldht , l { .C.rd by HaJor Grant MacGl l l lvraxr fo1}ow1ng

the d.lnner.

There contlnues to be a great d.ea1 of lnterest

1n the hlstory, past and present, of Glengamy and the

Htstorlcal Soclety dld. l ts best ln L973 to ensure that

al l faccte of the subJect reselved thelr attentlon.

fn a resum6 such as thls, there w111 obvlously

be ontsslons, but 1t 1E hoped. that the foregolng lnd.lcates

the wlde scope of our act lv l t leE.

Ll,.

sAt{DY FRA.SEB AtilD THE FABI{EB| 9_ ADVOCASS

by Boyce l{acGl1llvreY

For almost exaetly one hundred" yearsr untll lt

went out of buslness Ln L965, was

a favourlte vlsltor ln Canadlan farn homes. Probably no

rcgpLar feature lt publlshed" wea nore eagerly read or

mor6 successful year after year than the colunn slgned

by dgand.y Fraseril artd. wrltten by John Hcfntoshr of

Breadalbane ln GLengarry County. Whlle Sandyr a crusty

old. Glengamy farmerr was Johnts greatest creatlonr he

lnvented eeveral companlons for h1n - ln the forn of the

Auld lr{eenlster, who often appeared at fhe Fraser home to

argue wlth Sandy on the meavrlng of llfe and of a f armert s

11fe 1n part lcular: Drncan McGregor, Sandyf s Scott lsh

born bachelor nelghbour end onetlme shantynanr wlth a love

for telJ_lng Jokes and etorles; and Sandyrs argumentatlve,

lntelLectual wlfe, Jean. Sharp-tongued. though Jean often

Ttes, she rtas seldom 11ore dread,ful than ln her blast when

gandy announced hls lntentlon of vlslt lng Europe:

iHoct ln returned Jean, before f had'weel done speaklnr, iWhat l lke shape d.ae yethlnk thlngs would be ln by the t lme we gotback? Gln ye want tae keep e roof over yerhe1d. yef d better be staylnr on the Job andnor be r lnnlnr of f tae see people who w111d.ae naethlnf for ye but takr yer moneyr whatI l t tLe ye hae of l t . Besldesr sal t wateralways nakes me slck, even g1n lt YIas na nalrthan half a teacupful, and I would na malrth lnk or set t lng foot on one or those blg

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ehlps that cross the ocean than I would' start

for theNorthPo].elnaf ly lngmachlne. irgui Julst the samern cont lnued Jeant

fYe can piui*" yerself aboot nhat ye want tae

d.o. I k; ; yerrL nlghty hard tae unsett le '

once ye 6et-a notlon un'd'er yer capt but thle

ls ny fraie and ltr s here I lntend tae stay'

Get Jennie (Sandyrs nlece) tae gang.wlf V€'thef l l - f<eep'y" oot ot the hands or the pol lo-e

and the pfik-pockets, and-maybe brlng ye back

tae yer hn fr-ste sLlve. I never could see

ony sense ln thle etravaglng off tae forelgn

countr les, onYwaY.ii l t i l - n lybb see rBonnle Scot landr whlLe

f f m awar , Jeanrr s4Ys I .FWeel- , 8 in ye do, I td advlge ye tae keep

safety-pi.ts'oi yei ' poctiets-, thatr e -al- l

f f vegot tae say on that polntr i repl led Jean; and

wlr that the natter was oroPpeo'"

But sandy and Jennle set out for Europe after a1-1 and Jeart

ls content wlth havlng the laet word:

tHave ye left yer l t fe lnsurance pollcy

wherercarr f lndl t lnoaseo|need' ,Sarrdy?isays she, as we nere leavlng'0

Surpr ls lngly, ln v lew of John'e 1l feLong

bache].orstatus'oneofhlsfavour l tesubJectefordls-

cusslon, 1n hls colunns, ls narrlage' Few rrttere nho have

never entered. the marrled state have laore nlnuteLy analysed'

l ts psychology, l ts advantages and, above al-1 - for hle vler

ofmarr lagewassonewhatcr l t lcal . l tsmlser les.Btr t

there are also d.eeply serlous, phllosophlcal d"lscusslone of

the meanlng of l l fe; a lot of autoblography (nuohl though

not al l , of whlch applles to John l i lclntosh as reIl ae to hls

creatlonl sandy Fraser) i and nany d.escrlpt lons of nen, eventg

end lnetltut lons ln Glengaffy, as 1n hls f lne essey of L932

13.

on the Bullfrog Tavern. Nearly elrery yesr he publlshed

a report on crops and reather tdoon here ln Eastern

Ontar lot or iaroond these parts. i Sometlnesr ln a

l lghter splr l t , hls colunns xrere l l t t le more tha"n collec-

t lons of good Scotch Jokes. But whatever the subJect they

always geve the lnpresslon that they were lntended' to be

read. s]owly and carefully and then reread agaln and agaln

t111 the last wltty phrase and plthy argument had been

adequately savoured. fhe read.ers of The Fargert s Advocate

were a serlous lot and they erpeoted - and. got - eolumns

whlch rewarded. the expend.lture of eerlousness upon them.

John Everett l lclntosh was born ln 1875 on hls

f atherf s farm on the south half of J.ot 14, ln the Nlnth

Concesslon of Lochell- - the farn on whlch he later spent

noet of h le L1fe. John was the f l ret chl1d of Peter

Hcrntoeh and hle wl fe l El lzabeth char lot te Everet t .

Peterrs father, another John Mcfntosh, had' emlgrated' fron

K1111n, Perthshlrel &nd Ln L827 recelved the patent for

th ls farn as l ts f l rst set t ler . El lzabeth Char lot te ras

the daughter of Cotton Mather Everett, of Polnte Fortunet

and was descended fron John Cotton (L584'f652) of Ner

England, whose }l fe app€ars ln the Dlctlonary of Amerlcart

Blosraphy. The Celebrated New England controverslal lett

Cotton Mather (1669-L??8, was her dlstant relat lve.

Sandy Fraser often nentlons hls father ln h1s colunns.

14.

ff the father of Sand'y FraEer and' of the real- John

ilcfntosh can be consldered one end the sem6t tt appeers

that Peter was an arnlable and lntelllgent man who was a

fr lend as well as a father to hls son' There are also

afewhlnbsrhoweverr thatwhl leherasdut l fu l lyhard-

worklng, he lacked the enterprlse and herd-drlvlng

quall t les of h1s mrlter son' John ls eald' on good'

author l tytohavebeenmuchlnf luencedbyhlsnother '

but for whetever reason he speal<s of her conparatlvely

LlttLe ln the Sand-y Fraser coLumns'

PeterarrdEl lzabethweretheparenteofarema.rk-

ablebroodofchl ldren.fheseoond'borrelDouglgsClyde'

waa a Yg].e dlvlnlty professot, dlst lngulehed' ln hls day

es a teacher, theol-oglan, and phllosopher' He publlshed

nlne books and a host of ar t lcLes on the subJects of

rel lglon and phl]-osophy. In 1931 he becane the subJect

of nat10nal attentl0n ln the unlted' Statee nhen the Anevlcan

SupreneCourtdenled.hlnAmerlcencl t lzenghlponthe

grountls that he refusecl to support the unlted statesepvern-

nent uncondttlona.lly ln any war ln whlch lt nlght be !'nvolved'

The New Yorlr Tlnee for 1931 and I 'he chrlst lan century for

193}andlg3zcontalnnanyreferencestothtso&8€.fhe

thlrd. born, Donald Holeard, taught at okanagan college and'

gumerland Hlgh schooln both ln sunnerland, B'C' Ee wae ln

the c,anadlan Arsry ln ltlorl-d }Jar I and- d'led, of tubercuLoslst

I

L5.

ln KanLoops ln 1921. Two gl:rLs conpleted the famlly'

Anna Bertha, a soclal worker 1n Massachusetts end onetlne

d.ean of women at Acadla Unlverslty, and NelLle Loulset

lrlrs. lrlo1lard, of Saskatehewan. As John and Donald. Howard

never marrled and Douglas Clyde was twlce marrled wlthout

chl1d,ren, !{rs. I t tol larCrs fam11y are the only survlvlng

descendants of Peter l , lc lntosh. f t 1e surpr ls lng to f lnd

that, at a t lne when few Glengarry farmers could afford-

to send thelr chl ldren to unlverel tyr the two younger

sons and the tr,ro i laughters of Peter Mclntosh a1-1 graduated

from Ucli{aster Unlverslty.

Wh1le hls brothers and. slsters were growlng up

and preparlr:.g to enter thls Baptlst Unlverslty - chosen

by then, no doubt, because the famlly was Baptlst - John

was educatlng hlnseLf ln hls own wey. In the loca1 publlc

school he had grorcn farnl l lar wlth the Ontarlo Publlc School

readers, to whlch he of ten referred- ln h1s wr l t lnpgs. He

aleo became eerly fam11lar wlth the struggle of l l fe outslde

the school raI1s, for the schoolchl ldren, he repeatedly

te1ls us, rere much addlcted to f lght lng wl th each other.

Later, however, he looked back on t lr ls Juvenlle vlolence as

a valuable part of h1s ieducatlon.i l After leavlng elenentary

schooL, he dld not go to hlgh school but sought another hlnd

of educat lon - a8 he later consldered l t - by helplng hls

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father on the farm iwhere choresr ehd then me.lr chore6t

wag the prlnelpal means of recreatlon and smusement. i

rn 18$4 he helped to bul1d the f lne brlck house whlch sttL1

stends on hls property and whlch replaced the f lrst house

bulLt by hls grandfather after he sett lecl on the Iand.

About L902 he travell-et l to the pralr les on a harvest

excurslon and. he repeated. thls erperlence at least once.

But the most lnportant part of h1s educatlon ca6e - perhaps

fn 1898/1899 - when he spent hls edll l l rat ln.g f lret wlnter

ln shanty. Bhe locatlon of the shanty was a vl l lage cal}ed

La Conceptlon ln the Lac Trenblant and St. Jovlte reglon

about 40 mlLes north of Grenvll ler Quebec. Llke so many

Glengarr lans of h ls generat lonr John loved shanty stor les

and tol-d then over and over agaln ln hls wrlt lngs. Sorne

of hls best pleees deel rc l th hls f l rst wlnter ln shar i ty.

fn shanty he learned the professl.on of log scaler and ln

later years he kept h1s Quebec Lo9 scalerr s l lcence framed

on the waLl 1n hls house. Soroet lme, too, 1n these ear ly

years John must have acqulred' the great readlng and even

erud"lt lon whlch he shows ln the Sandy Fraser columns,

where learned quotatlons from nAul-d ghakespearerr Sarn

Johnson, and a nult l tude of other wrlters were a part of

the Salrdy Fraser nethod. fhere eppear to have been booke

ln the l lclntosh houeeholcl fron hls earl- leet days' Later

he acqulred many more and. by the end. of hls llfe had' hun-

d.red.s of vol-unes.

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r?.

The earl lestappearance of Sandy Fraser, Johnts

f lct lonal creat lon, that f have been able to t race, was

ln a let ter to the edl tor pr lnted ln The Farngrr s Advocate

on 25 l t larch, 1909. Wrl t ten ln Scotch dlalect , l t beglns

wlth the word.e, t'ltlony a lang yee.r ago, when I was a wee

Laddle playlng amang the heather ln bonnle Scot landr, . . . *

These words clear up one of the smal1 nysterles ebout the

Sandy Fraser columns - that of why they were prlnted. 1n a

Scotch dlalect not actual ly used 1n Gl-engarry. Sandy

begam to speak thls dlalect as a nat lve born Seotchman.

Once the character was estabLlshed, l t was lnevl table that

John should keep the dlalect even af ter he converted Sandy

lnto the Glengarry-born grandson of a ploneer. The let ter

was a rveak essay on people who cr l t lc lze others whl le over-

looklng thelr own faul ts, and on people who are better at

the book theory than at the pract lce of agr lcul ture. I t

must have taken the fancy of the readers of The Farnerr s

Advocate or at least of the edl tors, for l t was fol lowed

up by a strean of other letters by Sandy Fraser before the

end of the year. fn the last of these, Sandyrs wl fe, Jean,

appesrs and, argues wlth Sandy ln alnost the aane klnd of

conversat lon they were to have near ly for ty years later.

Thereafter John Hcfntosh contr lbuted let ters and art lc l -es

under the name of Sandy Fraser to fhe Farroert s Advocgte

at lrregular lntervals. Durlng 191-5-19f7, hle contrtbutlons

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swel. led graCruall-y ln number t111 by the end of thls perlod

they werF appearlng regularly every second week. fn L9l?

the Advccate stopped pr lnt lng the bulk of h ls contr lbu-

t lons as let ters to the edl tor and began pr lnt lng then

eonslstent ly a.s art lc les. Presumably 1t was ln th ls yeart

at the l -atest , that Jchn began to be pald. An aceount

book founcl after hls death ehorsed that over the years he

recelved a total of more than $151000 from Tbe Farmerr s

Advocate for h ls wr l t lngs. Unfortunately nel ther Johnr s

pr lvate correspond,ence nor the of f lce f l les of the magazlne

Beem now to exlst , sc 1t 1s lnposslble to t race ln detal l

h ls relat lons wl th the edl tors.

Examlnat lon of the back lssues of the Advocate

ehows, bowever, that 1n the three d.ecades between the

beglnnlng of 1918 and hls death, the San<ly Fraser colunn

appeared ln the Ad.vocate approxlnately 92Q tlmes. If

publ lshed. 1n book forn, theee contr lbut lons would f111

ten or twelve prlnted volumes of ordinary slze. In ad"dl-

t lonr John eontr l t 'uted nany let ters to the edl tor of

The Farmerts Ad"vocgte, usually on econornlc toplcs of ln-

terest to farmers. These let ters were pr lnted. under hls

real name of rJ.E. Hcfntoshn of {Glengarry Co., Ont. i

Hls n1eee, Mrs. Clalre Bonne11, who remenbers hls wr l t lng

hablts, reports that he usuaLly wrote early Ln the dayr that

he would dash off e-n artlcle ln an hour or an hour and a

hal f , and that he never revlsed what he srote.

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Besldes belng a busy and resourcEfir l wrltert

he wae a succesfuL farmer. H1s rnother had d-led' ln 1901

and" hls father ln 1910; l -ater ln the sane yearr 1910t

John brrl l t a new barn on hls farm. He changed the satt le

of the farm from ecrub to purebred anil tn 1935 held a

Hclsteln f1e1d. day at h ls horne. fn ryJ6, the edl tors of

fhe Farmerrs Ad"vocate pald. hln tr lbute:

i l l i lhen vlslt lng Sand.yts home, we have beenlrapressed wlth the rlot of bloon thatcoula be brought to such perfectlon onlyby one who ls fond. of f lowers and culturesthem for the pleasure end satlsfactlonthey g1ve. And" separatlng the well-keptlawn fro,n the surroundlng f lelds le one ofthe beet evergreen hed.ges we have seenanyrhere ln Ontarlor not excepttng govern-ment lnst l tut lons. One hed-ge ls 21 feetthrough at the base, extremely dense andperfectly green from the gtound to theutmost t lp. And above al l thls are tonerlngtreee whlch sheLter the hospl table honew?rere Sand.y and Jean keep open house forDrncan ilcGregor and" the auld' meenlster'

But Sand.y ts no ldle pensloner. l{ l ththe a1d of J lm, the hlred manr he worl rs aful-I-slze farm' wlth here and there a stoneor two such as are not unknown ln Glengarry.l loreover, he worke l t weLl . . . Scarcely ayear passes wlthout an erperlnental plot ofsome klnd" addlng new d'ata or transplantlngtheory lnto fact. A pure-bred Holsteln herd'adorns the f lelds and contrlbutes raw materlaLto the baslc lndustry ln Glengarry and theEast - the nanufacture of ched.dar cheese .. IHe ls a 8u1d cl t lzen, whatever. i l

John owned the local cheese factory whlch was

sltuated. on h1s faln. For a short t lme he also owned

another cheese factory near Bread"albane Baptlst Church.

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one of the subJects to whlch he endlessly returned ln

hls wr l t lnge was the tr lbulat lcns of the cheese factrry

owner. In one of the last g l lmpses i^rhlch he glves of

hlmsel f ln the Sandy Fraser colunns, we f lnd. h ln r loI lng

out the whey tc the oheese factory patrcns:

sAt th ls t lme of the year, when the m1lkconnlng to the eheese-factory 1s gett lngless and" less as the d 'ays passt the p188that drlnk the whey r*lnlch ccmes back lnthe farrnerr s cans seem to be gett lngblgger and hungrler than ever2 and ofcooise there has to be sonebody at thewhey-tank - or guard, as ye nlght saytto neesr.rre oot thls valuable whey andsee that l I I<a patron gets hls share -and nae malr! And on eccount or thelabour shortage thls Job hasr of latetfaLlen on me. And lt sure keeps me busytae be glvlng al l hands rhat they thlnkls fa l r and st1I l have some for the lastmarl. f t glves a chaP a malr or lessfeellng or synpathy for the Gcvernmentand thelr rat lonlng buslness that we wereal- l . klcklng aboot for a few years.r l

Eorrever, as he 1lked to polnt out , a cheeee factory was

a soela} as wel- l as an eoonomlc lnst l tut lon. Gett lng the

nelghbourhood nelfs wh1le on the whey-d"lstr lbutlng Job

made up, he says, for the trorrble lnvolved' '

Nelther the denands of the farn nor cf the

cheese buslness, however, t led hlm to the o1d home

permanentLy, for he founrl ' opportunlty to pursue one of

hle keenest lnterests - t ravel . Besld.es t ravel l lng

extenelvely ln Canada and the unl ted states, he toured

Brltaln and Europe ln J.-925 wlth hls slster Anne'

Hls travels he d.escrlbed ln the sand.y Fraser columns.

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I t ls worth notlng that one of hls best travel columns

d.esor lbes hls t r lp to sorel , Quebec In LJJZ - at speclal-

excurslon rates belng offered" by the ral lway - to see the

ecl lpse of the sun of that Year.

A turnlng polnt ln hls l l fe cane ln 1940, when

he fe1l , ser lously 111. For s lxteen nonths hls col tuns

Fere nlsslng fron the Fa{mqrt s Advocate - the onJ.y lnterrup-

t lon slnee he became a regular columnlst !n the d.ays of the

Ftrst Worl-d War. The ear l lestof h ls resumed columns ln the

Advocate lncl,uded sone of the weakest he ever rrote but aS

he regalned. hls o]d strength and sel f -conf lc lencer thelr

qual l ty lmproved. unt l1, ln the end, some of hls ablest

wr l t lng was done 1n h1s f lnal hal f dozen years of l l fe.

He was forced, however, to glve up fuII t lme farnlng.

Eenry Couslneau, hls long- i lme hlred manr who l - lved wlth

hlS faml ly 1n a 1og house on Johnrs farm, henceforth ran

the farn on shares. In 1941, undet the t l t le of iJln and' I -

for Seventeen Yearg" r John pub)-lshed a splendld tr lbute to

hle hlred ma,n. Though the Jln of the Sandy Fraser coLumns

began as a f lc t l t lous character, he Seems to have become,

lncreaslngly as the years went on, I ienry Couslneau. Meanrhllet

desplte hls escape from the pressures of farmlngr John con-

t lnuecl to operate hls cheese factory buslness. In l -9&l he

bought a hundred. addlt lcnaL acres of land, at least part ly

to use 1ts forest for cheese-factory f l rewcod. The forest on

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hls own farra he had cut off long agot t111 he was able

dtae get the plough lnto every squere foot ot sol l on

the auLd farm.tr l{hen he f lrst beqan to share the manage-

ment of the farm wlth hls father, th ls forest covered

hal f the farm. fn hle later yeers he seensr f rom hls

wrlt lngs, to have regretted lte loss and. to have been

p}eeeed wlth the thought that he rae agaln a forest ouner.

John Mclntoeh dled 11. February, l-91t8, at D?.

l lacDonaldf s hospltalr Vanir leek 8111 (the torn or i toont

of the Sand"y Fraser colunns) after an l lLness of about

a nonth and a half. The two columne of January 1948 were

the l-ast to appear ln . On 25 February

the edltors of the Ad.vocate ennounced. to thelr readere the

d.eath of dthls l lkeable and talented. l trant. fhey noted

that he ras i l rather shy and ret l r lng, a good. farnerr o. .

and a man wlth e purpose ln L1fero and revealed to the

readers for the f lrgt t lne that Sandy Fraeer ras a penname

for John t{cfntosh. At the t lne of h ls deathr John ras a}go

wrlt lng a weekly column for under

h1s own nane and was contrlbutlng frequent art lcles to

The Canadlan Countr.vna4 under the penaane of Bustlous

(Lat ln for t rcountrynani) . Years before, he had also wr l t tent

as Sem Brown, for Farn and Dalrv whlch was pubLlshed. at

Peterborough, Ontarlo, and went out of bustness ln l '934.

go far as ls knovrn, he never wrote for any other pub3-leatlons.

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Of al- l hls wrlt lngs, only the $andy Fraser cclumns

appeared 1n Scotch dlalect .

Uhl1e much of hls wrlt lng ln standard Engllsh

waa competent rather than outstandlngr the Savrdy Fraser

coLunns were good. by any Llterary standards. John

l lcfntosh ln hls role as Sandy Fraser deserves to be

remembered as a scl- ld. essaylst rather than as a mere

colunnlst . Hls l l terary gl f ts were especlal ly not lce-

eble ln hls 1- lghtness of sty1e, asLonlshlng skl1l ln

d,1aLogue, and. r lch lmaglnatlon. It ls a great mlsfor-

tune that he never wrote a book. The Sand.y Fraser

art lc les shlne l lke Jewels ln the wl lderness of the

back lssues of The Farm.grrs tdvoeater but they are

11kely to be conpletely forgotten once the last gen-

eratlon whlch read. The Farrnetr s Advocate has dlsappeared'

fn accord.ance wlth h1s lnstmct lons, h ls body

Tees cremated. The ashes were burled. ln the l ' lcfntosh

fanl1y cemetery on h1s own farm. A nonument ln the

cenaetery Commemorstes hlrnsel- f and h1s brothers and slSterS.

In hls r1l-1 he dlrected that hls s lsters and hls

survlvlng brothe1l were to recelve lncone from the farn

durlng thelr l l fet lne. After the death of the last of them

the farm wae to be sold and the estate dlstr lbuted.r wlth

the lr lontreal Chlld.renr s Hospltel as the prlnctpal bene-

f lc lary. Nel l le, t i re laet of the faml ly, d led- tn 1959r and

fn L960 the farn was sold to Dr. A.E. Mol1r l ts present

ofirter, a MontreaL PhYslclan.

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As the Sandy Fraser columns are based on, and

often erpreas, John f icfntoshf s phl losophy, l t ls worth

asklng what that phl loeophy ls. I t can be out l lned ln

the fol- lowlng words. The whole world, harsh and dlsap-

polnt lng as l t of ten 1s, ls a place of educat lon - very

slml lar to a school - where we learn f rom the cradle to

the grave through exper lence. Ll fe woulc l be a fut l le

buslness l f th ls learnlng process had no ul t lmate use,

lf d.eath slmply cut us off and plunged us lnto an endless

non-exlstence wl"en we have recelved that 11m1ted degree

of development whlch Ls al l that ls posslble w1th1n the

I lmlts of one l1fet1me. But 1n al l l lkel lhood, death

1s not the end. fnstead, there nust be other wor lds ahead

of us ln wtr lch we cont lnue thls learnlng process, Just ae

someone contlnues hls educatlon as he advanees frorn publlc

school to hlgh school . In th ls present worId, work has an

outwardly forblddlng aspectr yet r lght ly consldered, work

ls a bIesslng, not a curse. Work ls the best road to such

happlness as we cen at ta ln, work te lLs us what we are worth,

and work ls an lnportant part ln the leernlng process by

whlch we ere prepared for the next i l t rs.1n1nF--school wor ldrr .

FoB AssrsrANcE rn prepart ; ; ' ; ; t " ' ; ; ; " r" , r an especlal lygrateful to M::, and l j trs. Kenneth Campbe11, Mrs. Cle1reBonnel l , ! l r . Georpe Ho11arr l , l l t rs. Evelyn Bedfern, and theUnlverslty of Guelph Llbrary where f read the back lssues ofThe Farnerr s Advocate. fnterest lng gl lmpses of John Mcfntcshand the Mclntosh household of h1s youth are ln Douglas ClydeMaclntoshr s contr lbut lon to Contemporary Aner lcan Theology:Th eologlcal Autoblograph. tes,An excellent essay on Sandy Fraser, by the Rev. ICm. D. Beld,appeared ln The Farmerrs Advocate snd E-0 Revlew, March, 191+8.

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GLENGANBY AUTHOBS

bY Ewan Ross

To everyone who ls lnterested' ln Glengarryt

gooneror l 'aterr lnaLetterorconversat lon'comesment lon

of Glengerry authors' Every Llbraryt museum or prlvate

col lectorofGl-engarr lanawarrtsacompletesetofGlengarry

authors.Thl 'g lsadl f f lcul t taslr toful f l l ] .asl t ls

almost lnposslbletodef lneadGlengarryAuthor| | .Nocom.

plete col lect lon of what has been wrl t ten wl th el ther the

author,orthework,havlngsomeconneot lonwlthGlengarry '

exlsts, to the best of mY knowledge'

The foLlowlng cross-sectlon of such authors w111

glve som€ lclea of the extent and complexlty of the task of

aseembl lng such a col lect lon' Here I am l ln l t lng mysel f to

authors ancl works whlch f own personally' ln some form or

another, be 1t rare f r rst edl t lon, repr lnt ' xerox copy or

art lcle cl lpped from a newspaper by someone over the years'

These I cavr vouch fori f am also awarc that as much more

probably exlsts ln the hands cf museums' l lbrarles and

pr lvatecol lect lonsraswel laslnUnlversl tycol lect lons'

The June , Lg?3lssue of {Ontarlo Hlstoryi (t trc

quarterfyof theOntar loHlstor lcalsoclety) ,carr ledtwo

art lc les 'oneent l t ] .ed' i lNovel lstsandtheGlengarryPloneern,

by Dr. Boyce MacGl l l lvary; the other ' t the fmage of the

French-CanadlanlnGlengarryLl teraturei ,byEdwardS.st .John.

Asrwrl tethls,aCol. I r tacGl l l lvaryatThund.erBaylsprepar lnS

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g.hlstoryofthel iacGl l l lvarysforpubl lcat lonarrdlnl t

l tacGll l lvarys frorn Glengarry 1111 appea:r. A natter Of days

ago, an unpubllshed. novel by Carrle l lolnes l lacGll} lvray came

to l lght . She cal led l t "Fralr le Star, A Saga of the

Western P1alnsi l and I t ls based on the 1l fe of Louls RleI '

In 1g56, one hundred and seven y€ars a8o, a novel entlt led

nshenacrs Worlc at Home{, by l{ary Murray Bobertson, appeared';

t ts subJect was the l l fe and peoples of Northwestern

Glengarry, and was probably the f lrst noveL wrltten about

the Coun.ty. (The author was a slster of Balph Connorrs

nother) . Seventy-f lve years bcfore ishenacn appearedt

Mrs. John Graves slncoe nade several rnentlons of Glengarry

and 1ts peoples ln her d-lary. Before her, Ln 1785, Joseph

Hadf le ld, ln hls d. lsry, d.escr lbes a v ls l t to 91r John

Johnsonr s temporary home at what ls now Fraserrs Polnt '

tn l?59, ln Lond.on, Englend was publlshed. iAn nl8torlcaI

Journal of the canpalgns 1n North Amerlca for the years

n5?, L?58, L?59 and 1?50n- I t was conpl led' by John Knoxt

a l leutenant wlth Gen. Jef fery Amherstr s exped'l t lon d'onn

the St. Lawrence fn 1?60 and the vol'ume contalns a rud'e nap

of what ls novE the St. Lawrence - Lake St. Francls areat

ehowtng both shoree and the lslands. rt also oontalns a

reference to Slr Wl11la"n Johnson, who was wlth thc cxped'l t lont

smoklng the peace plpe wlth the Indlans at .Akwesasne (St' Begls) '

The expedlt lon camped on Cat fsland and also on what le now

proba.bly the land. occupled by the Howerd" sntth Paper UlII

tn CornwaLl.

2?.

The tlne Epa!! covered by llterature wlth a

Glengarry connectlon covers the years from 1-760 to l9?3

and thcn only lf we d.o not go lnto suoh works as Reament s

ilTral1 of the froquols IndlansH and several etand'ard' works

on Geology wlrlch deaL wlth the area'

In thls t lne span appeared' many works - bcokst

poetry,shortstor les 'neT'spaperart lc les, faml lyhlstor les '

ehurch and eommunlty hlstorlee: 1n quall ty al l the way from

Eoodtobad.r t lsnopartofrnylntent lcntocomparescne

of the less lmpresslve works of 8a1ph Connor (Dr. charles }I.

Gordon) wlth the dry books on esonomlcs wrltten by the Rt.

Eon. l {1 l1 lamLyon} lacKenzleKlng,(one-t lnel i [ .P. forGl-engarry)

or the boolr on the economtcal helght of bulIdlngs, entLtled'

rskyscraperr by Dr. l ' I . cl l f ford, clark, a natlve of Glen

Falloch, and. one-t lne Deputy l l lnlster of Flnence ln Ottawa.

I t leof lnterest thatsomanypersons,maleand

fcmale, some natlve-born such as Grace (Grant) Carnpbell- and

others reslr lent for a t1ne, Slr Edward Peacock for one' rrrote

books.otherswhowroteofGlengarrywereborncloseby'such

ae James Cro11. Passers-by, euch as John Howlson' wrote of

Glengarry a8 dld. Gl-engarrlans by ad.optlon such as Dorothy

Dumbrl l ] .e(Hre.J.T.8n1th).Thenwehavethechurehhlstor]"ang

such as Jean Uaclntosh; the professlonal hlstorlans l lke Bruce

Hodglns and Edr ln Gul l let ; the blographers 11ke H.J. Somers

and those trho rrrote columns for nagazlnes. In thls groupt

I nust mentlon c.G. l t lacKll l lcan, whose i lHaCf S t leand'erlngstr

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rere a feeture ln the Canadlan Countryman and Sandy

Fraser (Jotrn Uacfntosh) 1n the Farmert s Advceate.

Ellzabeth Blalrr s art lcles are rea.d wlth great attentlon

rhen they appear ln the pubLlcatlons of several learned

eoclet les, end we nustnt t forget l ' Iar lcn Rod.gerf s fChurch

of the l, Ieekf , nor Louella Dunlopr s art lcles on local

hlstory, ln thc ne'!{spapers, whlch were such lnterestlng

readlng for many years.

Thls scrt of thlng cou}d go on for pages but I

rsl1l brlng l t to a close by mentlonlng Grace Hartley, H*rose

fan1Ly story rscott" ls a nodel rvhlch few faml ly hrstor la l rg

wl1l come close to emulat lng. Some of the $cotts were

Glengarry people and she glves nany detal ls of l l fe and

people ln the County.

8o who and what ls a Glengarry Author? Or what

ls Glengarry l t tereture? Frankly, f donf t knorsl f do

know that G]-engarry has and always has had an extraordlnary

connect lon wl th those who *r l te. At the end of th ls art1cle,

I w111 append a l ls t of authors who, el ther themselves or

ln thelr wrlt lngs, had some eonnectlon wlth Glengarry.

Perhaps aome reader w111 f lnd a sommon denomlnator but r

can assure anyone who reads a cross sectlon of the authors

on thls I tst , that they had best be prepared to explore

eve"ythlng from statlst lcal economlcs to church rows; frorn

archltecture to the ftrst Popultet Irtovement on the Pralr les.

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trtoet, l f not al l , the books and' authors nentloned

can be obtalned. for readlng ln some collectlonr prlvate or

publlc, sonewhere. But I have no l l luslons that the i lst

1s complete. Only a few nonths ago I learned. (fron Dr.

Boyce l{acGllllvary) that ny maternal grandfatherr John D.

McEwen, had a th l rd book to hts eredl t .

I offer my apologles ln advance for omlsslons and

w111 be glad. to hear of them, especlal ' ly l f I noay learn

r+here f nay obtaln a copyr even lf Just to read.

f have tr led to compl le a l tst of authors; the

lnterested reader wl l -1 have to assemble other data for

themselves. Space ln the Yearbook forbld"s the lncluslon

of dates of b l r th, p lace of publ lcat lon' and t l t les.

Balph Connor alone wrote sone 35 books and nany art lclest

and Sandy Fraserts pleces run lnto the hund.redsr over narty

years. Thls wouLd be an lnterestlng task for a tralned.

l lbrary staf f , wl th the resources of a Unlversl ty or

Archlves, but f t rust the I1st w111 be of lnterest to readere.

Llst of authors rvho, elther ln thelr personaor In thelr wrlt lngr had sone connectlon wlth

GLENGABBY

tlary lrlurray Bobertson; Robert Sel1ar; Bowland Bond-;

Hll-I lam Canlff ; John R. Ross; Somerled l lacl l l l - lan; Edward.

lhonpson; John G. Harkness; l , I .L. Scott ; Bruce Hodglns;

Edwln Gul l l -et ; James K. Snl th; Grace Hart l -ey; Macleods;

Charl le Slnclalr ; Bhodes Grant; l {1111am Lyon } lacKenzle Klngi

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Wll l tan Perklns Bul l ; Slr John Johnson, Znd" Baronet;

S1r John Johnson, 6th Baronet; Alexand'er H. Scott ;

Dorothy Drmbrl lLe; Bal-ph Connor; Grace Canpbell;

J.A. I ' lacDoneL1i R.J. Fraser; Carr le Ho1nes HecGlI I lvary;

John D. McEwen; Nathan PhlLl lps; J.D. Anderson; Ewan Roee;

Cllf ford Cl-ark; Blshop Al-exander MacDonelL, lst Blshop of

upper canada; J.T. l le"ePherson; Spanlsh John l ' laeDonelL;

Davlr| fhonpson; Marlon l la"cf laei G.A. FlaeDonell; Slr Sdward.

peacock; John MacDonald; $mythe carter; J.F. Pr lnglei

c.s. i loward.; s l r James Grant; s1r Donald MacMaster i

C.G. t ' lacKl111can; John Hacfntosh ; Marlon Rodgers;

Louel la Dunlop; El lzabeth Blalr ; Royce l lacGl l l lvary;

Ed.war<l $. St . John; Boy Danlels; J.T. l i laoPherson; John

Sand.f 1eld l i lacDonald; D.!1. l lacPherson; George H. l tacGll1lvary;

Al_ex Mu11ln; James Berry; Jean l4acrntoeh; Lols Lawton;

i lar , r1 l1e Wornenf s Inst l tute; Wl l l lan D. Reld; Donald

l lacMll- la.n; Leo lhrghesi G. Watt smlth; campbell Fraser;

J.J. McCormlek; John Knox; Mrs. John Graves Slncoe;

John Howlscn; Lord selk l rk; HuSh P. Mscl l l l lan; l l rs. D.J.

Bobertson; Hrs. D.C. I ' tcDougal; !1rs. Jerome HacDOnel l ;

Slster Cl-a1re F{acDone}l i } lrs. John A. I ' lacKlnnon; Anne M.

l{ac}! l l lan; Mrs. Clarence lr laclt l l l -14n1 Mrs. D.J. I t lacCrlnmon;

Archlbald l lacDonald; Velma S. Pranklln; Chrlstena FergUsont

Edl th Fer€nrsoni F.B. Bleteen; Lt . Co}. S. LeR. Spl 'cert

Kel th l {acfntosh ; Chr ls lef lora MoDonald" i Shel la Conwayi

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Florence li[acDone]-l; Col. ll.J. Frsnklln; Leroy Guldan;

Flora Jane l lunro; Wl1l lan Eall ; MarJorle Crowley;

Rud,olph Vllleneuve; Theresa UcBae; Ian ltlcllartln;

Ph111p Eoss-Boss; Grant l lacGl}l1vary; DouSLas G. l{acKey;

and last but not l-eaet, I 1111 rnentlon the reporters of

locaL news over the years.

(Edltorf s note - Flany of the foregolng persons are l tsted

as they have rr l t ten art lcles appearlng ln past lssueE

of the Yearbook of the Glengarry Hlstcrleal Soclety)

32.!IcCBIMHON

bY PeneloPe llacCrlmmon Grant

(Edltorr s note - The fol lowlng w?s wrltten by Penelope

i;;c; i ;ron--(crant) , frorn a compllat lon by-John A. 11sog3Lmnonl

i i " r i " t r1er, aLong'wrt | , h ls brotherr_Jas. J. MacCrlmmon.Thls htstory was"rr l t ten for the McCrlnmon l ' lomenrs rnSt l tUte '

"tra w"" reab at thelr meetlng Feb. 15th, 1939. t le feel^

that thls art lcle should be lneorporated ln the socletyr s

iearnoof , for future reference, and thank the litcCrlnnonIdomenr s Instl tute for sharlng thls hlstory wlth the Glengarry

Hlstor lcal Soclety. )

Overonehundred"yearsesorabout] .sSsrtherewas

onLy a tral l here along the road al lowance. About L840, the

rlght of way was cut, g1v1ng a foot-path ln summer when the

ground was dryl and a slelgh road ln I 'r lnter'

Stxteendwel l lnghouseshadbeenbul l t r twoof

whlCh have been pulled. down artd. tvro have been burnt. The

f lrst house to be bull t was t l"e.t of Donsld. Macleod, naternal

UnCle of OUr esteemecl townsmarr, l l r . AngUs D. Macl{agter.

Alexander Bethune arrl .ved atrout 1858 to teach school ln the

18th Conceselon, a posl t lon wtrLch he held for seven yearsr

Hls fael ly l lved v:est of Alexandrla. Mr. Bethunet f lnd.lng

no acconmotlatlon here, bargalned wlth Bana1d MacDonald for

the waLl- of a barn to bulld h1s house opposlte l{r. D.N.

Canpbel l ts home. Thls th l rC house wss L. :u l l t by Donald D.0.

t {acCrlmmon tn 18?6. Here, he kept a store and Post Off lce

under the nane of (Klngsburyrf. In L878 a fourth house was

bullt by Donald. Campbe11. Thls house 1s n,:w occupled by

hle f lonr Duncanr N. and Mrs. Canpbell-

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In the Eame yeer, Dan Barett bullt a house ln

whlch he had. a store. Thc elrth house was Grected by

t{acLeod Brothers 1n 1885. It served es a store and'

drel l lng house. Thls bulldlng ls now ocoupled. by John A.

llacCrlrnnon as a general store. John A. DlacBae bu1lt the

house now occupled. by ilr. Angus ltlacMaster. In 1889

D.D. l{acCrtnnon bought a J,og house from fsaac Banger and'

had lt re-ereeted on the farn now owned by ! lr. D.N. l lacl leod.

Alex FlacKenzle and hle brother bull t e house ln the n111-

yard, opposl te Mr. Campbel l fs home. They, wl th thelr mothert

1lved there for Eome tlrne. The house ras solc1 later and

noved to a new 1ocat1on. Eenry l taclntyre erected the new

house on Hr. D.N. l laeleod.t s property and had the Lo9 housc

teken alray. I'lalcolm Hacleod bought the house that D.A. l{acLeod

had on the old honestead, had lt taken down and' re-erected'

north of N.K. UacCrlnmont e store. Thls bulldlng was later

bought by John A. lrlacCrlmron, nho had. lt enlarged. In 1907

Hugh Maellaster eglved fron the North and set up bustness.

He bought a town lot fron Ne1I N. FlacCrlnmon and crected

upon lt a blacksnlth shop ayrd dwell lng. Thls house ls nor

occupled by l1r. end Mrs. Dan Coughlln. Boderlck D. Hacleod

erected, a shop and dwell lng Just west of the corner, In

1920 J.D. l i lacleod bull t a dwell lng across from thle house.

Thls 6welllng 1s now occupled by lrlr. and li{rs. Grant }taclrllllan.

There were tlceLve bLacksnlths dolng buslness at

the Corner and elgtrt blecksmlth shope. In L878 Dan Barrett

y.

bull-t the flrst one on the property later owned by John

f,. HacGlllvray. He WaS fOlLowed ln the succeedlng year

by John scott, who al.so rorked there at h1s trade. Thls

bulld. lng $as used succegslveLy as a bLacksnlth ShOpt

cheese factory and butcher shop. our f lrst cheese fac-

tory was opened ln thls bulldlng !n 1881 wlth ! lr . McLennant

Lancaeter, a.s manFg;er and l{r. gtreater as cheeee meket|.

In 1883 Dan Barrett had a tnrtcher shop ln thls bul}d"lng for

the whoLe summer. The next was opened^ by Ang.us Fergpsont

ln 1887, who worked afr a blaohsnlth, waSon-bul1der and

vlolln maker. another shop was opened the same year by

thomas Fletcher, who bought Barrettrs shop and property

adJolnlng. He re-erected Upon lt a log house bought from

D.D. Macleod. f ie contlnued ln hls trade unt1l ]-893. In

1894, Eenry ilaclntyre bul1t a ehop on h1e lot and. contlnued'

at hls trade untll 1920, when he sold the propelty to

l { .D. Coughl ln.

After MacCrlmnon and Barrett'n the next store

tlras started by John A. ltacflae and Kenneth tt[acGllllvrayt

who bought Barrettrs etock and contlnued ln the buslncset

ln the same p]ace, for two years and a half, !lT. l{acGllltv1.ay

retlr lng ln the f lrst yearo In 1885, l1r. Barrett returnci l

from Lancaster, where he had, been ln the meantlme, antd

!lr. lrlaeRae noved across the road lnto tlaCLeod Bros. n€1;

store trulLdlng, where he contlnued ln the buelness untl l L892.

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In 1891 he was Jolned ln pahtnershlp wlth Norman D.

l i lacleod wlro contlnued untl l 189?. In Decenber, L897

he sokl the store to hls brothert D.D. Macl ,eodr who

cont lnued the buslness unt l l Apr1l , 19A5, when he sold

lt to hls nephew, John A. MacCrlmmon. John P. l{a.c}laeter

opened up a store ln 18811 ln D.O. MacCrlnnonf s house.

He was commonly ca}led. i lBlack Donaldt. f le remalned

there for two yearst when he bought the Barrett property

and moved ln. N.K. HacCrlnmon and John J. ItlacSwelm

rented. the etore and contlnued the buslness. !{! . MacSweyn

rettred the second year. Laterr l [r. ] lacCrlnmon sold out

and went trNortht. In L897 he returned and opened up a

general etcre ln D.0. MacCrlmmonr s house. Two years

later he took as partner l{r. Nell- Fraserl f low of Vankleek

H111. They contlnued 1n buslness untl1 1-905 when they

sold out to J.A. l t lacCrlmmon.

The f lrst saw-nll l (a portat, le one) ?ras set up

by John ltael la.ster, ln partnershlp wlth D.H. MacDonald.

Later they bull t a larger n111 r+hlch was burnt ln 1888.

A new n111 wa.s bul l t by the f l rm on the aame sl te. Mr.

l lacDonald sold hls lnterest to John A. MacRaer who ln

1892 dlssolved. partnerehlp wlth Norman D. l t lacl,eod..

ttr. MacBae retlred fron the lunber buslness and moved.

to Alexandrla. Then lrlr. Andrew K. Fraserr of Dunvegarlt

bul l t e new n111 ln 1903 and contlnued untl l hls death.

Later, Urs. Fraser sold the m111 to K.J. Chlsholn of

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Dunvegan. H€ later sold l t to lr[r ' Ethler of Dalkelth'

In1930thepresentnl l ] .T 'aserected.byMr.D.W.Canpbel l

and lrtr. J.B. Urquhart.

A l lcensed hotel was kept here by ! lr ' Angus

GrantfronlSS1to1891.Thesonsof9cot landHa1]-rae

bul1t by the Conmunlty ln l-902, north of the corYtert on

the property glven by Ne1l N' ltlac0rlnmon'

The house bull t by l i l r ' Bethune' whlch wes nen-

t loned' ear] . ler ln th ls hlstory ' ras f rom the wa, l l of the

barn whlch had bcen erected by Benald llacDonal-d and John

Cooperrhtebrotherraf ter thelrreturnfromQuebec'

I twaserectedeastof thesugarbushrandwasusedfor

storlng hay for nearly twenty years' untl I the road to the

premlses wae lnproved.

The f lrst d.ressmaker wa's l ' l rs' D'D'O' MacCrlnmont

who raade chlldrenr s c1othln8 fron ]:e?6 to 18811. In 1884-5

l . t lssIeabelC].ark 'nowtr l rs.D.A. l {acf ,eodofAlexand.r ! .a '

rasdressrnaklnghere,sdfrornlSSe-g,Mlssl , tag8leMu1hern

earr led on the buslness.

l laccrlrnrnon was varlously ca11ed' nAlte Braegllelnrr t

rBarrettr g Cornelsir nucCrlmrnon{ r nCrasga Bheutanarchr'

3?.

A GLENGARRY LAT{D GBANT

by !{ery Boss-Rose

How gratl fylng 1t nuet be to those famll les

who st1ll orrn land lnherlted. fron thelr forebears, the

flrst sett lers ln Glengerryr and what prlde they nust

take ln the fact!

Our 1and, Lot 31, lst Concesslon of Lancaster -

the Lake Townshlp - passed through several hands ln early

d.ays. ft was orlglnally granted to Bobert Dlxon and

famlly on the Z?tn !{ay, 1797. They sold the east half

to John Devlne, for 1J0 poundsr and hls fanl ly owned. 1t

frorn 1832 to 1q12 - 80 years, He had. a 1og house and

ttrnber frsne barn near the rlver, whlch were stl l l stand-

1ng 1n 191&, al though ln poor condl t lon.

John Devlne0s rl fe was Catherlne Bethune' wldow

of James Dunlop of $outh La.ncaster, l t should be mentloned

for those readers lnterested ln genealoglcal detal ls.

In October, 1912, thls land rss eold by Janes

Devlne, son of John, to Peter L. BonnevJ. l ler Contractort

for $3r5OO who, ln turn, resold l t to Donal-d Boss-Boss, of

l lontreal , for $5000.

The west half of the lot was lnpounded by the

Crown fn 1821 and. was deeded. by Donald i lacDonellr therlf f t

to Angus McDonell of Osnabnrckr who bought the land at

publlc Auctton for the sum of 3.4.1+ pound.s ln Aprl l , 1831.

38.

It nust have been angus ltcDonell who bulIt the present

stone house, whleh we have been told dates from approx-

lrnately 1835. There was a nell near the lake so posslbly

there was once a log house there before the stone houee

was trulLt.

fn L851 the west half wae agaln a Crown Grant

back to ttre helrs of the orlglnal Robert Dlxon, and hls

wlfe Phoebe, to Alexs.nder Grant of the Townshlp of

Lancaster, Blacksrnlth, rAsslgnee of Bobert and John

Dlxon, tHrln sons and helre at law of the late Robert

Dlxon, devlsee of h le brother the late Wl l l lam Dlxon and

Son and helr at Law of the late Robert Dlxon' a Sett ler

under the regulatlone prlor to July 1796" i together wlth

all the tfoods and Water's thereon lylng and belngr under

the reservat lons, l lml tat lons and" cond. l t lons, herelnafter

erpressed; 11) HAVE AllD f0 HOLD the sald Parcel or Tract

of Land, hereby glven and granted to hlur the sald Alexander

Grant h1s helrs gnd asslgns for ever: savlnpcr neverthe).esst

to us, our Helrs and. successors, a1l Fl lnes of GoLd and

sllver that ShaLl or may be hereafter found on any part of

eald Parcel or Tract of Land; snd savlng and reservlng to

us, our Helrs and successors, a l l whl te Plne trees that

shal1 or may now or hereafter gror, or be growlngr on any

part of sald Pareel or rract of Land. hereby grented a8

aforesaldr{- tsGlvenundertheGreat$ealofourProvlnce

of Cayrada: Wltnessr our Blght trusryand Blght Well-Beloved'

39,

cousln James, Earl of E1gln and. Klncardlne, Knlght of the

i lost Anclcnt and Host Noble Order of the thlst le, Governor

General of Brlt lsh i lorth Anerlca, and' Captaln General

and Governor ln Chlef, ln and over Qur Provlnce of Canad.at

Nova Sootla, New Brunswlck, and. the Islanrl of Prlnce Ed.ward't

and Vlce-Adnlral of the sarne, &c. &c. &c. i

In l t lay 1851r, Jemes Grant of Sheff leldr 1n the

Unlted Countles of Frontenac, Lennox and Addlngtonr yeomant

and hls r l fe, Annle, transferred the land to George Grant

of the l townehlp of Lancaster, Yeomart, for 1 pound. Both

Jarnee and Annle slgned the Deed" wlth an X. 0n the sane

date, Wl1l1am Grant, of Jef fersonfs County 1n the State of

Ner York, Carrlage-nsker, and Jane Grant of t l te Townshlp

of Lancaster, gplnster, also slgned over the land for I

pound cach, and fn 1857 Donald Grant of the Townshlp of

Lancaster, Blacksnlth, recelved. J pounds for hls 1.eleaget

and ln 1851 Mary Grant, of the townshlp of Lancastert

rccclved the ganer

On the lrd Decembor, L855, George Grant and hle

wlfe Barbara (n6e ilcPherson) sold the property to Farquhar

l loCrlnnon of the Townshlp of l , lest Hawkesbury, ln the County

of Prescott, tor 350 pounds. George and Barbara Grant

slgned thelr names to the Deed., but Farqu):ar McCrlnmon

slgned wlth an X. On Febnrary |th, L9O0, Farquhar l{c$rlnmon

made hls W111, leavlng everythlng to hle wl fer El1en'

wltnesSed by Duncan Fraser and James Devlne. Farquhar must

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have dled" soon after th1s, for the next record !s a Deed

dated January, L9O5r by El1en l{cCrlmmon of the Townshlp

of Lancaster, l,lld.ow lromanr to her son Farquhar Duncan

li lcCrlnmon, glvlng hlrn the farn rr ln consli leratlon of

natural love and- affectlon and the sum of $1.OOl but

retalnlng a I l fe lnterest ln l t for hersel-f ; and Farquhan

Duncan icharges hls remalnder ln the sald lands wlth the

support and malntenance of hls slsters, Catherlne Ann and

li lary Bell-, Splnsters, they to contlnue to perforn thelr

household and other work and dutles aa they have heretofore

been aceustomed to do, and to I lve on the sald lands as

1-ong as a home le there provlded. for thero. i l fhey were to

reoelve the sun of $200 at the explratlon of one yeer froro

the date of the Deed. Becelpts for th ls money were slgned

on Nov. 19th, 1906 and Feb. 2A, ] -90?.

Farquhar McCrlmmon, hls wl fe Ll l l tan Cather lnet

and E1len l lcCrlnmon so1d, the West half of Lot Jl to DonaLd

Ross-Boss, of l {ontreal , on October L8th, 1913, for StOrO00.

Releases were also slgned by Hary Bel1 Palknert of the town

of Penhold, 1n the Provlnce of Alberta, wlfe of Edgar Falknert

farmer; and Catherlne Ann Dlngrel l of the Clty of Red Deert

ln the Provlnce of Alberta, rslfe of James Dlngwa1l, Stone l lason.

The Deed ls wtlnessed by Catherlne f iary Caneron' Clerk of

Lamcaster, Ont. At thls t lne Farquhar McCrlnmon moved to

Weetern Canada. The property 1s now otrned by Phll lp Boss-Rosst

son of Donald.

l l1.

In 1851t, the Grand Trunk Ball-way ras bulldlng

lts l t lontreal- to Toronto I lne, and on JuIy Jrdr John

Devlne so1d. I - l/5 acres of land to the Rallway and

Alexand.er Grant eold the Ballway I - L/8 aeres of land'

on l,tay 4th,

In 1913, land was so1d. to the Cedars Bapld.s

Itlanufacturlng and Power Ccnpany, paralIellng the Rallway.

Da,:rages amountlng to 40 pounds were pald by the

Federal Government ln L853, ln compensatlon for f loodlng

caused by the bulldlng of two d.ams at the outlet of Lake

St. Francls ln the v lc ln l ty of Val-1eyf1e1d". Thls landt

although f looded, st l11 remalns the property of the oltner.

In the 1950t s' the Departnent of Hlghways oom-

menced. the brrl ldlng of the MacDonaLd-Cartler FreelsByr

Hlghway 4OI, Jr. lst south of old No. 2 HlghweXr through the

farm. Thls cut o,ff about 40 aeres on the Lake front and

tn 1966, thls was sold to !lr. Raymond. Bock, then Llbera1

pl.P. for Lachlne, who operates a tral ler canp on the

property.

4?.

TWO FAIBFIELDS

by Barmon L. Bemmel

John Cameronr of near Klnloch Rannoch, Just

eaEt of Bannoch Moor ln Perthshlre, scotland', and' hls

second wlfe, E). lzabeth Ferguson, of hrnkeld"r Perthshlret

sal led f rom Fort Hl111arn, ln Perthshlre, ln I??J for

Amerlca, eyrd. to sett le on l-and"s that had been granted

to 91r John Johnson ln New York colcny by George III .

These lands were a)-ong the north slde of the Mohalrk

Blver ln Central New York coLony are now wlthln what

ere known as Montgomery, Ful-ton and Herklmer countlee

of New York state, west of schenectady toward ut lca.

The f l rst chl ld of th ls marlage was born

there ln New York colony ln L7?3, belng Anne cameron

who later marrled. Jacob Summers of Summerstown, son of

the El-d.er Jacob sunmers. fhe second. ch11d" of thls

marrlsge was another John canneron, a)-so born ln New

YorkCol.onyontheJohnsonGrantalcngtheMohawk.He

later marrled. the slster of Jacob summers, Ellzabeth

Sunmers.

JohnCanneronwesal ,oya]. lstarrdfoughtwlth

theBrl t lsh,arrdprobabtywlthBut lerrsorJessup|s

Eangers under Burgoyne. Flnally, at the end of the

Arnerlcan Revolutlon, John and ELlZabeth cameron and thelr

chl ld.ren came to Glengarry Ln L?83 or 1?84, and' sett led

neer rYhat ls now SunnerStown Statlon, on land's granted

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to them ae Unlted Emplre Loyaltsts. Thls orlglnal grant

has been ln thls sanne Cameron fam1ly unt1l a recent sale

of the old homeslte to a Doctor, of Cornwal l ' by l ts last

of ine?, George fan Douglas Cameronr now of St. Cather lnesr 0nt.

John Gemeron called thls home of h1s near Summers-

town 9tatlon, FAIRFIELD, and he l lved here untl l h1s death

ln L8O3. Hls sont John Cameron, somet lnes cal led rThe Blehf,

algo l1ved here and eo dld others of thls Cameron fanlIy.

Sonetlme, not long bcfore the orlglnal John Cameronr some-

tlnes cal1ed nThe l{ lset, d. led", he brought a son by a former

marrlage, over from Scotland.. Thla was Donald Canneron.

Donald Caneron ras the father of Angus Cameronr who ln turn

was the father of that famous John Angrrs rCerlboon Cameson,

who struck t t so r lch 1n the Br l t lsh Coluubla goldf le lds

known as rThe Carlboor. After the trac' lc death of dCarlboon

Cameront s daughter, Altce arld then the well-publlcLzed death

of hls wl fe, 8ophla Groves Cameron, nCarlbood nanled agaln

and bull t a moet elegant hone on {The Fronti l between Surnners-

town and Cornwall, and he also named thls placer rrFAInFfELDnt

after that hone-place nane of hls Great Grandfather, John

Cameton, i lThe W1sen.

ht , th ls ls not the second frFAfBFfELDtr f wr l te

about here, for l t nlght be terrned the thlrd fTFAIRFfELDtf ln

a str lct lnterpretatlon of chronology. The otherr and.

second, TTFAIRFfELDi was loeated on the Slr John Johnson lands

44.

ln l{erklrder County, New York State, at the l l t t le vl l Iage

of Falrf1e1d. fhls l l t t le vl l lage became fa:uous ln the

Lgth century for 1ts {FAIBFIELD ACADEmYI| located there.

John cameron of t tFAIBFrELDtt, Summerstown statlont

Glengarry, Yras my great, great, great grandfather on my

motherrs s lde of my faml ly, for she was El lzabeth I rene

Cameron of Fort Covlngton, New York. ! |y Remnel grandfathert

was Caleb Remnel from Hernlcker near Bergnerrstadtr on the

Rhlne not far f rom Cologne, Germany, a3d he and h1s wlfet

Henrletta Bever, mlgrated to New York State ln 181+8 and they

sett l*ed at the l l t t1e v l11age of $trat ford, on the banks of

EaSt Canada Creek. My father, Harmon L. Remmelr l f ,as borrr

there 1n Strat forc l ln 1852.

He later on wcnt to f iFAIRFIELD ACADEMYT at Falrf leld'

for h ls formal educat lon, and walked the ent l re dlstance frou

Startford. to the vl l lage of Falrf leld, each Monday mornlng

and stayed there al l week and came home on Frlday nlghtt thls

belng a d. lstance of some f l f teen nl Ies.

so, l t ls lnterest lng to note that both ny ancestors

sett led on lands ln the I ' lohawk Va1-Ley of Central New York.

The lands were the cornmon cnes orlglns.l- ly granted to S1r John

Johnson, by Klng George I I I ' ln the 18th Century. Andr there

ls the lnterestlng conJecture a.bout the na'ne fTFAIRFIELDdt whlch

le the name of a v1L1age there ln Herklner County, New York

to thls d.ay; wss the name of a very fannous nAcademyil there

45.

tn the 19th Century - "FA]RF]ELD ACADEMYII '

plus the posslble

connectl0n between these "FAIRFIELDS" and the name i lFAIRFIELD"

glven to the or lg1rra1 hone of John Caneron, "The |{ lsef i and"

the hone of h ls son, John Caneron, rThe Blch6, ln Glengarry

at Summerstown Statlon.

In al l ny research on thls subJectr there seems

only th ls sv,a11 i l threa.dt t of lnformat lon about how the Vl l ]age

of Falr f le ld, Ln i iew Yorkts l ierk lner County recelved 1ts

name. A11 the records of the establtshment of TTFAIRFIELD

ACADEii4Ytr anrl varloue hl"storles of l t , slmply state that l t

wag naned for t |e v l l lage and the v1l1age, |n turnt wes named

for the slte of a farm, of the sane nanne, of ari early sett lert

who bull t h1s hone there and naned lt t tFAInFfELD'r.

couLd thls ear ly set t ler have been John cameront

along wlth h1s wlfe Ell3abeth Ferguson, who later on reuloved

to Glengsrry a^nd named hLs farm there, fTFAIBFTELD'I? Thle

ls an lnterest lng connect. lon, for here 1t ls a l l ln the

famlly, wlth nelther branch knowlng a thlng about t |e other'

untl1 ny mother met mY father.

(Edl torr s note - Hr. Bemmel has been dolng conslderableresearch on the Glengerry Camerons, ertd the UEL sett lementln Glengarry, 1?83-1800. In correspondenoe, he ment lonsiBarkervl l l ; -Provlncla. l Park, ln Br l t lsh Colurnbla ' .hasbeen set up to conmemorate the gold nlners of the dCarlbootr

Gold Bush. The grave of John Angus rrcarlboo{ cameron ls1s promlnently on vlew and wel-l cared for, and meny ofnCailbooil Cameront s explolts sre noted on slgns placedat proper polnts of lnterest . r )

46.

A GLENGANSY SETTLEN

by Harrlet I . MaeKlnnon

The Glengarrv set t ler , Alexander Stewart , (whoee

self-vqrttten 11fe resum6 appears ln subsequent paragraphs

of th ls art lc le) , obtalned. a deed dated at Quebec, Dec. L2'

rc59, for 200 acres of land 1n Stewartr s Glen - south

halves lots 36 A, 3? ln the 9th Concesston' for the sum

of $240. Thls property was deeded to the two sons who

remalned ln the area. The west hal f was deeded to hls eont

Charles, an<l" on thls was the honssteed. The east 100 acres

was farned by hls son, Alexander, who bul1t a brlck hosle

that ls st l1I ln use.

sad to sayr nel ther of these farns ls 1n the hands

of descendante of the ol lglnaI ovtner. The land d1d remaln

ln famlly hands for exactly 100 years, as s great Srand-

daughter dlsposed of the west haLf of the property Ln 1959.

The east 100 acres was dlsposed of by a grartdson, Donald J.

Stewart a few years later '

Alexand.er stewart was also a second cousln of the

late l la.cl,eod Stewart, f lrst l t layor of Ottawa.

nAlexander Stewartr EIdert Lofal- SubJect

to her Soverelgn Fla.Jesty, Queen Vlctor lar Defender of

the Fa1th. In the year 1802 belng born ln the parleh

of l t lnglnlsh ln the fe le of Skye, Inverness-shlret

Seot land. Attalned a thorough knowledge of the

branches of l t terature requlslte for any comrnerclaL

47.

buslness, v lz; readlngt rr l t lngr Ar l thmet lct

book-keeplng, Engllsh Gramnar &c. Enlgrated,

to Canads 1n the year J-832. lriarrled to Flary

$tewart ln February, 1833. Belng blessed wlth

a faml ly of f lve aons and slx daughters; two

6ons and one daughter have gone before us, al l

the rest , three sons and f lve daughtersr are

st1L1 survlvors. Spent some t lne ln the

Western Townshlps cf Ontar lo. Sett led 1n

Glengarry; have had an actlve part ln quench-

lng the Bebel l lon of the years 1837 and 1838.

Belng actlvely engaged at the l l lndnll l at

Prescott the very day the rebels rtere conguered.

Bear lng or belng promoted. to the of f lce of a

Lleutenant ln the t+th Reglnent Glengarry

Volunteers l {111t1a, late John } lacKenzle ' Captaln.

Elected to the of f l -ce of Eldershlp ln the

Presbyterlan Church ln the year I8l+2. The

mlr i ls ter and elders rul lng (presldlng) over t f r ree

eongregatlons; namely Boxtrorough, Indlan Lands and

Kenyon, belng at that t lme under one pastoral

charge. The late Eevfd Dantel Clark.

Recelved from the Board of Educatlon fron

t lne to t lne, cert l f lcates of qual l f lcat lons es

Publ lc Teacher Ln whlch capacl ty I of f lc lated

l+9.

(or served) for the perlod- of twelve years ln dlfferent

sectlons ln the fownehlp cf Kenyon. Exhausted rl th

excesslve lebour servlngi to glve Justlce to ny

puplls, numberlng fron f l f ty to slxty ln genera1.

I became Superarnuated (or belng worn out) accordlng

to the regulatlon of the Eduoatlon Departcient, made

an app1lcat1on for Penslon whlch granted as Super-

annuated lleacher fron the year of our Lord. one thou-

sand. and elght hundred seventy-seven. Organlzed the

flrst Sabbath Sohool 1n Drxrve6an ln the year of our

Lord. one thousand elght hundred and forty-slxr

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