ag rep | agricultural representative |
ANB | American National Biography |
Anglin | Anglin, R.W., “Glengarrians at Queen’s,” The Queen’s Review, 32:3 (March 1958) Reprinted in Glengarry Life (1991) |
AO | Archives of Ontario |
AO-F | Archives of Ontario–Papers of Col. Alexander Fraser, former archivist of Ontario |
AO-RRM | Archives of Ontario–Papers of R. R. (Big Rory) McLennan |
AO-SC | Archives of Ontario–Surrogate Court records. SDG wills on microfilm |
AO-TP | Archives of Ontario–Township Papers,[AO-TP (2:7 Lochiel) means Township Papers for Lot 2, 7th Concession Lochiel Twp] |
Apple Hill (1982) | 1882 Apple Hill 1982: 100 Years of Good Will (1982) |
Armstrong F. H. | Armstrong, Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology (revised ed., 1985) |
ASC Alexandria scrap book. | Compiled by an unknown person or persons apparently in the Alexandria area. Ewan Ross borrowed the original from Sister Mary Clair MacDonald (see in this dictionary) in 1978, and photocopied it into two volumes now in present author’s collection, designated here i and ii, numbering his pages as used herein. |
BCARS | British Columbia Archives |
Belden | Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Ontario.(1879) Page numbers refer to 1972 reprint by Cumming. |
Bériault | Hélène Bériault, Les Soeurs de Sainte-Croix dans la montée avec les Franco-Ontariens (1989) |
Bibliography… | Royce MacGillivray,Bibliography of Glengarry County (Glengarry Historical Society, 1996) |
Biesenthal | L. Biesenthal and others Ontario’s Ag Reps: the Story of the Agricultural Representative and Extension Branches 1907-1982 (1991) |
Bishop | Olga B. Bishop, Bibliography of Ontario History 1867-1976, 2 vols. (1980) |
BLC | British Library printed catalogue |
Boase | Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography, 6 vols. (1892-1921) |
Boss | W. Boss & W.J. Patterson, Up the Glens: Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders [regiment] (1995) |
Brault | Lucien Brault, Histoire des Comtés Unis de Prescott et Russell (1965) |
Bumsted | J. M. Bumsted, Dictionary of Manitoba Biography (1999) |
Butternuts | Elsie MacMillan, Mary MacMillan Beaton, and Hazel MacMillan Huckvale, Butternuts and Maple Sugar: Some History of the Old 14th of Lancaster Township, Glengarry County, Ontario (5th Concession Lochiel) (1982) |
Campbell (1983) | R. B. Campbell, The Campbells and Other Glengarry-Stormont and Harrington Pioneers (1983) |
Campbell (1986) | R. B. (Bob) Campbell and Douglas McDermid, The Kennedys-MacDiarmids McDermids-Munros and Other Glengarry-Stormont Pioneers (1986) |
Campbell (1990) | R. B. (Bob) Campbell, Linda Tannis, and Harold Stewart, The MacDougalls, MacEwens, Stewarts, Robertsons. Munroes and Other Glengarry-Stormont Pioneers (1990) |
Canniff | William Canniff, The Medical Profession in Upper Canada 1783-1850 … Including Some Brief Biographies (1894, repr. 1980) |
CCF | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (political party) |
CEF | Canadian Expeditionary Force |
Centenary 1912 | St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Williamstown, Report of Centenary Celebration … 1912 (1916) |
CF | Cornwall Freeholder |
Chadwick E. | M. Chadwick, Ontarian Families, 2 vols. (1894, repr. 1970) |
Charlesworth | Hector Charlesworth, ed., A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography (1919), Vol. 3 (see Rose i and ii) |
Chevrier | Bernard Chevrier, Tales of Courage: Stories from Eastern Ontario’s Remarkable Past (2002) |
Chicago 1893 | Report of the Ontario Commissioner to the World’s Columbian Exposition [also known as the Chicago World’s Fair], Chicago … 1893. Ontario. Sessional Papers, Vol. 26, Pt 10 (1894) |
Choquette | Robert Choquette, De la controverse à la concorde: L’Église d’Alexandria-Cornwall (1990) |
CHR | Canadian Historical Review |
Clément | Henri Clément, L’Orignal 1876-1976 (1977) |
CNR | Canadian National Railway |
Cochrane | William Cochrane, The Canadian Album: Men of Canada, 5 vols. (1891-1896) |
CP | Canadian Press |
CPR | Canadian Pacific Railway |
Croil (1861) | James Croil, Dundas; or, a Sketch of Canadian History (1861) |
Croil (1868) | James Croil, A Historical and Statistical Report of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in Connection with the Church of Scotland, 2nd edn (1868) |
Cruikshank (1925) | E. A. Cruikshank, “A Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonell, of Glengarry House, the First Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada,” Ontario Historical Society, Papers & Records, 22 (1925) 20-59 |
Cruikshank | E.A. Cruikshank & G.K. Watt, The King’s Royal Regiment of New York (1984) |
DAB | Dictionary of American Biography |
Dale | Clare A. Dale, “Whose Servant I Am”: Speakers of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario (1992) |
DCB | Dictionary of Canadian Biography |
DNB | Dictionary of National Biography [Great Britain] |
Domesday Book | Manuscript volume of Ontario land grants, by concession and lot, formerly in Patents Office, Queen’s Park, now in Crown Land Registry Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough |
DPQ | Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec 1792-1992 (1993) |
DTL | Down the Lane [column in Standard Freeholder] |
Dumbrille (1954) | Dorothy Dumbrille, Up and Down the Glens (1954) |
Dumbrille (1956) | Dorothy Dumbrille, Braggart in My Step (1956) |
Elliott | Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario: Stormont. Dundas. Glengarry Prescott. Russell. general editor Bruce S. Elliott. Ontario Genealogical Society, 1987 |
FH | Freeholder [Cornwall newspaper] |
Fleming | Rae Fleming, ed., The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry (1994) |
Flynn | L. J. Flynn, Built on a Rock: the Story of the Roman Catholic Church in Kingston 1826-1976 (1976) |
Fobert | Rolland Clarence Fobert, Faith Is Our Strength: The Story of St. Columban’s Parish (1994) |
Forman | Debra Forman, ed., Legislators and Legislatures of Ontario: A Reference Guide, 4 vols. (1984-) |
Fraser (1976) | Alex W. Fraser, Gravestones of Glengarry, 4 vols. (1976-2008) |
Fraser (1985) | Alex W. Fraser, 1001 Name Index of Descendants of John Cameron ‘the Wise’ (1985) |
Fraser (1994) | Alex W. Fraser and Rhoda Ross, Glengarry Stormont Obits., Vol. I (1994) |
Fraser (1890) | John Fraser, Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches (1890) |
Fraser (1959) | R. J. Fraser, As Others See Us: Scots of the Seaway Valley (1959) |
Fryer & Smy | M.B. Fryer & W.A. Smy, Rolls of the Provincial (Loyalist) Corps (1981) |
Gaudet | A. Gaudet, Apple Hill and the Story of Its Beginning (1979) |
GC | Glengarry, Glengarry County |
GHS | Glengarry Historical Society |
Gleaner | Gleaner [Huntingdon County, Quebec, newspaper] |
GN | Glengarry News |
GN supplement 1903 | Glengarry News, special Christmas historical supplement, 1903 |
Gold & Galena | Linda E. T. MacDonald and Lynette R. Bleiler, Gold & Galena: A History of the Mayo District (Mayo, Yukon, 1999) |
Grant (1974) | Rhodes Grant,(i) The Story of Martintown: a Pioneer Village (1974) |
Grant (1975) | Rhodes Grant,(iii) Centennial: 1875 1975 2075: a Story of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Martintown (1975) |
Grant (1976) | Rhodes Grant,(ii) Horse and Buggy Days in Martintown 1900-1940 (1976) |
Green | Jennifer Green and others, Stone Buildings of North Glengarry/Bâtiments de pierre de Glengarry Nord (North Glengarry Heritage Group/Patrimoine de Glengarry Nord, 2002) |
Harkness | John Graham Harkness, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry: A History (1946) |
Harper | Jennifer Harper, ed., City Work at Country Prices: The Portrait Photographs of Duncan Donovan (1977) |
Hartley | Grace L. Hartley, Scott (1961) [family history] |
HBC | Hudson’s Bay Company |
HHCT | Heritage Highlights of Cornwall Township (1984) |
Hodgins | Bruce W. Hodgins, John Sandfield Macdonald (1971) |
Holstein | Glengarry Holstein Club: Historical Review–60 Years–1995 (1995) |
Hurti | The Canadian Encyclopedia (Hurtig Publishers), 2nd edn. |
Innis | Harold Innis, ed., The Dairy Industry in Canada (1937) |
James | R. Warren James, John Rae Political Economist, 2 vols. (1965) |
Johnson (1968) | J. K. Johnson, ed., The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 (1968) |
Johnson (1989) | J. K. Johnson, Becoming Prominent: Regional Leadership in Upper Canada (1989) |
JP | Justice of the Peace |
KAS | Kenyon Agricultural Society 100 Years (1989) |
Kenyon Church Report | Annual printed report of Kenyon Presbyterian Church, Dunvegan; includes lists of baptisms, marriages, deaths |
KRRNY | King’s Royal Regiment of New York |
Laing | Bonnie Laing, A Hundred Thousand Welcomes: 50 Years of the Glengarry Highland Games (1997) |
Ladell | John L. Ladell, They Left Their Mark: Surveyors and Their Role in the Settlement of Ontario (1993) |
Lewis | Roderick Lewis, Centennial Edition of a History of the Electoral Districts, Legislatures and Ministries of the Province of Ontario (1968) |
LLC | Loyalist Lineages of Canada 1783-1983 (1984) |
Lochinvar diary | Lochinvar Journal: Deaths, Births, Marriages by Donald S. Fraser, ed. Alex W. Fraser (1991) |
Lochinvar to Skye | Madeleine McCrimmon and Donaldson R. MacLeod, Lochinvar to Skye: a History of the Areas along the Roads East and West of McCrimmon (1988) |
Lovell 1857 | Thomas B. & Emily S. Wilson, Directory of the Province of Ontario 1857 [a re-arrangement of Lovell’s Canada Directory of 1857] (1987) |
McCormicks | Thelma McDonald and Mary Devine, A Genealogy of the McCormicks of Glengarry (1984) |
McCrimmon | Madeleine McCrimmon, 1849-1999 Lochiel Free Church of Scotland Canada Presbyterian Church Kirk Hill United Church of Canada (1998) |
Macdonald (1983) | Eugene A. Macdonald, St. Finnan’s Parish: the First 150 Years (1983) |
Macdonald (1987) | Eugene A. Macdonald, Some of the Sandfields: the Story of One Family (1987) |
Macdonald & Macdonald | A. Macdonald and A. Macdonald, The Clan Donald, 3 vols. (Inverness, Scotland, 1896-1904) |
Macdonell | J. A. Macdonell (Greenfield), Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada (1893, 1984) |
MacGillivray | Royce MacGillivray & Ewan Ross, A History of Glengarry (1979) |
Mackilligin | R. G. W. Mackilligin, The Followers of Saint Fillan: a History of the McKillican McKilligan and McKilligin Families (1985) |
MacKinnon | Alan Douglas MacKinnon, The Story of Vankleek Hill and the Surrounding Area, Vol. I (1979) |
McLean | Marianne McLean, The People of Glengarry: Highlanders in Transition (1991) |
MacLeods (1972) | The MacLeods of Glengarry: the Genealogy of a Clan (1972) (i) |
MacLeods (1993) | The MacLeods of Glengarry: the Genealogy of a Clan (revised edn., ed. Madeleine McCrimmon,1993) (ii) |
MacMaster | Marion MacMaster, ed., The Schools of the Glens (1992) |
MacMillan (1993) | Donald N. MacMillan, Historical Sketch of Kenyon Presbyterian Church Dunvegan, second edn. (1993) |
MacMillan (1984) | Donald N. MacMillan, The Kirk in Glengarry (1984) |
MacMillan | Joan MacMillan and others, Glengarry’s Game: 75 Years of Soccer in Glengarry (1999) |
MacMillan diary | Diary of Angus (Deacon) MacMillan (manuscript in NAC) |
MacPhee | Sybil MacPhee, Elizabeth MacGillivray and Marion MacLeod, The Glengarry School of Piping and Drumming (1992) |
Marin | Clive and Frances Marin, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry 1945-1978 (1982) |
Maxville (1967) | History of Maxville and the Community (1967) |
Maxville (1991) | Maxville: Its Centennial Story 1991 (1991) |
MDict | The MacMillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 4th edn |
Ménard | Oscar Ménard, “My Memories”: Village of Lancaster 1887. 1987 (1987?) |
MLA | Member of the Legislative Assembly [Provincial] |
Montgomery | David L. Montgomery, Our Roxborough Connection (1989) |
Morgan | Henry James Morgan, The Canadian Men and Women of the Time (1898, 2nd ed., 1912) |
Mowat | Ruth D. Mowat, All’s Fair: the Story of Ontario’s Oldest Fair and Its Home Williamstown (1976) |
MP | Member of Parliament [Federal] |
NAC | National Archives of Canada, (now Library and Archives Canada) |
Neatby | Hilda Neatby, F.W. Gibson, R. Graham, Queen’s University, 2 vols. (1978, 1983) |
NL | National Library of Canada, (now Library and Archives Canada) |
NUC | The National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 imprints |
NWC | North West Company |
OAC | Ontario Agricultural College |
ODict | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Old Boys 1906 | Souvenir of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Commemorating Old Boys’ Reunion at Cornwall, Ontario August 11-15, 1906 (1906) |
Old Boys 1926 | Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry Old Boys’ Re-Union: Cornwall, Ontario … 1926: Official Souvenir Booklet (1926) |
OLS | Annual Report of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors |
Ostrom | Clarence Ostrom’s private history of Alexandria; present author’s pagination |
Paradis | Norma L. Paradis, The Clan McRae: A Canadian Ceilidh (1977) |
Parker (1911) | C. W. Parker, Who’s Who in Western Canada … Volume I (1911) |
Parker (1912) | C. W. Parker, Who’s Who and Why … Western Canada: Volume 2 (1912) |
Parker (1992) | Neil Parker, ed., 125 Fournier: 1867-1992 (1992) |
Pringle | J. F. Pringle, Lunenburgh or the Old Eastern District (1890) |
Purcell 1887 | Text of proceedings at the Cornwall trial (1888) re Glengarry County federal election of 1887, and other materials relating to the trial, from Purcell v. Kennedy, in files of Supreme Court of Canada. |
QAR | Queen’s Alumni Review [title varies over the years] |
QF | Quote From this source unless otherwise attributed, or noted as first, second,… |
Rattray | W. J. Rattray, The Scot in British North America, 4 vols. (1880-1884) |
Rayside | David M. Rayside, A Small Town in Modern Times: Alexandria, Ontario (1991) |
Reid | Vera C. Reid, Our Family Roots (1981?) |
Reid (1973) | William D. Reid, The Loyalists in Ontario: the Sons and Daughters (1973) |
Reid (1980) | William D. Reid, Death Notices of Ontario (1980, 1997) |
Reid (1980a) | William D. Reid, Marriage Notices of Ontario (1980) |
Rose (1886) | G. M. Rose,(i) A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, Vol. I (1886) |
Rose (1888) | G. M. Rose,(ii) smith (1888) |
Ross | Ewan Ross, Lancaster Township and Village (1983) |
Ross & Cameron | Ewan Ross & G. I. D. Cameron, Williamstown High School: A History (1978) |
Ross & Fraser | Rhoda Ross; Alex W. Fraser, The McNaughtons of Glengarry County, 4 vol. (2008) |
Rutley | Rosemary Rutley, Of Curds and Whey: A History of the Cheese Factories in Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry (2005) |
St. Alexander CR | St. Alexander Parish Lochiel, ed. Duncan (Darby) MacDonald, 2 vols. (2000). Parish register. |
St. Andrew’s CR | Duncan (Darby) MacDonald, ed., parish register of St. Andrew’s Parish, St. Andrew’s West, published beginning with the volume St. Andrews R. C. Parish 1804-1856: Births, Deaths Marriages (1984) |
St. Columba CR | Lochiel 1820/1884: Parish Register, ed. Duncan W. MacDonald (1987). Register of St. Columba Presbyterian Church, Kirk Hill. |
St. Finnan’s CR | Alex W. Fraser, Roots Glengarry Co-ordinator, ed., St. Finnan’s Church Records Name Index 1836-1883 (1986) |
Scott (1935) | W. L. Scott, (m) “The Macdonells of Leek, Collachie and Aberchalder,” Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Report 1934-1935, pp. 22-32 |
Scott (1937) | W. L. Scott, (u) “A U.E. Loyalist Family [ Macdonells of Leek, Collachie and Aberchalder],” Ontario Historical Society, Papers & Records 32 (1937) pp. 140-170 |
Scott (1939) | W. L. Scott,(i) “Glengarry’s Representatives in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada,” [Part 1 of 2] Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Report 1938-39 pp. 19-37 |
Scott (1940) | W. L. Scott,(ii) “Glengarry’s Representatives in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada,” [Part 2 of 2] Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Report 1939-40 pp. 27-42 |
Scullion | Evelyn M-M Scullion, The Frasers of Fraserfield and Their Related Families (2002), being the Sandfield Macdonald Connection Series, Book I |
SDG | Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, (United Counties of) |
Second Report | Second Report of the Bureau of Archives for the Province of Ontario … 1904 (Toronto, 1905) |
Sellar | Robert Sellar, The History of the County of Huntingdon and of the Seigniories of Chateauguay and Beauharnois (1888). The 1963 reprint has some material not in the 1888 edition |
Senior | Elinor Kyte Senior, From Royal Township to Industrial City: Cornwall: 1784-1984 (1983) |
SFH | Standard-Freeholder [Cornwall newspaper] |
Sinclair | Charles R. Sinclair, Stories from the Memory of Charles R. Sinclair of Glengarry, ed. Clark Barrett (1970) |
Sinnsearachd | Sinnsearachd: Genealogy/Forefathers (1990), published by Duncan (Darby) MacDonald. [materials on the history of the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall] |
Stiles | H.M. Stiles, Official History of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board (1920) |
Story | Norah Story, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature (1967, 1968) |
Symington | Ann Symington, Doctors in Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Counties (1997) |
Thomas | C. Thomas, History of the Counties of Argenteuil, Que., and Prescott, Ont. (1896) |
True Witness | True Witness and Catholic Chronicle [newspaper] |
UEL | United Empire Loyalist, U. E. Loyalist(s) |
UE List | The Old United Empire Loyalists List (1984, reprint of 1885 edn. called The Centennial …) |
UTA | University of Toronto Archives |
Verity | Valerie Verity, A Developmental History of the Macdonell-Williamson House and Lands, called on cover The Macdonell-Williamson House: National Historic Site (1998) |
Villeneuve | Rudolph Villeneuve (Mgr), One Hundred Thousand Welcomes: Ceud Mile Failte: the Story of the Diocese of Alexandria Cornwall, Ontario: 1890-1990 (1990) |
VKHR | Review [Vankleek Hill newspaper] |
Wallace | “A Biographical Dictionary of the Nor’westers,” on pp. 425-505 of W. Stewart Wallace’s Documents Relating to the North West Company (1934) |
Watters | R. E. Watters, A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Materials 1628-1960, 2nd edn. (1972)|
|Whyte|Donald Whyte, A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada before Confederation (1986, and vol. 2, 1995) |
Wilson | Thomas B. Wilson, Ontario Marriage Notices (1982) |
Witness | Witness, Montreal Witness, Montreal Daily Witness [newspaper] |
Wood | Gertrude Wood’s letters to Ewan Ross, copies in present author’s collection |
Woodburn | The City of Ottawa and Central Canada Directory (Ottawa, A. S. Woodburn, 1876) [includes Glengarry County] |
Worrall | Lily Worrall, ed., Avonmore (1985) |
Williamstown 200 | Two Hundred Years of Sharing: A Bi-Centennial Sketch of Williamstown, Ontario (1983) |
WSC | Williamstown scrap book. Collection of disbound scrapbook pages from the Williamstown-area owned by the present author, who has assigned the page numbers used |